Raising Healthy Kids

In fall 2012 and spring 2013 Parent for Action Now was funded through the Rotary foundation to look at parenting issues. We had an amazing time exploring some of the different challenges faced by new immigrants parenting in Canada and we looked at issues like discipline, stress and supported each other in the challenges we faced. We also tried to bring awareness to some of what we learned about parenting and raising healthy children by creating posters that went up in Early Years and community centres near us in multiple languages like French, Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish.

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PfAN and Childcare

On December 16, 2014 Parents for Action Now went to visit Queen’s Park as part of a workshop series we were doing on childcare. Having discussed the issue, we wanted to see where some of the policy decisions were being made. We were meeting at Davenport Perth NCHC and the MPP of Davenport, Jonah Schein was someone we knew would be sympathetic to the issue. We brought him a letter we wrote and talked about affordability and the lack of subsidized spots.

We were happy MPP Schein’s great op-ed in the Star a couple of months later where he brings up the importance of childcare. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/02/25/queens_park_must_strengthen_ontarios_child_care_supports.html