This extremely practical guide, based on cognitive behaviour therapy principles, offers information and exercises to support women in dealing with depression during pregnancy and post-partum.
Read MoreThe Letters to Canada video documents the thoughts of Canadian children on the unequal treatment of First Nations children in Canada.
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How can meetings work more effectively for you? Here are tools for optimizing your agenda, facilitating your meeting, and using evaluation to get practical feedback.
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Check out our report back from the BC Healthy Living Alliance’s recent webinar.
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Collective Impact (CI) describes an innovative technique for working collectively in community to address complex social issues. Request for examples in your community!
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After reviewing the historical issues that have created particular ongoing challenges for many Aboriginal families, this paper provides straightforward, accessible practices for parents and caregivers to use to strengthen and support emotional security and attachment in the children they are raising.
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The recently updated BC Injury Prevention Directory is a useful reference tool for those working with children and families, providing a listing of injury-prevention initiatives in BC along with contact information for the organizations responsible for managing each initiative.
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Upcoming training opportunities from around the province. Includes Annual Provincial BC ACCS Training Conference, Heart-Mind 2013 and Family FUNdamentals.
Read MoreABCD 101 presented by John McKnight of the Asset Building Community Development Institute. This excellent series of short videos gives a down-to-earth primer on Asset-Based Community Development – a useful introduction or review of basic principles, delivered in a gentle and relaxed style with clear illustrations of the key building blocks.
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“A childhood obesity intervention developed by families for families: results from a pilot study” (International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013)
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The article presents information on Aboriginal women in the context of their risk of homicide, self-reported spousal victimization and self-reported non-spousal victimization.
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With a Provincial Election around the corner, First Call has once again published an elections kit that will help parents, professionals, advocates and concerned citizens make sure that issues relating to children and youth are heard this May.
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On March 1, 2013, Dr Carl J. Dunst presented a summary of his work on “A Straightforward Approach to Surveying Parents for Measuring and Improving Program Practices” to the Early Childhood Development Project, describing the foundations for and key elements of the ECD Evaluation Project Parent Survey.
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Everything Present in the Seed, a new literacy level leadership manual that can be used by organizations to train volunteers in how to build community.
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In early March your Keeping in Touch team attended a BC Healthy Communities webinar on building resilient communities.
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At a recent Pinwheel Education Series event, speakers from SHARE Family and Community Services and the Alan Cashmore Centre discussed how to support cross cultural families.
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