• Immunization clinic, Campbell River

"We included the TDI in our routine  Child Health Clinics where we offer immunizations and health checks.  The families would come into the clinic and the volunteer would offer to help weigh and measure the child as they normally would, then the nurse would take them into the clinic room.  During the appointment, the nurse would explain about the TDI  and address any questions.  Following the visit, the nurse would guide the family to the waiting area (or a private room if they prefer) to wait for the recommended 15 minutes post-immunizations and complete the TDI if they chose.  The volunteer in the waiting area had completed the TDI training, and so was able to address questions with standard responses or seek a nurse if required.  Once complete, the family would hand the TDI to the volunteer in a sealed envelope, and the volunteer would return them to the admin staff."

 

• Family Community Events, Revelstoke

"We used family-orientated community events to tell people about the TDI and to support parents/caregivers in filling out the TDI. For example, we host a clothing and toy swap twice a year for families in our community. This type of event is really helpful to reach out to families who may not be connected to other community programs. There is a steady flow of people throughout the day at this type of event, allowing for a large number of families to come into contact with information about the TDI. At the community clothing swap, we had an Early Years information fair in the hall, which offered families information on the TDI as well as the opportunity to fill out the TDI on site or make a follow up meeting in order to facilitate filling it out at a later time."

• Public Health, Powell River

TDI Kiosk, Powell River Public Health

Depending on your context, the role of a TDI facilitator may be to simply share a link of the TDI  or share the paper version of the TDI with a parent/caregiver. In some cases, a parent/caregiver may have additional questions about the TDI and may look to you for support. If this happens, we ask that you follow up with them and provide support according to your professional role (either answering questions yourself if within your expertise or referring to other service providers or supports within the community). This table is a helpful guide!

Click here to check if your site/organization is listed and approved to participate in the TDI.

We value participant’s time! Participants who complete the TDI can choose to be entered into a draw for a $50 gift certificate.

For participants who complete the TDI online, they will be prompted at the end of the survey to fill out a ballot form online. There will be a draw for all online participants at the end of data collection (Summer 2020) and the winner will be notified by email.

For those who complete the paper survey, TDI facilitators are asked to gather the participant’s ballot. We have $50 for a gift certificate for each community to facilitate a local draw. How you decide to facilitate the community draw is up to you.

No, for the online version participants will automatically be asked for consent before they are able to begin the survey. The online version also contains the participant feedback form as well as the option to enter for the $50 gift card draw.

The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research network, based at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. HELP’s unique partnership brings together many scientific viewpoints to address complex early child development (ECD) issues. To learn more, visit HELP's website at http://earlylearning.ubc.ca/.

We ensure all responses are confidential/private so that there is no identification at the individual level. The TDI survey gives parents a voice by asking them to fill it out. By voicing what may be sensitive to disclose, potential challenges can be measured and awareness raised and in the long term, hopefully contribute to change.

If the TDI is completed in an environment in which parents can, after or during completion of the TDI, talk to ECD professionals and connect to resources/services/information, this may serve as a support around potentially sensitive topics.

Personal data collected are helpful for research purposes and are managed with utmost respect to legislation that protects everyone’s personal information.  Let us assure you that individual responses are never reported.

From the data we gather, researchers may apply to “link” the data to other administrative and research data.  This allows researchers to study trends in childhood development, better understand the policy and program differences that influence developmental outcomes, and contribute to our understanding about how to make improvements for children in British Columbia. Researchers who receive permission to use HELP data for research or statistical purposes are provided data that cannot be connected to any individual student. Researchers do NOT receive Identifier data (date of birth, postal codes, or Personal Health Numbers).

Finally, parents/caregivers do not need to fill out your child’s personal information if they prefer. They can still fill out the rest of the questionnaire questions and leave the personal information questions blank.  However, if they choose to complete all the questions, we have privacy protection in place whereby questionnaire data are de-identified. Personal Health Numbers are removed, encrypted, and stored separately from the rest of the questionnaire responses. Age is calculated from date of birth, enabling date of birth to be removed and stored separately from questionnaire data.  Postal codes are used for aggregate reporting by neighbourhood so children are always mapped in groups of 35 or more.