Sharing Best Practices: An Interview with Grace Tait
Grace Tait grew up in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) Vancouver neighbourhood. Encouraged by her mother and her grandfather, she began volunteering as a teenager with Meals on Wheels, and, through that experience, got to know and value many elders in the community. When she became a parent in her early twenties, her family were a great support to her in raising her kids. She worked two or three part-time jobs to support herself and her kids, and her kids went to Ray-Cam Community Centre Daycare. Click here to continue reading!
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Sharing Best Practices: An Interview with Hazel Slape
Hazel has run the CAPC program for 21 years in the small town of Chase, in the Interior of BC, located at the outlet of Little Shuswap Lake, the source of the South Thompson River. The town has a population of roughly 2,500 and its main industries are forestry and tourism. She facilitates the program on her own, as the sole staff person for the program. Click here to continue reading!
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Sharing Best Practices: An Interview with Germaine Asplin
A discernment process for Germaine about the next stages in her personal life has coincided with restructuring in the agency she has worked for, and so she made the decision to explore new opportunities, after coordinating the Victoria’s Best Babies CPNP program for the past 24 years. Click here to continue reading!
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CPNP: Becoming Mobile in Tofino-Ucluelet
The CPNP program in Tofino-Ucluelet is becoming mobile to better serve families in outlying areas of their rural community.
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A Spotlight on AHSUNC: A Special Edition of KIT
The Keeping In Touch team has put together a special edition to turn your focus to Aboriginal Head Start in Northern and Urban Communities (AHSUNC) in British Columbia.
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Family Place Community Parenting Centre: Great Beginnings Program
We spoke this month with JoAnne White and Helena Browett who run the Great Beginnings (CAPC) Program at Family Place Community Parenting Centre in Maple Ridge. Read more about how their program helps parents move from pre-natal to parenting.
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Comox Valley Family Services Association’s “Neighborhood Connections” Initiative
Comox Valley Family Services Association works with local food bank to support pregnant women and families with young children. Read more about the collaborative initiative to connect with hard-to-reach families.
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CPNP Successes: A Postnatal Program in Victoria
Diana Bosworth, M.A., Family Services Coordinator at Esquimalt Neighbourhood House in Victoria, talks with us about their postnatal CPNP program, which operates on two sites in the Greater Victoria area and which forms part of a continuum of care for families through their agency.
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Creston Family Place: a Mom's Story of CAPC Support During Her Child's Illness
Creston Family Place CAPC program have shared a story of how flexible programming can help parents deal with challenging circumstances and encourage parents who have benefited from the program to share the parenting skills they have developed with those just starting out along the parenting road.
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Little Mountain Neighbourhood House PLANE Toolkit: Ideas for Physical Literacy and Nature Exploration with Children
LMNHS, Vancouver, with support from Success by 6, have produced a Toolkit to assist in the development of outdoor programming for children in the natural environment.
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Outdoor Playgroup: Parkgate Community Services
Parkgate Community Services, in North Vancouver, have introduced a drop-in outdoor play program for families, based on the Forest School principles and coordinated by a trained facilitator.
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A Spotlight on CPNP: A Special Edition of KIT
The Keeping In Touch team has put together a special edition to turn your focus to the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program in British Columbia.
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Encompass Support Services Society (Langley): “Spanish Family Power” Program
Encompass Support Services Society (ESSS) is celebrating ten years of its successful “Spanish Family Power” program serving Spanish-speaking immigrant families in the Langley area.
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CAPC Kaslo “Strong Start Parent and Child Time” (SSPACT)
North Kootenay Lake Community Services Society has partnered with their local school to provide a combined evening family drop-in and Strong Start for families that includes a meal and modeling of healthy evening routines for children.
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Celebrating 20 Years of CAPC
CAPC is powered by a dedicated group of professionals across the province. Here, we celebrate its accomplishments with a Special Edition Newsletter.
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Children Need Time to Play Each Day—Unstructured, Outdoor Adventures
A Q&A with Shauna Mokelki, Manager of I hope family centre programs at Family Services of the North Shore, was featured in the September 22, 2014 edition of North Shore News.
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Shuswap Family Resource Centre is Increasing Fitness with “Walk for FIT!”
Shuswap Family Resource Centre in Salmon Arm is in its second year of a free 22-week “Walk for FIT!” walking group to increase fitness for participants in its Healthiest Babies Possible program.
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Okanagan Boys & Girls Clubs – Vernon "Relax and Recharge" program
Okanagan Boys and Girls Club have created a popular “Recharge and Reconnect” Friday drop-in program as part of their CAPC programming.
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Comox Valley Farmer’s Market Nutrition Coupon Program
The Comox Valley Family Services Association partners with the BC Association of Farmer’s Markets to deliver the Farmer’s Market Nutrition Coupon Program in 34 districts across BC.
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Pure Infant Massage: a Tool for Bonding with Baby
Sue Irwin, Certified Infant Massage Instructor, educates parents, caregivers and professionals on how to do infant massage. The easy-to-learn techniques improve parents’ confidence, communication and bonding with their newborn.
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