He remains actively involved in supporting research-based child welfare policy and practice. Using data collected and analyzed in partnership with First Nations organizations, Trocmé also provided expert testimony at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearings into the systematic underfunding of First Nations child welfare services. Today, Trocmé continues to expand the scope of his research so that it can have the greatest impact possible on child welfare policy and practice, urging governments to ensure that young people under their responsibility receive the highest standards of care, rather than the lowest.Īs the founding director of the Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare, Trocmé established the first national network of child welfare researchers and policymakers, and provided seed funding to many, now ongoing, child welfare research initiatives. He also led the seminal Canadian Incidence Study and National Outcome Measures together, these initiatives have been instrumental in developing both new service delivery models and performance evaluation systems for child welfare agencies across the country. This study remains the only source of national statistics on child welfare services in Canada. Among his major research contributions is a study showing that First Nations children are 12 times more likely to be placed in care than are non-Aboriginal children. Trocmé is the author of a pioneering series of Canadian studies on child abuse, neglect and the placement of children in out-of-home care, spending the first half of his career leading groundbreaking provincial and national child welfare studies. His work is frequently described as cutting-edge, and unique in its use of empirical research to address the management, policy and advocacy needs of community organizations and government agencies.įirst Nations children are 12 times more likely to be placed in care than are non-Aboriginal children, Trocmé’s research shows. An innovative and dedicated researcherĭirector of McGill’s School of Social Work, and its Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work, Trocmé is an internationally recognized expert in his field. His Connection Award recognizes his outstanding record of effective engagement with, and beyond, the research community. He is one of Canada’s top child welfare researchers and a driving force behind the development of innovative knowledge-sharing tools making accessible a wealth of research findings and data used by child advocacy groups and government service providers to better understand and address the needs of the young people in their care. Project results have the potential to be used as an exploration tool to maximise Australia’s competitive advantage in exploring onshore sedimentary basins.2014 Connection Award winner works to transform child welfare servicesįor 25 years, McGill University’s Nico Trocmé, winner of the 2014 Connection Award, has been a leading and vocal advocate for youth. The intended outcome is to understand how the Earth’s surface is shaped by flow within its interior, and how these processes explain the sedimentary record. This project plans to combine recent advances in tectonic reconstructions and dynamic Earth models with the global and Australian rock record. The rise and fall of sea level has shaped our planet over time. This project is designed to quantify the effect of flow deep within Earth’s interior on past sea-level changes and on the flooding history of Australia over the last 550 million years. Congratulations to Dr Nicolas Flament for being awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council!īelow are some details about Nico’s project (2016-2019) entitled ‘ The geodynamics of past sea level changes‘:
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