Alberta Network for Safe & Healthy Children

ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES

• For information about health services in Alberta
  www.albertahealthservices.ca
• For specific information related to parenting
  www.albertahealthservices.ca/parents.asp

ALBERTA RESOURCES

• Alberta Children and Youth Services
• Alberta Family and Community Support Services
• Alberta Home Visitation Network Association
• Alberta Native Friendship Centres Association
• Alberta Perinatal Health Program
• Health Link Alberta
• La Leche League Alberta

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

• BC Council for Families
• Prevent SBS British Columbia
• Women and Children's Hospitals of Buffalo

GENERAL INTEREST

• Attachment Across Cultures 
• BC Council for Families
•  Canadian Parents
• Nurturing Children [pdf]

CHILD DEVELOPMENT

• Encyclopedia on Child Development 

DISCIPLINE

• Positive Discipline – what is it and how to do it
• Canadian Parents

FATHERS

• Canadian Father Involvement Initiative
• DIY Father

FAMILY VIOLENCE

• Helping Children Thrive: Supporting Woman Abuse Survivors as Mothers
• Health Canada – National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
• Spousal Violence (2011) Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile. Ottawa, ON: Canada Centre for Justice Statistics

CHILDREN EXPOSED TO FAMILY VIOLENCE

• Baker L.L., Jaffe P.G., & Berkowitz S.J. Berkman M. (2002). Children Exposed to Violence: A Handbook for Police Trainers to Increase Understanding and Improve Community Responses
• Baker L.L., Jaffe P.G., Moore K.J. (2001). Understanding the Effects of Domestic Violence: A Handbook for Early Childhood Educators
• Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (2003), Public Health Agency of Canada
• Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (2008), Public Health Agency of Canada
• Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
• Child Trauma Academy
• Hanson R., Self-Brown S, Fricker-Elhai A.E, Kilpatrick D.G., Saunders  B.E,. and  Resnick S.H. The Relations Between Family Environment and Violence Exposure Among Youth: Findings From the National Survey of Adolescents; Child Maltreat 2006; 11; 3
• Hilton N.Z. (1992) Battered Women’s Concerns about Their Children Witnessing Wife Assault. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol.7.
• LaPlante D, Barr R, Brunet A, Galbaud Du Fort G,Meaney M, Saucier J-F, Zelazo P, and King S., Journal of Pediatric Research; Stress During Pregnancy Affects General Intellectual and Language Functioning in Human Toddlers
• Middlebrooks JS, Audage NC. The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; 2008.
• National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
• Perry, B.D. (1997). Incubated in Terror: Neurodevelopmental Factors in the ‘Cycle of Violence.’ In J. Osofsky (ed.),Children, Youth and Violence: The Search for Solutions. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 124- 148.
• Petersen R, Gazmararian J, Spitz A, Rowley D et al. Violence and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a review of the literature and directions for further research. Am J Prev Med 1997;13(5):366-73.
• Public Health Agency of Canada Fact Sheets