Whats New
Press Release: Success by Six Grant
The Kelowna Family Centre is grateful to the Central Okanagan Success by Six committee for supporting a new group project which focuses on parent-child interaction. The group will support children 2-6 years of age and focuses on primary caregivers (mostly mothers) who are assessed to be at risk of forming poor attachments to their children.
Attachment is defined as the deep emotional connection that a child forms with a main caregiver and research has shown that attachment is an important influence on later emotional, cognitive, and social outcomes, including school behavior.
The caregivers may have poor parenting attachment due to their own past trauma, mental health issues, challenging children, poverty, lack of support, and other stress issues.
The new group will focus on increasing attachment of these children to their caregivers by providing group counselling support and information.
Success By 6® is an early childhood development initiative dedicated to providing all children with a good start in life. It helps to ensure that children ages 0 to 6 develop the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical skills they need as they enter school.
Infant Attachment Groups
-A mother's group that supports improved relationships with their babies.
Specialized Outreach available for older women. -This project received a grant from the Canadian Women's Foundation in partnership with The Body Shop STOP Violence in the Home Fund, the HBC Foundation, Fund the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation Fund, the Scotiabank Fund, the Shelter from the Storm campaign supported by campaign partners Winners, Home Sense, Rogers Media Group and BMO Financial Group, the Social Justice Fund at Tides Canada Foundation (for assistance with B.C. grants) and the Canadian Women's Foundation Violence Prevention Fund, supported by the Aimee Quitevis Memorial Fund, the Tony McNaughton Memorial Fund, the Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation and many individual donors across Canada".
Please call the Centre at 250.860.3181 for information on these new programs.
