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Partner organizations:

Offord Centre for Child Studies
www.offordcentre.com

Malatest Program Evaluation & Market Research
www.malatest.com

Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation and Research Unit
www.spheru.ca

Holy Family RCSSD#140
www.holyfamilyrcssd.ca

Christ the Teacher RCSSD
www.yorktoncatholicschools.com

South East Cornerstone School Division
www.cornerstonesd.ca

Prairie Valley School Division
www.pvsd.ca

Good Spirit School Division
www.gssd.ca

Horizon School Division
www.hzsd.ca

File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council
www.fhqtc.com
Touchwood Agency Tribal Council
http://www.sicc.sk.ca/bands/tctac.html

Sun Country Health Region
www.suncountry.sk.ca

Sunrise Health Region
www.sunrisehealthregion.sk.ca

Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region
www.rqhealth.ca

Weyburn ECIP
www.weyburnecip.com

Parkland Regional Library
www.parkland.lib.sk.ca

Southeast Regional Library
www.southeast.lib.sk.ca

KidsFirst
http://www.education.gov.sk.ca/KidsFirst

SIGN (Society for the Involvement of Good Neighbours)
www.sign-yorkton.org

Social Services
www.socialservices.gov.sk.ca

 

Parenting Websites:  

Parents Matter – site for parents and facilitators providing an extensive Inventory of available programs and services.  This site includes program rating, information on the cost of implementation as well links to a wide variety of sites.  An excellent resource. 
www.parentsmatter.ca

Invest in Kids – An excellent website for parents and professionals including the Comfort, Play and Teach series with Tips Sheets for parents. 
http://www.investinkids.ca

40 Developmental Assets -  a Population Based approach to parenting widely accepted throughout the province by both Health and Education. 
http://www.search-institute.org/assets/

 

Government Sites:

Parents' Health Services
http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/parent-services

Information you need about becoming a parent, birthing, dealing with infants, young kids and adolescents

http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/parenting

Information and advice about the healthy development of your baby

http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/infant-care-development

Safety in the Home and Community

http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/safety

Nutrition in Pregnancy: The Best for You and Your Baby

http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/nutrition-during-pregnancy

Early Learning and Child Care -  Check out this site for Child Care information
http://www.education.gov.sk.ca/ELCC

Family Service Canada
www.familyservicecanada.org

Saskatchewan Literacy Network
http://www.sk.literacy.ca

Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network
www.aboriginal.sk.literacy.ca

Parenting Education Saskatchewan
http://www.parenteducationsask.ca

Aboriginal Headstart Program
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/dca-dea/programs-mes/ahs_main_e.html

 

Early Childhood Associations:

Saskatchewan Early Childhood Association
http://www.skearlychildhoodassociation.ca

Canadian Childcare Federation
http://www.cccf-fcsge.ca/home_en.html

  

Research and Education:

Canadian Council for Learning
www.ccl-cca.ca

Centre for Families Work and Well Being
http://www.worklifecanada.ca

Early Childhood Intercultural Partnerships
http://www.ecdip.org

Early Learning Canada
http://www.caslpa.ca/english/resources/elc.asp

National Strategy for Early Literacy
http://nsel.cllrnet.ca

Canadian Centre for Knowledge Mobilization
www.cckm.ca

Canadian Institute of Child Health
www.cich.ca/index_eng.html

Council for Early Childhood development
www.councilecd.ca

The Founders Network
www.founders.net

Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development (CEECD)
www.excellence-earlychildhood.ca

Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development
www.child-encyclopedia.com

Council for Early Childhood Education
http://www.councilecd.ca/

Saskatchewan Prevention Institute
www.preventioninstitute.sk.ca

 

 

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Ruth Barker - Community Coordinator - UEY Project Prairie Children... Prairie Futures  ruth.barker@holyfamilyrcssd.ca
Ph: 306.848.4371 C: 306.861-5021   Fax: 306.842.7033  Holy Family RCSSD - 110 Souris Ave. Weyburn, SK S4H 2Z8

The Understanding the Early Years initiative is funded by Human Resources and Social Development Canada. For further information, visit www.hrsdc.gc.ca