Understanding the Early Years - Early Childhood Development in South Eastman, Manitoba - October 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 Ales Morga, the community research coordinator for South Eastman, who provided considerable assistance with this report. Without her assistance, the 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.