Judy Finlay
Associate Professor
Director, School of Child and Youth Care
Faculty of Community Services
School of Child and Youth Care
Toronto, Ontario
jfinlay@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 554809
Expert In
Child advocacy
Child and youth care
Community and mental health
COVID-19 and northern First Nations communities
COVID-19 and remote Indigenous communities
Cross-over youth
First Nations family and community wellness
Health and well-being in remote northern communities
Health services and policies
Indigenous communities in northern Ontario
Justice, equity and society
Peer violence among incarcerated youth
Social determinants of health and well-being
Youth in state care entering youth justice system
Bio/Research
Judy Finlay is an associate professor and graduate program director in the Faculty of Community Services at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and has been a faculty member in the School of Child and Youth Care since 2007.
She is the co-chair and principal investigator of...
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She is the co-chair and principal investigator of...
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Bio/Research
Judy Finlay is an associate professor and graduate program director in the Faculty of Community Services at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and has been a faculty member in the School of Child and Youth Care since 2007.
She is the co-chair and principal investigator of the Cross-Over Youth Project, designed to learn ways to interrupt the trajectory of youth in the care of the state from entering the youth justice system.
Finlay’s current research (in which she is also the principal investigator) includes Mamow Ki-ken-da-ma-win: Searching Together: Enhancing wellness through a partnership-based approach to child, family and community in First Nations in remote northern Ontario.
She is a member of the Child and Family Services Review Board and Custody Review Board with the Social Justice Tribunal of Ontario.
Finlay was Canada's longest-standing child and youth advocate and was Ontario’s chief advocate from 1991 to 2007.
She has worked for more than three decades in child welfare and children’s mental health. Finlay has participated in developing children’s rights agendas, youth capacity building, leadership, and community development in Mexico, Jamaica, Japan, Guatemala, and Sierra Leone.
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She is the co-chair and principal investigator of the Cross-Over Youth Project, designed to learn ways to interrupt the trajectory of youth in the care of the state from entering the youth justice system.
Finlay’s current research (in which she is also the principal investigator) includes Mamow Ki-ken-da-ma-win: Searching Together: Enhancing wellness through a partnership-based approach to child, family and community in First Nations in remote northern Ontario.
She is a member of the Child and Family Services Review Board and Custody Review Board with the Social Justice Tribunal of Ontario.
Finlay was Canada's longest-standing child and youth advocate and was Ontario’s chief advocate from 1991 to 2007.
She has worked for more than three decades in child welfare and children’s mental health. Finlay has participated in developing children’s rights agendas, youth capacity building, leadership, and community development in Mexico, Jamaica, Japan, Guatemala, and Sierra Leone.
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