What is UEY?
Understanding the Early Years is a national initiative to study early childhood development in communities across Canada. The UEY initiative provides community members with quality local data about:
- Children's early development and readiness for school (Early Development Instrument);
- Family and Community factors that influence children's development (Parent Interview and Direct Assessment of Children Survey);
- The availability of local resources to support young children and their families (Community Inventory);
- Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of neighbourhoods (Census data);
UEY Regina research will inform us about how well our children are developing and the strengths and needs in our community.
Download the UEY Regina brochure: UEY Brochure
Download UEY Regina posters:
The First Six Years Poster
Investment in the Early Years Poster
90% of Brain Devt Poster
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Bringing Community Together
The focus of UEY is community capacity-building using local information on young children. The broad objectives of UEY are to:
- Strengthen the capacity of communities to use quality local information to help them make decisions to enhance children's lives; and
- Enable community members to work together to address the needs of children.
Parents, teachers, key decision-makers, and others interested in the well-being of children in each community can then work together to address issues identifies by this information.
UEY aims to involve children from all backgrounds including Aboriginal children, children of new immigrants, children in official language minority communities, and children in disadvantaged circumstances.
UEY does this by helping communities use local information and foster partnerships among community groups to make decisions about the best policies and programs for young children to thrive.
