BRIGHTER FUTURES
Services
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In-home Support Services
Offer one-on-one family support, parenting skills, resiliency, relationship building strategies and positive child development strategies all in the comfort of your home!
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Nutritional Supports
Families in need may be eligible to receive monthly fresh food hampers of fruit and vegetables. Children (1-5 years of age) may be eligible to receive multivitamin supplements if required.
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Connections to Community Resources
Information and referral - Brighter Futures can connect you to community services and health professionals.
We provide assistance in supporting basic needs when required.
CORE
SERVICES
- Information and referral services
- Home visitation and personal family support services
- Nutrition and basic needs support
- Parent education workshops, training and presentations
- Parent-child play and learn groups
- Community engagement events, networking and partnerships
Brighter Futures Programs
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Let's Get Cooking
A cooking and nutrition program that provides training in food budgeting, meal planning, preparation and food storage. The goal of this monthly program is to teach families how to prepare and cook a low cost and nutritious meal
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Active Parenting
A four session parent education program that emphasizes nonviolent discipline, mutual respect and open communication. It provides real strategies for parents and caregivers to improve parenting practice's, improve child behavior and development and build healthier relationships in the home
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Nobody's Perfect
Parents participate in facilitated sessions that promote positive parenting; increase parents understanding of children's health, safety and behavior's; help parents build on the skills they have and learn new ones; improve parents self-esteem and coping skills, increase self-help and mutual support. bring them in contact with community services and resources and help prevent family violence.
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Taming The Dragon
Early childhood development program designed to improve the social and emotional development of children 4-6 years of age. The program helps children to understand feelings and emotions, as well as identify and utilize appropriate responses to their feelings. The program helps children discover: happy, sad/lonely, afraid, curious, angry and sorry. It builds emotional capacity, empathy and resiliency.
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Sunbeams
A ten session program for children ages 3-6 years who may or have experienced loss in their family and are in need of developing appropriate coping mechanisms for grief and trauma. Children learn and work through the grief process to enable them to cope with stress of divorce, separation or loss and learn to build trusting relationships with peers, teddy bears and healthy adults. Sunbeam’s is the gateway program to Rainbows which is designed for older children and further builds emotional capacity.
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Healthy Kids
Parent-child learning through play groups that feature physical activity and fitness, nutrition and kids cooking (little chefs), promote mental health and safety, improve emotional wellbeing and early childhood resiliency.
Toy & Resource Library
Families can also access the CRC Toy and Resource Library by purchasing an annual $10 membership. The Toy and Resource Lending Library will help you keep up with your child's rapidly changing developmental needs and access up-to-date parent resource materials.
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Toys, resources and breast pumps are lent for two weeks and families can borrow up to four items per visit. Belonging to the library can save families money and is helpful for all caregivers. ​​