Webinar Series
Discover exciting webinars that are sure to be valuable and perfect for parents like you!
The Science behind the ATTACH™ Parenting Program
The ATTACH™ Intervention: An Introduction and Perspectives from ATTACH™ Parents
November 25, 2022
This webinar features Nicole Letourneau and introduces the ATTACH™ program, which supports parents in creating secure attachments with their children. Additionally, it features ATTACH™ parents on their perspectives on and experiences with the ATTACH™ program.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Mitigating the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Reduce Early Childhood Trauma
March 25, 2022
This webinar features Lubna Anis introduces the importance of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their consequences. It explores how to mitigate the effects of ACEs to reduce early childhood trauma.
Measuring the Immune System: Blood sample collection strategies and gene expression and epigenetic markers
April 30, 2021
The webinar features Katie Birnie, Sarah Merrill, and Kharah Ross. It covered strategies for pain and distress-free blood sample collection in children, an introduction to the immune system and gene expression, and the ATTACH intervention’s impact on children’s epigenetics.
Community Agency Presentations
The Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) Parenting Program: Promising Findings and Future Plans
November 26, 2021
This webinar features Nicole Letourneau and discusses the foundations for the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) Parenting Program, the evaluation of the ATTACH™ program, and future work.
Development and health: Toxic stress, parent-child relationships and attachment
March 26, 2021
This webinar features Nicole Letourneau. It focuses on parent-infant relationship quality, including concepts like attachment, reflective function, and serve-and-return interactions. It explains how this relationship influences child health and development, and how it can buffer the negative effects of toxic stressors such as parental depression, addictions, domestic violence, and low income.
Conducting Research
Trauma Informed Approach to Research
January 27, 2023
This webinar features Caroline Piotrowski and introduces trauma informed approaches to research. It outlines the importance of this approach, the basic principles, the approach in action, and discussion of the design and implementation of this approach in research protocols.
Qualitative Methods and Normalization Process Theory
April 29, 2022
This webinar features Kendra Nixon, Nicole Letourneau and Lubna Anis. They introduce qualitative research and methods, normalization process theory, and the qualitative arm of the ATTACH Parenting Program™.
Patient Engagement
February 26, 2021
This webinar features Paul Fairie and discussed patient engagement in research. It covers patient-orientated research, meaningful engagement with patients as partners, and Alberta SPOR (Strategy for Patient Orientated Research) Support Unit.
The State of the Art and Science of Research Coproduction
October 28, 2022
This webinar features Ian Graham and introduces Research Coproduction – also known as Integrated Knowledge Translation. The webinar includes a review of the concepts of research coproduction and presents evidence supporting the value of research coproduction.
Integrated Knowledge Translation: Using a Practical Approach to Identify and Engage Knowledge Users
October 29, 2021
This webinar features Laura McAlpine and Gabrielle Zimmermann. The webinar provides a brief overview of knowledge translation and integrated knowledge translation. Additionally, it walks through some key steps to identify knowledge users, how to engage with knowledge users, and how to create an engagement plan.
Overview of Implementation Science and Innovative Clinical Trials
January 29, 2021
This webinar features Ian Graham and gives an overview of Implementation Science. It outlines knowledge translation, end-of-project knowledge translation, integrated knowledge translation, and briefly introduces implementation science.
Policies and Principles
Principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP) for work with Indigenous peoples
July 30, 2021
This webinar features Kharah Ross and introduces First Nations Principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP) for works with Indigenous peoples. It discusses the origins of OCAP, the principles of OCAP, and the goals of OCAP to ensure respectful and collaborative data collection with First Nations communities.
Policy within the Community Health Context: The COVID-19 Example
June 25, 2021
This webinar features Carrie Collier and reviews policy within the communitity health context using COVID-19 as an example. It identifies and defines opportunities for policy, reviews Alberta’s COVID-19 response as an example, followed by a discussed at the end.