Working in Partnership with Children, Youth, Families and Communities to Create a Healthier Peel Region
Welcome to the
Family and Child Health Initiative
The Family and Child Health Initiative (FCHI) is a group of researchers and clinicians focused on improving the health and well-being of children, youth, and families in Peel Region, Ontario and was founded in 2018 with the generous financial support of an anonymous donor and various research grants.
FCHI is an Institute for Better Health (IBH) led initiative at Trillium Health Partners (THP) in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, one of the largest, most diverse and growing communities in Ontario.
FCHI works in partnership with children, youth, families, and communities because we believe the voices, experiences, and knowledge of everyone that lives, plays, and works in Peel is needed to create programs, services, and systems that are inclusive, equitable, meaningful, and long-lasting.
Whether you are a community member, service provider, researcher or student, please consider connecting with us to share your ideas about child, youth, and family health and well-being or how we might work together. We would love to hear from you.
Land Acknowledgement
For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land.
We would like to acknowledge that the land on which the Region of Peel operates is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
In particular, we acknowledge the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.