International Day of the Girl 👧👧🏾👧🏻👧🏿👧🏼👧🏽

To celebrate the #DayOfTheGirl we are officially launching the Girlfesto Virtual Exhibition. The Girlfesto, a manifesto made by girls and for girls, was drafted at the Circle

Art Connecting Book Launch

Claudia Mitchell Wins Quebec's highest research honour

Claudia Mitchell wins the 2019 Leon-Gerin Prix du Quebec for her illustrious career studying gender-based violence prevention, HIV, and AIDS awareness, and working with youth around the world.

7th McGill International Cellphilm Festival 2019

Networks for Change and Well-being kicks off 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

Today we are kicking off day 1 of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign by sharing this powerful Girlfesto!

Congratulations to winners at 6th International Cellphilm Festival

Monday, November 12th at the McGill Art Hive a lively group of students, activists and film enthusiasts gathered to celebrate the 6th International Cellphilm Festival: Making Community.

Report on the IHDW Think Tank of September 2018

On September 27th, 2018 the IHDW held its first Think Tank: “Reflecting Forward 2018.” This event invited professors, graduate students and community leaders from Montreal and beyond to discuss the promotion of well-being at McGill and in the broader community, bringing brought together 35-40

Ten years later: honouring the memory of Jackie Kirk (1968-2008)

New edition of the newsletter for the Institute for Human Development and Well-being

We are pleased to share with you some of the activities that have been organized and supported by McGill's Institute for Human Development and Well-being (IHDW) during the past year.

Circles Within Circles event aims to end gender-based violence

A recent gathering organized by the Faculty of Education’s Dr. Claudia Mitchell brought together voices from around the world to examine and eliminate gender-based violence.

New book co-edited by Claudia Mitchell: "Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods"

IHDW's Dr. Neil Andersson co-authors "Youth Mental Health Should Be a Top Priority for Health Care in Canada," Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Dr. Neil Andersson, Co-Director of the McGill Institute of Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW), has co-authored "Youth Mental Health Should Be a Top Priority for Health Care in Canada" with The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (Sage Publishers). The paper was published in Vol 63, Issue 4, pp.

Newsletter of the McGill Institute for Human Development and Well-Being

We are pleased to share with you some of the activities that have been organized and supported during the first year since the official launch of the Institute for Human Development and Well-Being with our newsletter.

Jennifer Thompson presents report to the Pan-African Literacy for All Conference: "Girls' Empowerment through Language and Literacy: A Landscape Review of Gender and Literacy Research in African Contexts"

Jennifer Thompson, PhD candidate with our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, recently presented the report Girls' Empowerment through Language and Literacy: A Landscape Review of Gender and Literacy Research in African Contexts

Café Collab: Mediation Through Participatory Media-Making

Café Collab is a collaborative partnership with the Participatory Cultures Laboratory, situated within the Institute for Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW) at McGill's Faculty of Education; and McGill'