The SMART Guide is a training manual for service providers who are working with pregnant women who use alcohol. Using motivational interviewing and stage of change theory, this book provides guidance on how to talk to women about their alcohol use.
Read MoreIn this video of a keynote address given at a Family Services conference in Red Deer, author and speaker Kim Barthel speaks on the importance of relationship in infant neural development and in maintaining and regulating self-management throughout life.
Read MoreA January 30, 2019 blog by Julien Vincelot for the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s Early Childhood Matters looks at “The Effects of Transportation on Early Childhood Development”. A global conference held last September in Los Angeles, Urban 95, addressed the question, “If you could experience the city from 95 cm – the height of a three year old – what would you change?”
Read MoreThis year’s ECEBC conference, celebrating their 50th Anniversary as an organization, will be a national conference in partnership with the Canadian Child Care Federation. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver from April 10-13, with pre-conference professional development events from April 8-11. Keynote speakers will be Tove Mogstad Slinde, current Chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Network on Early Childhood Development, and Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, and Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. The conference will incorporate a formal 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee Soiree.
Read MoreThe BC provincial government has announced an investment of $105 million over three years to reduce the amount families and seniors pay for prescription drugs.
Read MoreThe month of February is known for expressions of caring, centred on Valentine’s day. It offers an opportunity to help children learn how to extend feelings of love and compassions to all those around us, near and far, by using a range of colours to express compassionate behaviour.
Read MoreThe Kelty Centre has developed a list of recommended resources for those wishing to learn more about supporting the mental health of newcomer children and youth. For more information, click here.
Read MoreA new posting on the DadCentral.ca addresses the particular challenges facing Aboriginal dads within the historical trauma experienced in their communities. It discusses how accepting the challenges of parenting can assist in building self-esteem and a sense of personal pride through the experiential learning of the parenting process.
Read MoreHealing Families, Helping Systems is a trauma-informed practice guide for working with children, youth and families, produced by the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (2016). The guide, designed for use by system planners, leaders and practitioners in the field of children, youth, and families, aims to identify trauma-informed approaches, raise awareness of evidence-informed approaches to trauma-informed service delivery, and to increase capacity amongst service providers.
Read MoreThe Public Health Agency of Canada has recently released a new chapter of the Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines. Chapter 6: “Breastfeeding”
Read MoreStorybooks Canada is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. It makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada. They are also in the process of developing Indigenous Storybooks and the Global Storybooks literacy portal. The aim is to enjoy and share the stories.
Read MoreThrough the Province’s Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (ELCC) with the Government of Canada, the Province is in the process of converting around 2,500 licensed child care spaces – with a priority on infant and toddler spaces – into low-cost spaces at existing child care facilities across B.C. Parents with children in these prototype sites will pay no more than $200 a month per child for full-time enrolment during regular business hours, regardless of the care type. For some low-income families, child care could be free.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Children and Family Development is currently re-organizing the early years’ services that directly support children and families. For more information about the re-organization process and links to the Early Years Framework policy document, FAQs about the re-organization, the Early Years Professional Development pilot portal, and The Science of Early Child Development (SECD) resources, click here.
Read MoreThe IMHP Community Training live sessions/webinars have been completed. All the sessions are now archived and available for viewing. These sessions are great for staff and or student training and can be accessed any time by all AHSUNC/CAPC/CPNP project staff until 2020.
Read MoreAt the start of the 2018/19 academic year, the University of British Columbia welcomes Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot, and Dr. Margaret Moss to their leadership roles within the university, and announces new funding for the nurse practitioner program and for an online, part-time ECE certificate program.
Read MoreThe Public Health Agency of Canada notes on their website that “today, most mothers are breastfeeding their babies” and has produced a booklet Ten Valuable Tips for Successful Breastfeeding, available as a downloadable pdf, or for ordering as a free booklet to hand out to participants.
Read MoreBest Start Resource Centre is offering a free,bilingual, self-paced, online course on breastfeeding, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Breastfeeding, set up in an easy-to-access “Topics” format.
Read MoreCo-developed by the federal government with the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapirit Kanatami and the Métis National Council, this newly-announced IELCC Framework includes 3 frameworks (First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation). First Call member BC Aboriginal Child Care Society and their Executive Director Karen Isaac worked many hours on the development of this national framework and led the BC regional consultations in the lead up to this announcement.
Read MoreFive Ideas for Building Intergenerational Relationships looks at the award-winning work of Maria Cortese to educate the whole child with her junior kindergarten class, building relationships with older adults living in the neighbourhood adjoining her school, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in the Lower Mainland.
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