Description
This conference and workshop event will highlight research-practice efforts to support positive social and emotional development in refugee and newcomer children in Canada and beyond.
The conference will share results from an international research partnership that assessed an intervention to support the development of Rohingya children whose family’s fled genocide in Myanmar. The children and their families live in one of the largest refugee camps in the world, located in Bangladesh hosting close to 1 million Rohingya refugees. The focus of the conference also extends beyond these results to synthesize and discuss next steps for policy efforts to support refugee and newcomer health and flourishing.
The conference, Pathways to Kindness: Promoting Refugee and Newcomer Children’s Health and Flourishing, will be held at the University of Toronto Mississauga from August 22 to August 24, to coincide with the Rohingya Genocide Commemoration Day, August 25, 2017.
The conference will include presentations from academic researchers, humanitarian practitioners and refugee community members. Several distinguished guests, including UN Ambassador Bob Rae, UNHCR EU Representative Jean-Nicolas Beuze and Alexander Humboldt Professor Dr. Tina Malti, will share their insights on Canada’s role in the global refugee crisis and ways to mobilize research to improve refugee children’s health and flourishing.
The aims of the Pathways to Kindness Conference are to:
- Bring together different communities, including members of the Rohingya community, community advocates, and those from humanitarian, policy, and research sectors who have an interest in supporting refugee and newcomer communities.
- Raise awareness of cutting-edge research findings that can inform local and international refugee and newcomer policy efforts.
- Engage diverse perspectives to design new supportive activities that can be scaled up to support refugee educational and mental health programming nationally and globally.
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Conference Contact
If you have any questions, please contact the Conference Organizer, Joy Chang, at ccdmp@utoronto.ca
