Claire Crooks has been named the WORLDiscoveries Annual Vanguard Awards – Innovator of the Year.
Crooks is a clinical psychologist, professor at the Faculty of Education and Director of the Centre for School Mental Health, where she and her team develop, implement, and evaluate mental health promotion and violence prevention programs in a range of school and community settings.
Her research looks at the gaps between science, practice and policy related to the healthy development of children and youth.
Along with a team of fellow researchers, Crooks has developed the Fourth R, a curriculum that is based on the principal that relationship skills can and should be taught in much the same way as reading, writing and arithmetic.
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