Early Years Support Services Registry
This is a resource for health, early learning and child care professionals in York Region who wish to refer a young child or their family for support services. It provides information about programs and services available including information regarding eligibility and referral.
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| Healthy Babies, Health Children Program | A home visiting program offered by York Region Public Health. Healthy Babies Healthy Children provides eligible families with information, support and connections to community resources. |
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| Transition to Parenting | A program offered to mothers with babies up to one year of age and pregnant women who are experiencing mood changes, including anxiety or depression, or are looking for support while adjusting to parenthood. This program provides information, support and resources to help women cope and feel better and is led by public health nurses who cover topics like:
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| Bounce Back & Thrive | Bounce Back and Thrive! (BBT) is a ten-week skills training course to teach parents and caregivers with children under eight years of age about coping with stress. Participants learn skills to help themselves and children feel less stressed and more hopeful about the future. |
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| Watch, Wait, Wonder | Watch Wait and Wonder is an intervention that works directly and immediately with the infant/child parent relationship to foster the development of a secure attachment through empowering the infant in the therapy and enhancing maternal sensitivity and responsiveness. |
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| Positive Parenting Program | Triple P - Positive Parenting Program is one of the most effective evidence-based parenting programs in the world, backed up by more than 35 years of ongoing research. Triple P gives parents simple and practical strategies to help them build strong, healthy relationships and confidently manage their children’s behavior while preventing potential problems that may be developing. Triple P issued in more than 25 countries and has been shown to work across cultures, socio-economic groups and in many different kinds of family structures. The Triple Positive Parenting Program is delivered in various formats including brief face-to-face or telephone interventions, seminars and groups. |
