Searching for Young Parents

• Community Participation volunteer placements
• Job Search Programs are based on individual's skills, experience and circumstances
• Employment Placement is a job matching service
• Basic Education is a basic adult upgrading program for high school upgrading
• English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, literacy and basic skills
• Job Skills Training development of skills for specific jobs and on-the-job training
• Supports to Self-Employment offers referrals to self-employment programs

• helps young parents finish high school, improve parenting skills, locate and maintain employment

• on site for walk-in job search centre with access to computers, Internet, fax, photocopier, telephone; resource materials, job banks, labour market information
• provides assistance with resumes
• referrals to job counselling and training

• Community Participation volunteer placements
• Job Search Programs are based on individual's skills, experience and circumstances
• Employment Placement is a job matching service
• Basic Education is a basic adult upgrading program for high school upgrading
• English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, literacy and basic skills
• Job Skills Training development of skills for specific jobs and on-the-job training
• Supports to Self-Employment offers referrals to self-employment programs

• helps young parents finish high school, improve parenting skills, locate and maintain employment

• on site for walk-in job search centre with access to computers, Internet, fax, photocopier, telephone; resource materials, job banks, labour market information
• provides assistance with resumes
• referrals to job counselling and training

Supports to help parents complete high school, enhance their parenting skills, and prepare them to enter the workforce

Learning - Promotes high school graduation * requires participants to regularly attend an educational program that leads to a high school diploma

Earning - Encourages participants to enter school co-op programs and well as part-time or summer employment

Parenting - Supports parents to become effective caregivers * provides list of available parenting programs

Participants in the program may be eligible for:

• financial assistance with school activities
• planned parenting activities
• subsidized child care
• transportation cost assistance
• $500 incentive upon graduation

Supports to help parents complete high school, enhance their parenting skills, and prepare them to enter the workforce

Learning - Promotes high school graduation * requires participants to regularly attend an educational program that leads to a high school diploma

Earning - Encourages participants to enter school co-op programs and well as part-time or summer employment

Parenting - Supports parents to become effective caregivers * provides list of available parenting programs

Participants in the program may be eligible for:

• financial assistance with school activities
• planned parenting activities
• subsidized child care
• transportation cost assistance
• $500 incentive upon graduation

Home visiting program for pregnant young women expecting their first child

Eligible women are connected with a public health nurse who provides information and support through pregnancy, birth and infancy of the child to 2 years of age * visits focus on having a healthy pregnancy, child development, breastfeeding, parenting and community resources and supports

• Prenatal Health Care
• Baby Development
• Breast Feeding/Formula
• Bathing/Diapering/Nutrition
• Bonding/Attachment/Postpartum
• Budgeting
• Household Management
• Caring for yourself
• Infant/Toddler Safety Issues

• for children and youth 8-18 years
• diagnosis and treatment
• inpatient and outpatient programs
• family education

• harm reduction approach
• assessment, individual and group treatment
• day treatment with academic program
• parent support

• health care for adolescent mothers and their children
• nutrition and feeding
• parenting education

• focuses on illness-specific issues for youth with chronic health conditions
• identification and reduction of high-risk health behaviours
• health care for marginalized and at-risk populations including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, street-involved teens, and immigrant and newcomer adolescents
• advocacy