Further exploring research that has shown that children born to adolescent mothers generally perform more poorly on school readiness assessments than their peers born to adult mothers, a broad-based study published in February of this year explores links between lower school readiness for the children and grandchildren of women who gave birth in their teens, demonstrating multi-generational effects.
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Healing Families, Helping Systems is a trauma-informed practice guide for working with children, youth and families, produced by the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (2016). The guide, designed for use by system planners, leaders and practitioners in the field of children, youth, and families, aims to identify trauma-informed approaches, raise awareness of evidence-informed approaches to trauma-informed service delivery, and to increase capacity amongst service providers.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada has recently released a new chapter of the Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines. Chapter 6: “Breastfeeding”
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Zero to Three have produced an online resource A Year of Play to encourage parents to browse and find fun seasonal activities that promote child development through interactive play.
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