VOICE: The Childhood Ethics Project

Such a huge honor to be invited to the 10th SISCA conference on child and youth health research, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), to describe our VOICE Childhood Ethics research. @francocarnevale.bsky.social

Join this #GriefGathering2025 event - essential learnings are promised!

In cased you missed this (coming on Monday): Re-Imagining Childhood Grief - A journal club discussion. Please share widely - with youth as well!

A child could tell you that the maths doesn't add up and that Dublin Airport's emissions levels will spiral if the planned trajectory is 60 million passengers. We have just experienced the warmest spring and summer ever according to Met Eireann. Someone has to put the brakes on, because this Government is clearly not serious about achieving the 2030 legally binding climate goal set by the EU of 51 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels. We all need to try to be at least conscious of our damaging impact on the environment by taking a flight. For instance, a return flight from Dublin to Paris emits approximately 484 kg to 490 kg of CO2 per passenger. I propose that airlines are mandated to publish emissions information when passengers are booking a flight and on boarding passes. This will improve awareness about the damaging environmental impact of flying and some may take climate action and decide not to fly. - Yours, etc, MARK FOX, Dublin 18.

👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼 "A child could tell you that the maths doesn’t add up and that Dublin Airport’s emissions levels will spiral if the planned trajectory is 60 million passengers."
👏We agree with Mark's letter in the Irish Times.
📣 Don't scrap the cap
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Re-Imagining Childhood Grief: Children as Active Agents in a Transactional Process.
Journal club: Everyone is welcome - youth too!
September 22 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (EST).
Moderated by #CeilidhEatonRussell (lead author), #HannaCrouse (youth researcher) & @francocarnevale.bsky.social
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It’s offensive to young people to call adults who behave badly “childish” or “toddlers”. #ChildhoodEthics research has shown that most young people – including toddlers – can demonstrate an active conscience and moral concern for others and the world around them. www.mcgill.ca/voice

Joint briefing: Ensuring the Child Poverty Strategy delivers for all children | Gingerbread

🚨 Today we launched a joint briefing with Gingerbread, @runnymedetrust.bsky.social @z2ktrust.bsky.social @praxisprojects.bsky.social and others on how child poverty affects different groups & the inclusive govt actions needed to tackle it. Link below ⬇️
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It’s International #OverdoseAwareness Day. When someone you know has died as a result of substance use, your #grief may be more complicated. MyGrief.ca has a module tailored to support you. buff.ly/4cDmMWQ #weseeyou #IOAD2024 #EndOverdose

Children’s epilepsy nurses at Hull Royal Infirmary have created some wonderful leaflets which are being used by Young Epilepsy aimed at supporting young people in the transition from paediatric care to adult epilepsy services! Read their incredible work here - www.epilepsy.org.uk/app/uploads/... 🩵

Grief has no deadline

There is no finish line for grief.

Particularly after a traumatic loss by suicide.

There is only learning to carry it differently.

Be patient with those still finding their way 💛

#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Grief #Hope

Former foster kid wants to provide safe space for students as school counselor After a tough childhood, woman turns her own story into a way to help others

“Adulthood was knocking at my door and I didn’t know how to answer the call…I come from a long line of women that have been trapped in a cycle of abuse and poverty… I wanted to make it.”

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/16/f... #generationaltrauma

HONORED to work with VOICE Youth Advisor #KevinLiu !
VOICE: The Childhood Ethics Project works with so many inspirational youth leaders!

Celebrating VOICE Youth Advisor #KevinLiu! Kevin was (a) PI for study on Young people's perspectives on assisted dying (Children & Society publication), (b) invited to present an expert youth testimony in Canada’s parliament on Medical Assistance in Dying.
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Famine is now a reality in Gaza. A man-made disaster for children and families that we have been warning about.

Urgent, large-scale action is needed NOW for children and families.

