The 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.
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National 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.
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Planning for Change, produced by Best Start Resource Centre, provides a Facilitator Guide to assist community facilitators in planning and presenting a workshop for First Nations Women about FASD Prevention and Skills for Change.
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Read, 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.
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A number of schools in BC, Ontario and the Yukon are involved in the first wave of the Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative, designed to increase children’s capacity to meet life’s challenges and rise to life’s potential.
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An interdisciplinary UBC team, writing in the BC Medical Journal this October, provide a case review of a 6-year-old child who was referred for counseling for mood and behavioural symptoms, and the positive affect of coordinated community interventions to address issues around poverty and stress for his family.
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A new report shows that a UBC-led group of researchers have moved closer to finding a genetic biomarker for FASD, and we look at two initiatives that provide materials to help encourage men to play an active role in supporting their partner to have an alcohol-free pregnancy.
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Learn about an interactive approach to research that has actively engaged with a rural Aboriginal community to make existing child development measurement tools more effective for local use.
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Worrying results from a research study on infant sleep patterns indicating that unsafe infant sleep practices are still widespread. Read more here about the study, its findings and recommendations.
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You can take effective individual action! Out of their commitment to re-engaging their own children with nature, two British dads have created a book project and website to provide encouragement for others interested in following their example.
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Learn about the Healthy Together program, designed to foster healthy weights for children at risk including children in care (0-18) and their families. The Bridge Youth & Family Services in Kelowna have played a key role in the development of the program.
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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.
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The 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.
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“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.
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In 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.
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The 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.
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An 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.
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The 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.
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