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 Lori Walker, the community research coordinator for Niagara Falls, and Todd Guindon, data and mapping consultant for Niagara Falls, who provided considerable assistance with this report. Without their 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.