Previous Commission seminars

• Suicide and risk-taking deaths
  Start Date: 22 Aug 2003    End Date: 22 Aug 2003
  This seminar on suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people presented an overview of youth suicide and suicide prevention strategies in Australia as well as information on key recent research findings.

• Early child development - the Canadian experience
  Start Date: 21 Mar 2003    End Date: 21 Mar 2003
  Dr Clyde Hertzman, Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development and Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, presented on community mapping and how early development affects lifelong well-being.

• Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP)
  Start Date: 14 Mar 2003    End Date: 14 Mar 2003
  Rosie Roberts, former Director of the Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) in Oxford, UK, presented on the promotion of early literacy, social and emotional development in children aged 0-5.

• Impact of non-parental care on infants and toddlers
  Start Date: 05 Mar 2003    End Date: 05 Mar 2003
  

  Dr J. Ronald Lally, a national expert on early childhood development in the United States, presented on the impact of child care on infants and toddlers and what constitutes quality in a child care setting.