We look at the new design criteria guide for outdoor play spaces, Seven Cs, produced by Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, along with a recent blog posting by Dr. Beverlie Dietze of Okanagan College on The Importance of Increasing Children’s Outdoor Play Opportunities, written for the Canadian Child Care Federation.
Read MoreThe Best Start Resource Centre, with funding from the Government of Ontario, has produced a new resource booklet, Learning from Stories: Breastfeeding and Younger Women, available online.
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 More“Back to the Future”: A recent study looks at the value of recreating natural Indigenous language learning environments through language nest early childhood immersion programs.
Read MoreIn March 2016, the Office of the Correctional Investigator recommended increasing participation in mother-child units in federal prisons, particularly minimum-to-medium security prisons, enabling children up to the age of 4 years old to stay with their mothers, and allowing mothers access to health and social programs.
Read MoreThe Healthy Eating & Food Security action guide is available for download. The action guide is designed to assist local governments to support healthy eating and food security in communities, sharing practices and examples of how local governments can create conditions that support healthy communities.
Read MoreAn article on “Why We Should Teach Empathy to Preschools” from the mindful website looks at the Golestan school in Berkeley founded by an Iranian educator whose commitment to empathy training was inspired by her own experience of bullying at school as a new immigrant when she was 9 years old. Click here to learn more and to access a simple tool offering four regular practices for reinforcement of empathy in children.
Read MoreThe summer 2016 edition of Every Mind Matters, the regular newsletter of the Psychology Foundation of Canada, includes an article, focusing on research on the value of free play as a preventative to the elevated levels of stress and anxiety which are being increasingly recorded in children.
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 MoreHELP. Everyone needs help at some time or another, a collection of voices of young parents in Greater Vancouver, was released in April 2016 as part of the Young Parents Study being run by UBC and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR/IRSC).
Read MoreDad Central’s My Dad Matters was developed to address the changed circumstances of programming for fathers in today’s Canadian society.
Read MoreTwo articles in the Spring 2016 edition of The Early Childhood Educator focus on support for refugee families as agencies respond to the ongoing intake of refugees from Syria and the Middle East. There is a review of the findings of the recent CMAS review of global research on caring for refugee children and an article from the local perspective of supporting incoming refugees, from CVIMS in Nanaimo.
Read MoreA pair of new international studies, funded by the Government of Canada through Grand Challenges Canada and published this July, further strengthen scientific understanding of the links between what a child experiences in the first years of life and later childhood behaviour and abilities.
Read MoreThe Canadian Mental Health Association (CPMA) BC Division are now delivering the Confident Parents: Thriving Kids program, a family-focused coaching service effective in reducing mild to moderate behavioural problems and promoting healthy child development in children ages 3-12.
Read MoreWomen expecting a baby can access a new Pregnancy Passport, developed by Perinatal Services BC, to help them have a healthy pregnancy, track their progress, and prepare for their baby.
Read MoreFind out where BC stands in the 2016 edition of the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) "Are We Doing Enough?" Report.
Read MoreThe American Academy of Sleep Medicine, with the help of a panel of experts, has released its first ever official recommendations for how much sleep children need on a daily basis.
Read MoreCheck out the colourful range of resource materials from Parachute’s Safety Awareness Week, celebrating twenty years of injury prevention.
Read MoreWorkplace mental health was address in a discussion on “The Employee Factor” in Healthy Minds Canada’s Mindful Employer series last month.
Read Moren a two-part editorial on discipline, A Playful Approach to Discipline, Dr. Gordon Neufeld discusses the root causes of problem behaviour and their surprisingly playful solutions.
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