Research

National and international research collaborations are key components of the ED model. This entails national and global collaborations with university researchers and research networks. Locally an on-going Participant Action Research (PAR) process informs practice. In 2015 the ED organized the Elsipogtog Education Wellness Ethics Committee to guide research undertaken in the community.

The Eastern Door was involved in two CIHR projects. One was an Indigenous Catalyst Grant looking at how to use a TES process in assessing Iron Deficiency. The other was a NEIHR grant looking at the development of a model for an Indigenous research center in the Atlantic Provinces.

Eastern Door is involved with the Canada FASD Research Network (CanFASD) whose goal is to build research capacity across Canada to address high-priority areas such as: prevention, diagnosis, intervention, epidemiology, justice and child welfare – in order to better inform policy decisions.

An interactive version of the test tool is indevelopment that will link to a database and will be available to other clinics to assist in collecting research data.

• The Easter Door Centre won the Claudette Bradshaw FASD Innovation Award in 2024
• The Easter Door Centre won the 2023 Pediatrics Medallion from the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada

Articles, Book Chapters and Manuals

• The Eastern Door Center: re-balancing the wheel–a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to FASD and other disorders related to transgenerational adversity
  Lori Vitale Cox
  3.43 MB
• Chapter 11: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Evidence, Theory and Current Insights
  Christine Loock, Elizabeth Elliott and Lori Vitale Cox
  800 kB
• FASD in a Canadian aboriginal community context—an exploration of some ethical issues involving the access to FASD service delivery
  Lori Vitale Cox
  140 kB
• Knowledge and Attitudes of Criminal Justice Professionals in Relation to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
  Lori Vitale Cox, Donald Clairmont and Seamus Cox
  151 kB

External Evaluations

• An Assessment of a Crucial Initiative: Youth-at-Risk School and Community C.A.R.E*--The Nogemag Model
  Don Clairmont
  140 kB
• The Elsipogtog Quest for Excellence: The Institutionalization of an Innovative, Effective Program for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Intervantion of Preventable Pre-Natal Birth Disabilities
  Don Clairmont
  444 kB