Zero to Three have produced an online resource A Year of Play to encourage parents to browse and find fun seasonal activities that promote child development through interactive play.
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Kelty Mental Health have issued their second edition of the Healthy Living…It’s in Everyone toolkit. Available in seven languages, it is designed to provide a guide to healthy living for families who have a child or youth living with mental health challenges, and provides ideas for Healthy Eating, Being Active Together, Managing Stress, and Developing Healthy Sleep Habits.
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Designed to support the work you are already doing in your programs, the Resilience Guide offers supports for understanding the impacts and developmental effects of trauma and resettlement, along with strategies and tips to help strengthen families’ capacity for resilience.
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Developed as part of the three-year BC Provincial Domestic Violence Plan, with collaboration amongst various ministries and community organizations, Early Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence: You Can Help, is a recently-released toolkit designed for use by individuals working with children in the 0-5 age range.
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The Hand in Hand: Growing Together Every Day family of resources provides activities and tips for caregivers to support social and emotional development during the early years, through the creation of a plan that is unique to the child and family. The toolkit includes a series of useful handout sheets for caregivers to assist in fostering.
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Building Connection: Supporting Community-Based Programs to Address Interpersonal Violence and Child Maltreatment is a detailed, practical toolkit produced by Mothercraft with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada to provide support to CAPC, CPNP and AHSUNC programs in their work with mothers and children experiencing the effects of Interpersonal Violence (IPV).
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The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Child Rights Toolkit was inspired by the need to improve children’s access to justice in Canada. It is designed for professionals working in legal and administrative decision-making who want to better understand and implement a child rights based approach in practice and strengthen their advocacy for children.
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Parents as First Teachers is one of a series of resource booklets available through FNHA to support First Nations and Métis parents in BC.
Read MoreA series of LGBTQ Parenting Tip Sheets, produced by BC Council for Families (BCCF), has been designed to support LGBTQ parents, and the professionals they work with in community organizations, around parenting issues and options.
Read MoreDr. Lynn Miller of UBC presents a video on anxiety in children as part of the FRIENDS program, which offers a range of techniques for children to use to manage their worries and anxieties.
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For decades, Participaction has encouraged Canadians to stay active and improve health. Their 2016 report Are Canadian Kids Too Tired to Move? focuses on the important inter-relationship between sleep and energy in children.
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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.
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Planning 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.
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A 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.
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Check out a set of downloadable handouts from the Psychology Foundation of Canada on a range of common family issues to share with participants in your programs.
Read MoreSeptember is FASD Prevention and Support month in BC. MCFD are planning a 2-day training for key workers in Spring 2017 and are working jointly with the Canada Northwest FASD Partnership to plan a national symposium in Regina in 2017.
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LMNHS, Vancouver, with support from Success by 6, have produced a Toolkit to assist in the development of outdoor programming for children in the natural environment.
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Professor Jessica Ball, MPH., PhD of the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, was a presenter at the BCAPOP Conference in October 2015. She spoke on Cultural Safety in Practice with Children, Families and Communities.
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National Child Day, on November 20, 2015, is a day to celebrate the rights of children in Canada and it is quickly approaching! Share and discover ways to celebrate, and learn more about child rights.
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Growing Together is a workbook-style resource focusing on mothers dealing with depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma or other challenging life circumstances. The resource is designed to be used with parents, parenting groups or in community education presentations.
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