Storybooks 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.
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The Early Years Community Development Institute (EYCDI) has updated their online guide for Early Years Community Developers as a tool to discover personal strengths and skills for leveraging the knowledge and abilities of the people with whom you work.
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The Population and Public Health Prenatal Care Pathway is a health promotion practice support tool, available on the Perinatal Services BC website, for public health nurses and other healthcare providers working with pregnant women and their families during the prenatal period.
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Upcoming conference dates that you don't want to miss! Get registered.
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Strengthening Neighbourhood Resilience: Opportunities for Communities and Local Government, released in May 2013, is the first report of the BC-based Building Resilient Neighbourhoods project.
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Our Place is a multi-faceted, community-based inner-city initiative, based in the Strathcona area of Vancouver, and focused on developing a coordinated strategy to grow healthy children and families in a healthy community.
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Collective Impact (CI) describes an innovative technique for working collectively in community to address complex social issues. Request for examples in your community!
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Everything Present in the Seed, a new literacy level leadership manual that can be used by organizations to train volunteers in how to build community.
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In early March your Keeping in Touch team attended a BC Healthy Communities webinar on building resilient communities.
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This publication provides a great overview of the Social Determinants of Health and examines 14 key determinates to determine their impact on the health of an individual, family or community.
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We’ve got a jump start on the holidays this year with some celebration ideas from CAPC, CPNP and AHS programs around the province.
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The Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs (FRP Canada) has produced a set of Peer Mentoring Templates and Guides for family support practitioners and volunteers, as part of their Social Inclusion Project.
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