Understanding the Early Years - Early Childhood Development in Abbotsford, British Columbia - August 2003
Acknowledgements
This report was prepared by J. Douglas Willms, with assistance from Shawn Dalton and Norman Daoust. The author is grateful to Liz Parkin and Satya Brink for comments on drafts of this report, and to other staff at the Applied Research Branch who assisted with the UEY study. The author is pleased to acknowledge Barbara Goyer, the community research coordinator for Abbotsford, who provided considerable assistance with this report. Special thanks to the project sponsors, United Way of the Fraser Valley, and Abbotsford School District 34, the community coalition, and the Abbotsford Child and Youth Committee. Without their assistance, this study would not have been possible. The author would also like to thank Magdalena Janus for her feedback on the EDI analysis. Magdalena Janus, along with Dan Offord and the Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk, developed the EDI described in the first chapter of this report.
