Videos Building Blocks for a Healthy Future
Building Blocks II Speakers
Building Blocks II
Stress & Resiliency in Children Living in Families Impacted by Addiction.
	Summary - This video provides a summary of the Stress & Resiliency in Children Living in Families Impacted by Addiction Symposium. Featured speakers include Jerry Moe, Sonia Lupien and Don Coyhis.
	Mr. Jerry Moe - Children from Addicted Families: Kids at Risk
	Dr. Sonia Lupien - Growing up in a Stressful Environment: What it Does, and What you can Do About it.
	Mr. Don Coyhis
Harvard University Lecture
	The Childhood Roots of Adult Disease: Exploring the Biology & Psychology of Early Life Stress. This video, entitled The Childhood Roots of Adult Disease: Exploring the Biology & Psychology of Early Life Stress, presents the last of sixth lectures held at Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child, April 15, 2008 as part of the Center's 2007-2008 Colloquium Series. The session presents a multidisciplinary perspective on the investigation of causal mechanisms that explain differences in health status associated with early childhood adversity. Speakers include Dr. Takao Hench, Dr. Chuck Nelson and Dr. Laura Kubzansky.
Building Blocks for a Health Future Conference

Speaker Summaries
This 18 minute video provides a summary of the seven speakers who presented at the Building Blocks for Healthy Futures Conference, held May 24-25, 2007 in Red Deer, Alberta.
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Dr. Bryan Kolb - How Does Experience Get Under the Skin to Alter Brain and Behavioural Development?
Dr. Bryan Kolb is a professor of psychology at the University of Lethbridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, holds the Board of Governors Research Chair in Neuroscience and helped found the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge.
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Dr. Bruce Perry - Effects of Maltreatment on the Developing Child: Relational Poverty and Vulnerability to Abuse and Neglect
Dr. Bruce Perry, is the Senior Fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy in Houston, Texas.
 
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Dr. Vincent Felitti - Adverse Childhood Experiences and their Relationship to Adult Health, Well-being, and Social Functioning
Vincent Felitti founded the Department of Preventive Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego and is co-principal investigator of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. The ACE study was the largest study of its kind ever done to examine the medical, social and economic effects of adverse childhood experiences over the lifespan.
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Dr. Thomas McLellan - Are We Thinking Correctly About Addiction? Implications from Studies of Chronic Care
Thomas McLellan is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and the Senior Scientist at the PENN/VA Center for Studies of Addiction.
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Dr. Gabor Mate - Hungry Ghosts: The Addiction Process and Its Origins in Childhood and Adolescence
Dr. Gabor Mate is the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and resource centre for the people of Vancouver's downtown eastside. He is also a family medicine consultant, Department of Psychiatry, at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.
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Publications
Dr. Kyle and Marsha Pruett Supporting Father Involvement: Background, Concepts and Results	Child Development & Addiction: A Progress Report & Plan of Action for 2006/07 Prepared by the Norlien Foundation.
The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative Background document on The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative.	Building Blocks for a Healthy Future Conference Summary Written summary of the Building Blocks for a Healthy Future Conference.
CUPS One World 2004-2005 Outcomes Report CUPS One World Child Development Centre Outcomes Report 2004/05.	The Impact of Early Childhood Development on Prosperity and Society Presentation by Dr. Margaret Clarke, Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development, University of Calgary. Prepared for the North American Forum.
The Origins of Addiction: Evidence by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study A report by Dr. Vincent Felitti.	The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Adult Health: Turning Gold into Lead Report by Dr. Vincent Felitti on The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study; a major American research project that poses the question of whether, and how, childhood experiences affect adult health decades later.