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Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Use the checklist to create a healthy daily routine that can help your child get ready for school. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

Creating Routines for Your Child

Repeated tasks make a routine that can help your child to feel relaxed and secure. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

10 Tips for Stopping Aggression

The ten tips in this sheet can help you to respond calmly and consistently to aggressive behaviour. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

Children Learn Through Play

When children play, they’re learning with their bodies by touching, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and moving. Every day, there’s something new to discover. Play also helps them to build social skills, language skills and more! This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

Tips for providing opportunities for mastery and success for young refugee children

English: Tips for providing opportunities for mastery and success for young refugee children
French: Conseils pour fournir aux jeunes enfants réfugiés des occasions de maîtriser leurs habiletés et d’avoir du succès

Tips for creating a safe space for refugee families

English: Tips for creating a safe space for refugee families
French: Comment créer un endroit sécuritaire pour les familles réfugiées

Tips for building relationships with refugee children in your program

English: Tips for building relationships with refugee children in your program
French: Conseils pour établir des liens avec les enfants réfugiés dans votre programme

Responding to a child’s or parent’s traumatic memory

English: Responding to a child’s or parent’s traumatic memory
French: Comment intervenir quand des enfants ou des parents ont des souvenirs traumatisants

Tips for helping refugee children understand and manage big feelings and challenging behaviours

English: Tips for helping refugee children understand and manage big feelings and challenging behaviours
French: Conseils pour aider les enfants réfugiés à comprendre et à gérer leurs émotions fortes et leurs comportements difficiles

The Resilience Guide: Program Strategies for Responding to Trauma in Refugee Children

Many of the things we already do in early childhood programs not only support healthy child development, but also strengthen the capacity for resilience and recovery in young children who have experienced trauma. The Resilience Guide provides information and resources to help you understand the impact of the refugee experience at different ages, developmental effects of trauma and resettlement, and key strategies to strengthen families’ capacity for resilience. It also includes practical tip sheets designed to easily print out and share with your team!