Webinar- Engaging Families of Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities: Strategies to Enhance Your Practice
Engaging families can be a challenge, particularly if their infant or toddler has a disability or may show signs of developmental delay. Families of children with disabilities are often deluged by service providers and advice from early intervention teams, therapists, doctors, and other professionals. Join
this session to learn strategies for enhancing family engagement practices for your program as well as your staff’s confidence in building culturally responsive partnerships with families of the infants and toddlers with disabilities included in your program.
Resource: Raising Teens in a New Country: A Guide for the Whole Family
This guide was created for parents and teens who are new to the U.S, and for service providers who are working with newcomer families. It's full of great information and conversation starters that could be used in parent or teen workshops and supports.
Multilingual information for parents: Free prescriptions for children and youth in Ontario
In Ontario, children and youth (age 24 years old and under) now have access to free prescription drug coverage, regardless of family income. You can find helpful information and multilingual resources that can be shared with the families in your program
here.
Growing Together Toolkit for mothers and babies
The
Growing Together Toolkit is for community service providers who support mothers and their young children and families. The toolkit presents strategies to build healthy relationships with babies and toddlers and focuses on mothers who are dealing with depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma or other challenging life circumstances.
Meal planning made easy for parents and caregivers
Healthy eating helps children grow and thrive, but managing mealtimes and helping children develop healthy eating habits can be challenging! This helpful new resource includes:
sample menus, checklists, ideas for picky eaters and saving money, simple, healthy, kid-friendly recipes and more... (Available in English and French)
Fire Safety At Home – Multilingual Resource for Parents
Help the families in your program stay safe with these
basic fire safety tip sheets that are available in Arabic, Bosnian, Somali and Spanish.
Child Safety Information for Parents – Available in 12 languages
Help parents understand how to keep their children safe with these
multilingual checklists on topics like home, child and car seat safety.
Safe Kids Week June 5-11
Injury is the leading cause of death for children in Canada.
Parachute’s Safe Kids Week is dedicated to educating families, caregivers and children on ways to stay safe. This year, the focus is on promoting safe and active transportation: Walk, Bike and Wheel. There is a tip sheet for parents that you can download, posters, plus a community toolkit available for purchase that helps you plan and host activities for families.
You can also sign up for Parachute’s
free online course on Child Injury Prevention. It is for people working with families who have children aged 0-6.
Sun Safety
Sun safety is not just about summer–it’s a year-round practice. But with summer here, it’s also a time when more families are out enjoying the beautiful Canadian summer. It's an opportunity to help parents and to also review your program practices. The
Canadian Dermatology Association offers many resources that you can share, including:
• tipsheets for parents, daycares and summer camp;
• posters and colouring pages; and
•
a cartoon video for kids on sun safety.
Video Clips for Parent Meetings
From flu prevention tips to information about food groups, the dangers of blind cords and the importance of vaccinations, this collection of more than
100 short clips teaches about topics that are relevant to all families. The colourful videos also use simple language paired with strong visuals, making them excellent for use in parent meetings or the ESL classroom.
