In 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.
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We 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.
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The 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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Learn about an interactive approach to research that has actively engaged with a rural Aboriginal community to make existing child development measurement tools more effective for local use.
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Worrying results from a research study on infant sleep patterns indicating that unsafe infant sleep practices are still widespread. Read more here about the study, its findings and recommendations.
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You can take effective individual action! Out of their commitment to re-engaging their own children with nature, two British dads have created a book project and website to provide encouragement for others interested in following their example.
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Learn about the Healthy Together program, designed to foster healthy weights for children at risk including children in care (0-18) and their families. The Bridge Youth & Family Services in Kelowna have played a key role in the development of the program.
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Comox Valley Family Services Association works with local food bank to support pregnant women and families with young children. Read more about the collaborative initiative to connect with hard-to-reach families.
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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.
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The Canadian Childcare Federation (CCCF) identifies five elements of cultural competence in early childhood educators.
Read MoreGlobalChild is an electronic reporting platform for signatory countries of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is being developed by an international team led by Dr. Ziba Vaghri of UVic’s School of Public Health and Social Policy. The launch date in Canada is planned for 2021.
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We look at the new design criteria guide for outdoor play spaces, Seven Cs, produced by Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, along with a recent blog posting by Dr. Beverlie Dietze of Okanagan College on The Importance of Increasing Children’s Outdoor Play Opportunities, written for the Canadian Child Care Federation.
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The Best Start Resource Centre, with funding from the Government of Ontario, has produced a new resource booklet, Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding and Younger Women, available online.
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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Diana Bosworth, M.A., Family Services Coordinator at Esquimalt Neighbourhood House in Victoria, talks with us about their postnatal CPNP program, which operates on two sites in the Greater Victoria area and which forms part of a continuum of care for families through their agency.
Read MoreIn this five-minute video, produced by KidCareCanada, Dr. Nils Bergman explains the theory and value of skin-to-skin contact for newborns and parents.
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“Back to the Future”: A recent study looks at the value of recreating natural Indigenous language learning environments through language nest early childhood immersion programs.
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In March 2016, the Office of the Correctional Investigator recommended increasing participation in mother-child units in federal prisons, particularly minimum-to-medium security prisons, enabling children up to the age of 4 years old to stay with their mothers, and allowing mothers access to health and social programs.
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The first payments of the new Canada Child Benefit went out on July 20, 2016, in a program designed with hopes to both reduce the number of children in Canada under the poverty line and provide a stimulus to the Canadian economy.
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