How are Our Children Doing?

35% of the children in our community are vulnerable in at least one aspect of their development, by senior kindergarten, based on the 2008-09 EDI results for Thunder Bay-Atikokan.

        According to Dr. Clyde Hertzman, a child vulnerability rate above 10% is

                                             biologically unnecessary.

Early Development Instrument (EDI); What is the EDI?

The 2005-06 EDI Baseline Maps were produced by the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) - University of British Columbia (refer to Presentation below).  These maps are the baseline maps for our community; future rounds of EDI results

will identify changes by neighbourhood.  During the 2005-06 EDI, 32% of the children in our community were vulnerable in their development, by senior kindergarten.

Early Years Study 3: Making Decisions Taking Action (2011)

Bringing the Community Together for the Children Dr. Clyde Hertzman - How are our children doing?    2005-06 EDI Presentation, Audio, Q&A Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Director HELP-University of British Columbia

These EDI results are an integral component of the Three-Year EDI Community Process model.