Growing Up in a New Land – A Guide for Newcomer Parents
The Best Start Resource Centre has announced the publication of a new booklet
for parents of children 0-6 titled
Growing Up in a New Land - A Guide for Newcomer Parents. This booklet contains information on: support for parents, parenting in Canada, keeping your child healthy and safe, taking care of yourself as parents and additional services for newcomer parents.
Paper copies of the booklet can also be ordered at $1.25 each.
Free Webinar: Managing Allergies this School Season
It’s important for children with Anaphylaxis, and those who care for them, to be aware of how to safely manage allergies. Food Allergy Canada has developed the following resources to help families, teachers and caregivers with back-to-school preparations:
Helping You Meet the Requirements: Supporting Parents
When parents come to you for information and assistance, the support you provide helps families adapt to life here in Canada.
This special feature will help you meet new requirements that specifically require all CNC programs to provide information on the topics of immunization, allergies/nutrition, settlement and community resources.
Do you know how to address culture and home language in your program?
"Multicultural Principles in Head Start Programs Serving Child ages Birth to Five" is for any program serving newcomer children. It offers numerous Reflective Questions/Activities intended to provide programs with the opportunity to “take the risk” of addressing culture and home language as they plan their program services.
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Helping You Meet the Requirements: Serious Occurrences
According to the new CNC requirements, in addition to reporting a serious occurrence to IRCC, you now must also inform CMAS. Find out how you can meet the requirement.
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Protect Children’s Health!
Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is an affiliation of groups with overlapping missions to improve children’s environmental health in Canada. Collectively, these organizations have decades of experience dealing with environmental issues, promoting the health and well-being of children. You’ll find useful information in both
English and French
Mental Health of Mothers and Children
The Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development has posted a cluster of articles and papers on the topic of mental health. All of these documents are connected in one way or another to the mental health of mothers and children.
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Forward Development: ELECT and the Newcomer Child
ELECT stands for Early Learning for Every Child Today. It also stands for an integrated early learning framework that is being used in Ontario to help children from ages two-and-a-half- to six-years reach their full potential socially, physically and emotionally.
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Child Abuse is Wrong: What can I do?
This Department of Justice booklet is for the parents and caregivers. It talks about child abuse in families and answers questions about the law on child abuse in Canada.
Updated Occupational Standards now available
The CCHRSC has updated its Occupational Standards for Child Care Administrators for the first time since they were developed in 2006 to ensure they are up-to-date and reflect all the skills, knowledge and abilities administrators may require to work effectively. At the same time, a new Occupational Profile on School-Age Child Care has been created and the Infant Care Profile developed in 2010 has been enhanced. The profiles are addenda to the Occupational Standards for Early Childhood Educators. Read more...
