Kelty Mental Health have issued their second edition of the Healthy Living…It’s in Everyone toolkit. Available in seven languages, it is designed to provide a guide to healthy living for families who have a child or youth living with mental health challenges, and provides ideas for Healthy Eating, Being Active Together, Managing Stress, and Developing Healthy Sleep Habits.
Read MoreDesigned to support the work you are already doing in your programs, the Resilience Guide offers supports for understanding the impacts and developmental effects of trauma and resettlement, along with strategies and tips to help strengthen families’ capacity for resilience.
Read MoreA BC Council for Families blog, by April Martin-Ko looks at the benefits of self-directed, self-chosen, imaginative play for children and outlines its impacts on child development.
Read MoreA new UBC study on Parental Awareness of Screen Time Recommendations for Children Less Than Two Years of Age looks at parents’ awareness of the Canadian Paediatric Society’s recommendations issued last year and real-life screen time usage by infants and toddlers.
Read MoreLynn Lyons, in her blog on how to deal with anxiety as a family and managing anxiety in children, explains how parents can model the behaviours they would like to help their children develop and, in the doing so, teach process skills that will build children’s problem-solving capacity.
Read MoreTanya Lieberman, host of the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog, recently interviewed Penny Simkin about breastfeeding issues for mothers who are survivors of sexual abuse. In the interview, Penny talked about breastfeeding for survivors of early sexual abuse, including common feelings of survivors about breastfeeding and ways that breastfeeding support people can support survivors.
Read MoreHeart 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 MoreUnderstanding mothers experiencing homelessness: A gendered approach to finding solutions for family homelessness, a report produced for the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press, looks at the experiences of mothers and children in dealing with homelessness and makes recommendations for interventions based on trauma-informed care.
Read MoreThe Public Health Agency of Canada and the BC Council for Families presented a webinar on March 23, 2017 to present an overview of the Growing Together: Supporting the mental health and wellness of young children, mothers, and their families Toolkit, designed to support service providers working with mothers with mental health, substance use, and other challenges, and their families.
Read MoreIn this factsheet, “8 Things to Remember About Child Development”, featured in the From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts report, the Center on the Developing Child sets out a group of key issues around early child development.
Read MoreAlberta Family Wellness Initiative has released a working paper on the effects of stress on child and how negative experiences in childhood can impose large costs on brain health and development later in life development, as part of the their Brain Story project on brain development.
Read MoreThe respected medical journal, The Lancet, has published a groundbreaking series on early child development, “Advancing Early Childhood Development from Science to Scale.” The 3-part series argues that the growing social and economic costs to nations of under-investment in prenatal and early childhood development are unsustainable. In their review of a wide range of international programs, the findings demonstrate that the best results combine what's known as "nurturing" care with basic health, nutrition, and cognitive programs.
Read MoreThe Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Child Rights Toolkit was inspired by the need to improve children’s access to justice in Canada. It is designed for professionals working in legal and administrative decision-making who want to better understand and implement a child rights based approach in practice and strengthen their advocacy for children.
Read MoreParents as First Teachers is one of a series of resource booklets available through FNHA to support First Nations and Métis parents in BC.
Read MoreECE professionals and primary school teachers in the Comox Valley are working collaboratively to facilitate children’s school entry. Read more about the tools and supports they have created to facilitate this significant transition point in the lives of children in their community.
Read MoreA series of LGBTQ Parenting Tip Sheets, produced by BC Council for Families (BCCF), has been designed to support LGBTQ parents, and the professionals they work with in community organizations, around parenting issues and options.
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 MoreFor everyone located in BC, free access is now available to a range of online educational ECD resources through the Science of Early Child Development (SECD) project, in partnership with the BC Provincial Government.
Read MoreFor decades, Participaction has encouraged Canadians to stay active and improve health. Their 2016 report Are Canadian Kids Too Tired to Move? focuses on the important inter-relationship between sleep and energy in children.
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