Esquimalt Neighbourhood House Society’s CPNP programs have developed a flexible format that enables them to easily set up programming in a variety of locations and respond to arising needs within their community. Click here to find out more.

The Langley Infant Mental Health collaborative has produced a public awareness campaign, Talk to Me, Play with Me, Carry Me - #mywellbeingstartswithyou designed to increase parents’ and caregivers’ awareness of the importance that simple everyday interactions can have on the wellbeing and mental health of their baby.

Jen Mantyka, Program Director for Healthiest Babies Possible, serving Surrey, Delta and White Rock, and Carol Dyck, a public health nurse and lactation consultant with Fraser Health, has developed a Breastfeeding Café to serve the needs of mothers who meet the CPNP criteria and are interested in breastfeeding their infants.  To learn more about their experience of setting up their new program, click here.

We interviewed Chelsie Tierney, acting CAPC Site Coordinator in Kimberley, about their Family Supper Night program that allows them to reach out to mothers who are in daytime employment, to offer opportunities for working partners to participate in programming with their families, and for partners to be able to offer some respite cover so women can engage in community or educational activities on their own.

Mark Turner has worked with CAPC at the Hiiye’yu Lelum Society on Vancouver Island since 1996, as Coordinator of the Healthy Children Healthy Futures CAPC, as an active member of Advisories for CAPC provincial and regional training initiatives, and on a National Projects committee. Click here to continue reading!

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!

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!

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!

The CPNP program in Tofino-Ucluelet is becoming mobile to better serve families in outlying areas of their rural community.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.