Read one woman’s personal experience with Finding Balance as a New Working Mom on the Kelty Mental Health website blog.
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The Reproductive Mental Health pages on the BC Mental Health website provide resources for individuals and professionals, including self-care guides, factsheets, and practice guidelines.
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The Hand in Hand Developmental Support Resource is designed for use with children at risk, particularly children involved with child welfare, and created as a part of the Infant Mental Health and Family Law Initiative.
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Dad Central Ontario has produced a digital manual for new dads with tips on the practical aspects of being a first time father.
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What 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.
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The US National Birth Defects Prevention Network, which held its annual Birth Defects Prevention Month in January 2015, has produced a downloadable resource package and a range of online resources as part of their awareness campaign.
Read MoreThe Mayo Clinic website includes an “Experts Answer” page on Infant and Toddler Health where experts address parents’ questions on a variety of topics. This month looks at breast-feeding and weight loss, low milk supply and whether to wake a newborn for feedings.
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A new study is the first to detail the weight loss patterns of exclusively breastfed newborns, producing an online tool to help pediatricians determine whether exclusively breastfed newborns have lost too much weight in the first days of life.
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In her November 2014 article for Slate, titled “Common-Sense, Science-Based Advice on Toddler Screen Time: Finally!”, author Lisa Guernsey argues the need to accept the reality of ‘smart’ devices as an integrated part of our life in current society, and find ways of using them as part of our interactions with young children, rather than trying to keep our infants and toddlers isolated from access.
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Recent studies by Dr. Megan Holmes and her team demonstrate links between exposure of pre-school-aged children to intimate partner violence and later emotional and behavioural issues in elementary school.
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In a Jan 25 blog post, Cris Rowan, of Zone’in Consulting, writes about “Child Mental Illness – Have we individualized what is really a systemic problem?” and presents her “8 System Initiative to Enhance Child Development and Learning”.
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The BC Council for Families is offering two Growing Together Toolkit training webinars (Feb 25 and 26) for community service providers. The toolkit is designed to assist mothers coping with life challenges to build healthy relationships with their babies.
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An updated version of the Too Hot for Tots!: Educator’s Handbook is now available for downloading.
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How to Build a Secure Attachment Bond with Your Baby, produced by Helpguide.org, gives information and parenting tips for creating a strong attachment relationship with a baby.
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Two programs offered by The Childhood Obesity Foundation support BC children and families in becoming fitter and healthier.
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.
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The Pacific Post Partum Support Society (PPPSS) has produced a series of short video interviews with families working through the symptoms of post-partum depression/anxiety (PPD/A).
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Kelty Mental Health provides a useful Attachment Theory resource sheet.
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The First Nations Health Authority has produced a new Safe Infant Sleep Toolkit Honouring Our Babies Safe Sleep Cards & Guide. Responding to research findings that, in BC, First Nations and Aboriginal babies have higher risk of SIDS death, this tool kit is designed to help service providers discuss safe sleep practices to help reduce the risk factors.
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