Heart Mind Online have produced a three-minute emotional literacy video featuring an early childhood educator using books that express an emotional arc in order to help pre-school children learn to identify their feelings and relate to feelings in others.
Read MoreDiabetes 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.
Read MoreDr. Lynn Miller of UBC presents a video on anxiety in children as part of the FRIENDS program, which offers a range of techniques for children to use to manage their worries and anxieties.
Read MoreThe communities of Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Hope are cooperating together across their region, in partnership with Live 5-2-1-0, to spread clear, consistent messages about healthy eating to children in their communities.
Read MoreThis video, developed by the Terrace/Kitimat and area Aboriginal Health Improvement Committee, provides insight into indigenous cultural practices around birth. Aboriginal Health, North Health provided funding for this video.
Read MoreNational Child Day was celebrated on November 5. Check out these two videos produced by N’we Jinan in collaboration with school children and youth, celebrating diversity and the strength of indigenous culture.
Read MoreRead, Speak, Sing: Fun ideas for you and your baby is a short video from the Canadian Paediatric Society where three paediatricians from across Canada offer easy, fun suggestions for parents to engage in everyday activities with their infant or young child to help build literacy skills.
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.
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.
Read MoreA four-day Circle of Security Parenting DVD Training will run in Prince George from 3-6 October, offering training for professionals to deliver this program to parents and caregivers.
Read MoreNick Saul, President of Community Food Centres Canada, spoke on the topic of “Health Happens When You Fight for It” as part of the Walrus Talks: Healthy Cities series. To find out more about the philosophy and style of this committed food security advocate, click here.
Read MoreThe provincial Community of Motivational Interviewing Practice is a social learning network that supports professionals to develop & refine their skills. In addition, the community offers cross-sector networking opportunities to broaden connections and collaboration among helping professionals from the non-profit, health authority, government and education sectors.
Read MoreLGBTQ parents can often experience isolation in their parenting. It is an issue that more and more community agencies are addressing. Watch the BC Council for Families video: A Positive Space: Building LGBTQ-Inclusive Programs and Services.
Read MoreIn a recent AMSSA webinar, Professor Dan Hiebert of the Geography Department at UBC, who is engaged internationally with governments and agencies in monitoring and responding to the Syrian refugee crisis, gave a background overview and analysis of the current situation in respect of the crisis.
Read MoreDr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Director HELP, speaks in this short video on the basic principles of Social/Emotional Learning (SEL).
Read MoreThe Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has produced an 11-minute discussion-starter video We All Have a Role: Preventing and Responding to Violence, along with a Community Resource Guide: What Can I Do to Help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls?
Read MoreWhat To Do When Children Hit, a video featured on The Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development website, gives strategies for parents in preventing and dealing with early childhood aggression.
Read MoreSFU professor, Bruce Lanphear, presented the video, Little Things Matter: The Impact of Toxins on the Developing Brain, at the first Prenatal Environmental Health Education Forum in November 2014.
Read MoreThe Children’s Mental Health Learning Series, produced by Alberta Human Services, is designed to provide caregivers, families and professionals with helpful information to increase knowledge and support children and youth with mental health concerns.
Read MoreOn March 27, CBC aired a program on Angry Kids & Stressed Out Parents, as part of its Doc Zone series.
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