Sharing Best Practices: An Interview with Grace Tait
Grace Tait grew up in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) Vancouver neighbourhood. Encouraged by her mother and her grandfather, she began volunteering as a teenager with Meals on Wheels, and, through that experience, got to know and value many elders in the community. When she became a parent in her early twenties, her family were a great support to her in raising her kids. She worked two or three part-time jobs to support herself and her kids, and her kids went to Ray-Cam Community Centre Daycare. Click here to continue reading!
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Sharing Best Practices: An Interview with Hazel Slape
Hazel has run the CAPC program for 21 years in the small town of Chase, in the Interior of BC, located at the outlet of Little Shuswap Lake, the source of the South Thompson River. The town has a population of roughly 2,500 and its main industries are forestry and tourism. She facilitates the program on her own, as the sole staff person for the program. Click here to continue reading!
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Sharing Best Practices: An Interview with Germaine Asplin
A discernment process for Germaine about the next stages in her personal life has coincided with restructuring in the agency she has worked for, and so she made the decision to explore new opportunities, after coordinating the Victoria’s Best Babies CPNP program for the past 24 years. Click here to continue reading!
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PHAC AHS, CAPC, and CPNP Regional Training - Vancouver Coastal and Vancouver Island Regions
Register for the upcoming Vancouver Coastal Regional Training opportunity. PHAC will be sponsoring Vancouver Coastal AHS, CAPC, and CPNP program staff to attend Day 1 of the BCAPOP annual conference coming up in October. The registration deadline is fast approaching next week.
Save the date for the PHAC AHS, CAPC, and CPNP Vancouver Island Regional Training event taking place on February 19 and February 20, 2018. More information will be available soon!
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BC Council for Families (BCCF): Growing Together Toolkit
The Public Health Agency of Canada and the BC Council for Families presented a webinar on March 23, 2017 to present an overview of the Growing Together: Supporting the mental health and wellness of young children, mothers, and their families Toolkit, designed to support service providers working with mothers with mental health, substance use, and other challenges, and their families.
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Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP): Call to Action: On Behalf of Maltreated Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers in Canada
Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP) launched a Call to Action: On Behalf of Maltreated Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers in Canada at the beginning of May 2017 at the Expanding Horizons Conference in Ontario, declaring that collective action is crucial to ensure all our babies have optimal social and emotional health.
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CTV News: Talk to babies and let them babble back to bridge word gap
The American Association for the Advancement of Science focused on new child development research at its February 2017 meeting, looking at ways to address the “word gap” for at-risk children that has been identified as a challenge to school readiness.
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Center on the Developing Child (Harvard University): 8 Things to Remember About Child Development
In this factsheet, “8 Things to Remember About Child Development”, featured in the From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts report, the Center on the Developing Child sets out a group of key issues around early child development.
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Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (AFWI): Stress: how positive, tolerable, and toxic stress impact the developing brain
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative has released a working paper on the effects of stress on child and how negative experiences in childhood can impose large costs on brain health and development later in life development, as part of the their Brain Story project on brain development.
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Ministry of Health: New policy to pay for a support person to travel with Indigenous women giving birth away from their community
The Federal Government is changing its health policy to begin paying for someone to travel with Indigenous women who need to leave their communities to give birth. This comes after recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to recognize the state of Indigenous health.
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The Lancet: Series on Early Childhood Development
The respected medical journal, The Lancet, has published a groundbreaking series on early child development, “Advancing Early Childhood Development from Science to Scale.” The 3-part series argues that the growing social and economic costs to nations of under-investment in prenatal and early childhood development are unsustainable. In their review of a wide range of international programs, the findings demonstrate that the best results combine what's known as "nurturing" care with basic health, nutrition, and cognitive programs.
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BC Council for Families Blog: Growing Numbers of Grandparents: How their Role is Evolving
Today’s grandparents are relied upon to provide child care and financial support, and are more likely to live with the grandchildren than they used to be, maintaining longer relationships with their grandchildren than was common in the past. A BC Council for Families explores the current realities of grandparent involvement for children in BC.
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The Canadian Bar Association: Child Rights Toolkit
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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Representative of Children and Youth’s report on Delegate Aboriginal Agencies: How resourcing affects service delivery
The BC Representative of Children and Youth released a report in March 2017 calling for new funding models to encourage different outcomes. The report calls for a comprehensive re-think of how the province delivers services to youth and children in Indigenous communities that takes into account the unique needs of their communities and the lingering impacts of historical policies.
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Public Education Demands in BC
Nine organisations involved with education in BC have sent an open letter to the provincial government calling for action on issues around education standards, capacity, and school safety.
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BC Council for Families & SPARC BC Produce Family Demographics across BC
The BC Council for Families has partnered with SPARC BC to produce a series of infographics about family demographics in regional districts across BC using the results of their 2015 Let’s Talk Families BC! survey.
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Resource Booklets for First Nations and Metis Parents in BC: Parents as First Teachers
Parents as First Teachers is one of a series of resource booklets available through FNHA to support First Nations and Métis parents in BC.
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Kindergarten Readiness in Comox Valley
ECE professionals and primary school teachers in the Comox Valley are working collaboratively to facilitate children’s school entry. Read more about the tools and supports they have created to facilitate this significant transition point in the lives of children in their community.
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LGBQT Community Specific Tip Sheets
A 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.
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Food Skills for Families
Diabetes Canada’s Food Skills for Families program is designed to support low income, newcomers, Punjabi, Aboriginal and active seniors populations to learn food preparation and nutrition skills in a fun, community environment. Check out this video report on the Squamish Food Skills for Families Cooking Class for Punjabi speakers.
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