Check out First Call: BC’s Living Wage for Families Campaign for four new fact sheets.
Read MoreMenu for Capacity Building and Awareness Raising Actions is an interactive strategy framework produced by EuroHealthNet, identifying six priority areas for addressing health inequity and the Social Determinants of Health.
Read MoreMenCare is a global fatherhood campaign, engaging men as non-violent, caring fathers. Access their poster templates, customize them to suit your programming, and use them to create buzz in your community about embracing and supporting fatherhood and men’s caregiving.
Read MoreOn September 24, the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health hosted a teleconference on Taking a Health Equity Approach: Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity, focusing on the use of the Four Roles approach to addressing health inequities.
Read MoreKimberley CAPC Site Coordinator, Diana Card, has been working as Project Coordinator with the Kimberley Early Childhood Development Team (a group representing multiple agencies, programs and individuals) to complete an Ages & Stages Community Pilot Project.
Read MoreThe upcoming BCAPOP provincial training conference in October will provide tools and strategies to help encourage dads in the midst of pregnancy and beyond. What gets them through the door?
Read MoreReport describes what can be done to support healthy eating in the food retail setting, including suggestions for program development, implementation, and evaluation.
Read MoreNanaimo-based Sex Educator and Coach Lesley Stedmon is dedicated to perpetuating healthy messages and honest conversations about sexuality.
Read MoreIn this engaging presentation, Denise Findlay shares her insights on the complexities, especially those we tend not to be aware of consciously, that can develop in working with people in community.
Read MoreKathleen Lindstrom, CE/Perinatal Program Manager at Douglas College, Health Sciences Faculty, will present the opening plenary session at the BCAPOP 2013 Conference in October.
Read MoreA free weekly program for children 0-6, parents and caregivers, is offered through a partnership with the Langley Child Development Centre, Lower Fraser Valley Aboriginal Society, Aldergrove Neighbourhood Services Society, and School District #35.
Read MoreThe Community Action Initiative is offering 200 paid spots in an online Motivational Interviewing course.
Read MoreYour Keeping in Touch team recently attended a webinar where the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention presented the Essentials for Childhood resource.
Read MoreClick here to read a commentary from the Canadian Paediatric Society that reinforces the best practices embraced by CAPC, CPNP and AHS programs across BC.
Read MoreAfter reviewing the historical issues that have created particular ongoing challenges for many Aboriginal families, this paper provides straightforward, accessible practices for parents and caregivers to use to strengthen and support emotional security and attachment in the children they are raising.
Read MoreThe recently updated BC Injury Prevention Directory is a useful reference tool for those working with children and families, providing a listing of injury-prevention initiatives in BC along with contact information for the organizations responsible for managing each initiative.
Read MoreIn early March your Keeping in Touch team attended a BC Healthy Communities webinar on building resilient communities.
Read MoreAt a recent Pinwheel Education Series event, speakers from SHARE Family and Community Services and the Alan Cashmore Centre discussed how to support cross cultural families.
Read MoreSince attending the Tobacco War webinar last month we’ve had fathers on the brain. Click here to learn about paternal depression in the postnatal period and its association with behaviour and mood behaviours in children at age 3.
Read MoreWHO European review of social determinants of health and the health divide. In September 2012, a consortium led by Sir Michael Marmot published a summary of its findings on how to reduce health inequities in the 53 countries of the World Health Organization’s European region.
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