Jillian Roberts

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rdf:langString Jillian Roberts is a Canadian child psychologist, author and faculty member at the University of Victoria. Roberts works and writes in both English and French. Born and raised in British Columbia, Roberts obtained degrees from the University of Waterloo (1991), Dalhousie University (1992), the University of Toronto (1995), and the University of Calgary (1998). Her doctoral work was about children with HIV/AIDS and her HIV research continues to be featured by the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR). In 1999, she assumed a faculty position in educational psychology at the University of Victoria. Roberts' Just Enough series of children's books was released in 2016. She followed this with the series World Around Us. The first book On Our Streets: Our First Talk About Poverty was co-written with Google's Jaime Casap and a finalist for the 2018 Bolen Books Children's Book Prize, given by the Victoria Book Prize Society. The final book of the series, On Our Nature Walk: Our First Talk About Our Impact on the Environment (2020) was forwarded by the CBC's Bob McDonald. The World Around Us series is featured in Scholastic Canada's Classroom Essentials. In 2022, Roberts published "Calm" and "My Promise" for the youngest of readers. In her capacity as a child psychologist, Roberts has been quoted in HuffPost, CBC News, Slate and Psychology Today. In 2020, she was awarded the University of Toronto at OISE's Leaders and Legends Award for Distinguished Service. In 2021, she was awarded a City of Victoria Honorary Citizen Award. In 2022, she began writing regular parenting articles for Today's Parent.