Responsive research for social change.
The goal of our work is to ensure that all Canadian children have the tools to succeed.
The Start2Finish Research Team utilizes a multi-pronged, culturally responsive, trauma-informed framework focused on literacy, physical activity/movement, psychosocial development, mentorship and parent engagement to equip children from low-income communities for success. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, we look to better understand the conditions of deprivation to suggest and enact impactful interventions.
“Activist scholarship attempts to intervene in a particular historical-geographical moment by changing not only what people do but also how all of us think about ourselves and our time and place, by opening the world we make.”
— Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning
Are you a scholar-activist interested in collaborating with us? We wish to work with activist-minded researchers that desire to actively transform the lives of Canadian children.
Areas of Engagement:
Education
Social Work
Psychology
Kinesiology
Neuroscience
Public Health
Benefits of working with us
Ability to leverage resources, expertise, knowledge translation initiatives, and research for partnership funding opportunities
Access to collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders in communities of complexity across Canada to create shared learning that inspires policy decision-making,
Ability to conduct multi-disciplinary research to address child poverty in Canada
Opportunity to create long-lasting relationships that promote public debate, public policy decision-making, and societal change.