Jillian Roberts

Jillian Roberts is a Canadian child psychologist, author, speaker, and Professor at the University of Victoria.[1][2][3][4][5]

Dr. Jillian Roberts

Born 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).[6] Her doctoral work was about children with HIV/AIDS.[7] In 1999, she assumed a faculty position in educational psychology at the University of Victoria.[8]Roberts' Just Enough series of children's books was released in 2016.[9][10][11][12] She followed this with the series World Around Us.[13][14]

Roberts works and writes in both English and French.[15][16]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.[17][18] In 2022, Roberts published "Calm" and "My Promise" for the youngest of readers.[19][20], as well as a book for parents with babies.[21] In 2022, she began writing regular parenting articles for Today's Parent.[22] In 2023, the mental health clinics that were founded under her name were rebranded as MindKey Health.[23]

In 2020, Roberts was awarded the University of Toronto at OISE's Leaders & Legends Alumni Award for Distinguished Service. In 2021, Roberts became a 2021 Honorary Citizen of the City of Victoria. In 2022, Roberts was awarded the University of Waterloo Arts Achievement Alumni Award.