BC Council for Families

Articles

• • Affordable Housing and Quality Child Care: Essential Resources for Young Families
  • By Merissa Myles Parenthood is a role that brings a host of new responsibilities and choices that can make even the most prepared person feel overwhelmed. Children need a healthy home and community to thrive, yet today in Canada many parents find that crucial resources such as clean, safe and...
• • Attachment and Regulation
  • This article by Diane Benoit,  from the Winter 1999 issue of IMPrint, the newsletter of the Infant Mental Health Promotion Project, defines attachment and explains its
• • Attachment Relationships: Quality of Care for Young Children
  • A collection of articles on attachment relationships between infants and caregivers, what influences them and how they impact on an infant's development.
• • Children of Parents with Mental Illness
  • by Diane T. Marsh Parental mental illness has a profound impact on children. 
• • Creating Safer Communities
  • by Carol Matusicky. To reduce crime, we must support families and provide opportunities for children
• • Emotional Trauma in Infancy
  • The aim of this information sheet is to explain the impact of stress and trauma on infant development, and help
• • Giving Children a Healthy Start ... We're all in this together
  • By Dana Brynelsen Our childhood experiences determine how each of us express our unique potential
• • In Brief: The Science of Early Childhood Development
• • Infant Mental Health and Early Care and Education Providers
• • Parenting Skills and Parenting Stress – How do Mothers and Fathers Compare?
  • Experts, academics and parents agree: parenting is one of the most challenging roles of adulthood.
• • Self Regulation: A Cornerstone of Early Childhood Development
  • Caring, consistent relationships with adults provide external supports that are the basis for infants' development of self-regulation.
• • Supporting Home Visiting and Early Intervention Workers through Reflective Supervision
  • Reflective supervision provides an opportunity for staff to refelct on their own work in a safe, supportive environment. A professional, supervisory relationship encourages sharing in an atmosphere of warmth, acceptance, respect, understanding and trust, and it allows for experimentation and...
• • Temperament: A Synthesis of Research
  • Papers in this document include research on temperament and its effect on psychosocial development and self-regulation.
• • The Importance of Parenting
  • A position paper of the BC Council for Families
• • Weaving the safety net(work): The Alberta Home Visitation Network Association
  • By Lavonne Roloff Lavonne Roloff  is the Provincial Director for the Alberta Home Visitation Network Association. For more information about AHVNA, check out the association’s website at www.ahvna.org.