The communities of Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Hope are cooperating together across their region, in partnership with Live 5-2-1-0, to spread clear, consistent messages about healthy eating to children in their communities.
Read MoreThe $10aday childcare campaign is currently running a petition and is planning a week of action at the beginning of March.
Read MoreThe CPNP program in Tofino-Ucluelet is becoming mobile to better serve families in outlying areas of their rural community.
Read MoreThis video, developed by the Terrace/Kitimat and area Aboriginal Health Improvement Committee, provides insight into indigenous cultural practices around birth. Aboriginal Health, North Health provided funding for this video.
Read MoreComing March 1-2, 2017, Side By Side: Strategies for Working with Vulnerable Fathers, a conference in Winnipeg for those working with fathers at risk.
Read MoreNational Child Day was celebrated on November 5. Check out these two videos produced by N’we Jinan in collaboration with school children and youth, celebrating diversity and the strength of indigenous culture.
Read MorePlanning for Change, produced by Best Start Resource Centre, provides a Facilitator Guide to assist community facilitators in planning and presenting a workshop for First Nations Women about FASD Prevention and Skills for Change.
Read MoreThe Child Trauma Academy offers short, free online courses on topics such as brain development, childhood trauma, the cost of caring (secondary traumatic stress), and bonding and attachment in maltreated children.
Read MoreThe EDI BC: 2016 Provincial Report explores patterns and trends in early child development outcomes in BC through the use of EDI data.
Read MoreThe findings of the 2015-16 CAPC-CPNP and Associated Activities Evaluation completed in March 2016 have recently been made available.
Read MoreThe Keeping In Touch team has put together a special edition to turn your focus to Aboriginal Head Start in Northern and Urban Communities (AHSUNC) in British Columbia.
Read MoreRead, Speak, Sing: Fun ideas for you and your baby is a short video from the Canadian Paediatric Society where three paediatricians from across Canada offer easy, fun suggestions for parents to engage in everyday activities with their infant or young child to help build literacy skills.
Read MoreSave the date! Registration will open soon for the following PHAC CAPC, CPNP and AHS Regional Training Events.
Read MoreA number of schools in BC, Ontario and the Yukon are involved in the first wave of the Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative, designed to increase children’s capacity to meet life’s challenges and rise to life’s potential.
Read MoreAn interdisciplinary UBC team, writing in the BC Medical Journal this October, provide a case review of a 6-year-old child who was referred for counseling for mood and behavioural symptoms, and the positive affect of coordinated community interventions to address issues around poverty and stress for his family.
Read MoreA new report shows that a UBC-led group of researchers have moved closer to finding a genetic biomarker for FASD, and we look at two initiatives that provide materials to help encourage men to play an active role in supporting their partner to have an alcohol-free pregnancy.
Read MoreIn partnership with the BC Health Coalition, First Call has set up a petition to ensure quality neonatal care coverage through MSP for Canadian-born infants in BC whose parents have precarious immigration status.
Read MoreWe spoke this month with JoAnne White and Helena Browett who run the Great Beginnings (CAPC) Program at Family Place Community Parenting Centre in Maple Ridge. Read more about how their program helps parents move from pre-natal to parenting.
Read MoreEarly childhood educators are often an early point of contact for refugee families. In this AMSSA video, Emily Mlieczko, Executive Director of the Early Childhood Educators of BC, applies the 8 Guiding Principles of early childhood education to the specifics of serving the children of recently arrived refugee families.
Read MoreThe Bernard van Leer Foundation and Ascend at the Aspen institute have just released a detailed report on a “two-generation approach” to reducing poverty and improving child development.
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