About Community Action Program for Children

The Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) is an ECD program with service providers that aim to improve healthy development of children age 0-6 living in conditions of risk.

Conditions of risk include :

low socioeconomic status
social isolation
teen pregnancy
situations of violence or neglect
substance use and addictions
children experiencing developmental delays or social, emotional, and behavioural problems

Special consideration is given to Metis, Inuit and off-reserve First Nations children, the children of recent immigrants and refugees, children in lone-parent families and children who live in remote and isolated communities.

As service providers with the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) we work to help vulnerable pregnant women to stay healthy and have healthy babies by reducing the incidence of unhealthy birth weights and improve the health of both infant and mother. CPNP projects also increase availability of culturally sensitive prenatal support for Aboriginal women.

Community-based groups and coalitions receive support to increase access to health and social supports for prenatal and recently postpartum women facing challenging circumstances such as:

poverty
teen pregnancy
social and geographic isolation
recent arrival to Canada
substance abuse
family violence
poor access to services