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Cindy Blackstock is the Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, an Atkinson Charitable Foundation Fellow and has recently joined the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Blackstock will share her advice and knowledge on how every person can make a difference in the lives of thousands of First Nations children in under two minutes.

A small percentage (10 to 15%) of typically developing children exhibit stable fear responses and wariness to unfamiliar and familiar stimuli from infancy through childhood. These children are cautious and reticent in social interactions and have been characterized as temperamentally shy and socially withdrawn. In a series of studies over the last 15 years, we have shown that temperamentally shy children display a number of distinct psychophysiological responses at rest and in response to social challenges. These patterns are evidenced across a range of biological measures and contexts, making some of these children vulnerable to anxiety and depression.

On November 10, 2010, The Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology and the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development hosted a colloquium featuring Louis Schmidt, PhD, Director, Child Emotion Laboratory, Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University. Dr. Schmidt focussed on the origins, development course and outcomes of this temperamental style. He discussed how work on the phenomenon of temperamental shyness informs basic theory regarding brain‐behaviour relations and practice regarding the management of fearful children within the family and educational settings.

Presented by Zeenat Janmohamed, Janette Pelletier, and Carl Corter at the AECEO conference, May 27, 2010.

Presented by Jane Bertrand, Zeenat Janmohamed, and Kerry McCuaig at the Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood, May 26, 2012, Wilfred Laurier University.

Presented by Christine Avery Nunez, Atkinson Charitable Foundation, Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Foundation Fellow in Early Childhood Education, OISE, UofT, Toronto Education Consultation, June 14, 2012.

Presented to the Waterloo Region Children's Planning Table, November 26, 2012.

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, November 29, 2012.

Presented by Zeenat Janmohamed & Kerry McCuaig.

Presented by Kerry McCuaig at the Aga Khan Foundation Canada's "Action Today for Results Tomorrow: Public Policy for a Child’s Health," February 20, 2013.

Presented by Carl Corter at Sheridan College, Early Childhood Leadership Research Symposium, April 12, 2013.

Presented by Dr. Edward Melhuish at his Findings from the UK’s Effective Provision of Pre-School Education Study Canadian Tour, April 26, 2013.

Presented by Petr Varmuza and Michal Perlman, University of Toronto, at the Atkinson Centre Early Years Task Force meeting, May 8, 2013.

Discussing a recent analysis of the City of Toronto's subsidy wait list exploring when children receive care vs. when their parents need it.