Behind The Pages - Podcast Of The Jeie

On this episode of Behind the Pages, Julie Drolet highlights how inadequate attention and funding for ECD infrastructure and resources posed compounding challenges for parents, caregivers, and ECD service providers as they attempted to re-enter Fort McMurray, Alberta, and begin rebuilding their lives and community after one of Canada’s most devastating wildfires. In their research article, “Early Childhood Development in the Aftermath of the 2016 Wildfires in Alberta, Canada,” Drolet and her co-authors Caroline McDonald-Harker, Nasreen Lalani, Sarah McGreer, Matthew R. G. Brown, and Peter H. Silverstone argue that prioritizing ECD in disaster preparedness planning may support communities to recover faster, build back stronger, and mitigate risks to children’s timely development due to disruptions like environmental disasters. Behind the Pages is the podcast of the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE). This season of Behind the Pages features timely and dynamic conversations with authors from the JEiE Sp