The talk, “Positive Parenting and Positive Development in Children” will take place Wednesday, Nov. 17, from noon to 1pm at the Executive Learning Centre, X106 Seymour Schulich Building, Keele campus. A reception will follow, from 1 to 2pm at the LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research. Everyone is welcome to attend, but as space is limited, it is requested that you RSVP for both the talk and the reception at owhchair@yorku.ca.

Right: Marc Bornstein

Armed with the knowledge that things do not always go well in child development, policy-makers, educators and parents share the laudable and well-intentioned goal to develop preventions, interventions and remediations in the service of children, says Bornstein. “But treatment is not just fixing what is broken; it is also nurturing what is best. My talk takes a ‘positive youth development’ perspective as its starting point.”

In the first part of the talk, Bornstein will look to the literature to define prominent positive characteristics and values in children. In the second part, he will address the important goal of how children can be best helped to achieve those positive characteristics and values.

“To do this, I will show how parents, who are children’s primary advocates and their front-line defence, are the corps most available and in the greatest number to lobby and labour for children,” says Bornstein. “I discuss direct effects of parents on children as well as indirect effects. I focus on both childhood and adolescence and incorporate new work on brain development. Finally, I discuss a specificity principle that may guide future thinking and action in positive child development.”

As a researcher, Bronstein has received numerous awards for his research from such organizations as the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, the American Psychological Association, the National Institutes of Health, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the American Mensa Education & Research Foundation. In 2008, he was recognized by the Society for Research in Child Development for his efforts in the international and cross-cultural realm with its Distinguished International Contributions to Child Development Award.

Bornstein has been a faculty member at Princeton University and New 91��ɫ, and a visiting scientist, fellow and professor at more than eight universities and research institutes, including the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, University College London, Université René Descartes in Paris, the University of Tokyo and the Sorbonne.

In addition to hundreds of scientific papers, he is co-author of the widely used book series and editor of other book series, including The Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology, Monographs in Parenting and Handbook of Parenting. He is the founding editor of and has written several children's books.

Bornstein is also co-editor of a new book that 91��ɫ psychology Professor Maria Legerstee is publishing with University of Toronto Professor David Haley. The book, , will be released later this year by Guilford Press.

Bornstein’s research interests include the origins, status and development of psychological constructs, structures, functions and processes in the first two years of life; the effect of child characteristics and activities on parents; and the meaning of variations in parenting and in the family across different socio-demographic and cultural groups.

The talk is joint venture hosted by the LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research, Echo’s Ontario Women’s Health Council Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research and The Lillian & Don Wright Foundation.

For more information, visit the LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research website. For more information on the LaMarsh Speaker Series, visit the Faculty of Health website.

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Using peer-reviewed 91��ɫ research, students working within the KMb Unit developed 28 new summaries over the summer. This brings the existing searchable of ResearchSnapshots to over 120 summaries.

The KMb Unit focused on three priorities identified by one of 91��ɫ’s leading partners, the United Way of 91��ɫ Region (UWYR).

The are:

• Helping youth grow up strong.
• Enabling individuals and families to achieve economic independence.
• Improving the well-being of individuals and communities.

These research summaries provide the United Way and its network of member agencies with an important foundation for decision making and policy setting.

“Having access to relevant research strengthens UWYR’s capacity to make evidence-based decisions, and informs the planning and delivery of our strategic investments in communities of rapid growth,” says Daniele Zanotti, CEO of the UWYR.

This is the third year that the KMb Unit has developed ResearchSnapshots based on 91��ɫ research, and the project has attracted notice and enthusiasm among the wider community.

“I was able to include the research summary of the 91��ɫ Region Infrastructure project in my PowerPoint presentation,” says Joanna French, a researcher for the . “It provided a succinct, pertinent and accessible way to introduce academic research into my presentation.”

Visit Knowledge Mobilization’s website for more information about how the unit works with 91��ɫ researchers, community agencies, government and the private sector.

Submitted by Michael Johnny, manager of 91��ɫ’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit

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Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri has received a Walter L. Gordon Research Fellowship for 2010-2011.

The prestigious award, periodically presented by 91��ɫ to recognized scholars at the University to complete ongoing outstanding and innovative research, will allow her to devote the coming year to completing Financial Markets in Crisis: ABCP, the Made in Canada Solution and the Future of Canadian Capital Markets.

Right: Poonam Puri

"Professor Puri is greatly admired for her teaching and scholarship as well as the interesting reform and advisory work she has done for securities commissions, self-regulatory organizations, governments and bilateral agencies," said Osgoode Interim Dean Jinyan Li. "This fellowship recognizes her knowledge and expertise and will provide her with the time to complete her latest book."

Puri is among Canada’s most respected researchers on corporate law, securities law, corporate governance, and corporate and white-collar crime. Appointed to 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997, she has co-authored or edited three books and written numerous articles and reports. Her rigorous research is firmly grounded in the real-time of policy-making, rendering her expertise widely requested by Canadian and international governments and regulators, including Industry Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission, the Senate of Canada, the Wise Persons’ Committee on Securities Regulation and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group.

“Professor Puri’s timely proposal addresses the recent global financial upheaval and the asset-backed commercial paper crisis. It promises to provide insight about both global and Canadian banking practices,” said David Dewitt, 91��ɫ's associate vice-president research (social sciences & humanities), and chair of the Walter L. Gordon Research Fellowship selection committee. “Her book will make a valuable contribution to existing literature on Canadian financial markets. The selection committee was impressed by her proposal’s interdisciplinarity, innovative thinking, clarity and logic.”

The fellowship, named in honour of the late Walter L. Gordon, former chancellor of 91��ɫ, provides researchers with the opportunity to complete works or projects that require a significant amount of time by relieving them of teaching and other University responsibilities.

"The selection committee was also impressed by the quality of each of the applicants and the significant research ideas brought forward," said Dewitt. “Every one of them deserved funding. The applicant pool’s strength speaks to 91��ɫ’s expanding research culture and the important recognition the fellowship provides to support that leading-edge research."

By Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.

Republished courtesy of YFile– 91��ɫ’s daily e-bulletin.

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