Ethical care for children with cancer in India. HONORED to work with #Cankids India & Indian partners ( #PoonamBagai #DrRamandeepSinghArora #DrVikramjitSKanwar) to improve respect for the voices of children with cancer.
@memacdonald.bsky.social
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Child Rights Academic Network 2025 member Professor Donna Koller writes:

According to the UNCRC, all articles are considered equally important. Article 12, however, supports the right of the child to be heard.

“It’s like teens are carrying their bullies around in their pockets!” Susan Metallo in conversation with Jodi Meadows on writing about the digital age of bullying and cancel culture for young women in their new novels buff.ly/2gpxbwS

Have your say in shaping the future of child maltreatment research in Canada! See poster for details and take the survey here: uottawapsy.az1.qualtrics.com/.../SV_6SjaI...

#childwelfare #ChildMaltreatment #research #cndpoli

This new policy demonstrates such impressive leadership - thanks @cjphrcsp.bsky.social for your vision!

Announcing a new authorship policy at CJPH: Consideration of young people in research - Canadian Journal of Public Health Canadian Journal of Public Health -

Research WITH young people! CJPH @cjphrcsp.bsky.social now requires authors to describe how young people are involved in research that affects them. VOICE youth #JaynaLingLunny & faculty @memacdonald.bsky.social @francocarnevale.bsky.social promoted this policy! Our editorial doi.org/10.17269/s41...

IMPRESSIVE RESOURCE: Youth engagement guide for mental health policymaking. Guidance for young people and "decision-makers" to help address barriers to youth participation, empowerment, and leadership.
Led by #SakikoYamaguchi @keikoshikako.bsky.social et al.
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School-based health promotion interventions targeting humanitarian migrant children: A narrative review Humanitarian migrant children frequently have health issues due to their difficult migration experiences; this is especially true regarding mental, ge…

HONORED for VOICE to collaborate with #NeginEslamiamirabadi, @memacdonald.bsky.social et al. With increased wars, conflicts, forced displacement worldwide, this analysis examines how schools can promote oral health in humanitarian migrant children.
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Re-Imagining Childhood Grief: Children as Active Agents in a Transactional Process - Ceilidh Eaton Russell, Meg Chin, Georg Bollig, Cheryl-Anne Cait, Franco A. Carnevale, Jody Chrastek, Bianca Lavorgn... Bereavement during childhood impacts children’s wellbeing and biopsychosocial development. Research examining impacts and outcomes of childhood bereavement and ...

Children grieve too! In this paper, we contest views of children as immature, used to justify their exclusion from discussions about death. This exclusion breaches children’s participation rights. We propose a rethinking that recognizes young people as active moral agents. doi.org/10.1177/0030...

VOICE was invited to the Welcome Hall Mission's Back to School Event to (a) present materials for children & parents relating to school stress, bullying, neurodiversity, among other topics and (b) provide consultations with families with particular concerns. In one day, we met with 900 children!

VOICE Childhood Ethics in action!
LOVE Québec describes an impressive project led by the VOICE Youth Advisory Council, helping youth learn about their rights.
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Recognizing children’s voices in Brazil.

HONORED to share Instagram postings (Portuguese and English), posted by VOICE Childhood Ethics trainee Renata Bubadué (professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL).
For Instagram postings, see:
English: www.instagram.com/p/DNYPd69Nnqp/
Portuguese: www.instagram.com/p/DNYPaV3t8BF/

Ethical care for children with cancer in India. HONORED to work with #Cankids India & Indian partners ( #PoonamBagai #DrRamandeepSinghArora #DrVikramjitSKanwar) to improve respect for the voices of children with cancer. @memacdonald.bsky.social @childhoodethics.bsky.social
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My Son Is Gone. Our Conversation Goes On. Three days before my child unexpectedly died, he primed me to keep living.

"Every night before I go to sleep, I write in a journal to my 12-year-old son, Tommy, and continue a conversation we started on April 13, 2018, just three days before he unexpectedly passed away," Nikki Mark writes in Modern Love.

YouTube video by DW Documentary When kids become content on social media | DW Documentary

Sharenting: “When kids become content on social media”. DISTURBING documentary
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