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The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (AFWI) facilitates research and shares knowledge about the science of brain development to support positive lifelong health outcomes for everyone.
We've gathered all our most popular learning resources in one place: the Brain Story Toolkit.
Science tells us that the experiences we have in the earliest years of our lives actually change our brain architecture in lasting ways. That has consequences – positive and negative – across the lifespan for our physical and mental health.
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The AFWI mobilizes knowledge about early brain development and its connection to lifelong physical and mental health. We form the bridge between the latest scientific knowledge about brain development and what is actually done in policy and practice.
Learn MoreThe AFWI is an initiative of the Palix Foundation. We operate and develop resources under the expert oversight of a cross-disciplinary group of advisors who comprise the AFWI Advisory Council and the Curriculum Committee.
The University of Oxford, in paid partnership with the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative is working to share knowledge about the science of brain development for families and professionals.
Visit SiteIn 2017 the AFWI developed the Brain Story Certification Course, the first learning program of its kind. Since then, we’ve gathered ongoing feedback about the structure, content and impact of the course to create a new resource: the Brain Story Impact Report. The report includes everything you and your organization need to know about the role this resource plays in driving systemic change, and how you can participate.
From June–November 2020, the AFWI convened a community of practice comprising six organizations in Alberta and two in London, England. The intent…
From September 2019 to April 2020, Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (AFWI) commissioned a developmental evaluation to explore the extent to…
The Feedback Report summarizes approximately two years of feedback about the Brain Story Certification Course, a free online learning program…
