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Please join us for our regular monthly meeting!
- Wiggle, Giggle & Munch is a program that offers a time for parents and their 1 – 4 year old children to have fun together with active play and a healthy snack.
- You are invited to come and learn how to lead this exciting parent/child program.
- Learn more about welcoming newcomer families into your programs
- Erika Frey and Molly Dunbar, Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Workers in West Central/ Downtown area, will be sharing their experience
- Join us for coffee and refreshments
DMSMCA`s 8th annual Summer Fest is a month away! Mark your calendars for Saturday August 6th because you won`t want to miss the jam packed day full of live music, carnival games, bouncy slide, workshops, face painting, henna, crafts, and so much more! And bring the whole family and your neighbours too because it`s all free and happening at Jacob Penner Park.
Aaron Burnett – the Juno-nominated family entertainer and singer will be performing Tuesday, August 16: 6:30-7:15 pm.
Call the library at 204-986-4677 to register.
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting!
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting!
In this 1 day training, we will address some of the emotional health and well-being challenges when working with the 0-6 age group in a family literacy setting. It is designed for family literacy practitioners, early years staff in childcare centres and schools, and others working to support families with young children in the development of learning skills.
Our annual planning meeting is a full day event to consider our direction for the future. Please join us for planning and lunch.
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting!
Come and learn how to make Book Bags for your family or community group
You will learn:
- About the importance of Family literacy
- How to make a Book Bag
You will take home a Book Bag and make an additional one for our Family Literacy celebrations.
The Book Bags workshop is $10 for those who live in or serve members of the downtown area. For participants outside the downtown area there will be a fee of $60.
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting!
Wiggle, Giggle & Munch facilitator training will be held on Wednesday, February 22. The deadline for registration is February 15.
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting!
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting! (note change in date)
Please join us for our regular monthly meeting!
Our AGM celebrating our work and introducing:
- our new Book 4 Babies – Time to Play!
- and our latest study – Dreams & Realities: A Community Survey
In this workshop participants will have an opportunity to explore the importance of “managed risk” in children’s play to keep them engaged and learning. Content is geared towards those working with children from birth to 6 years of age.
Make a Book Bag to use with your pre-school children.
Call Nikhat at 204.943.8765 if you are interested in this workshop.
Book Bags making workshop for families based on the book, Time to Play!
Thrive Community Support Circle in support of Family Week is offering a workshop for parents/caregivers to come together to make a Book Bag which will contain books, games, activities and more.
Childminding at the daycare and parents go to 4-505 Sargent Ave.
Join us to learn what Thrive Community Support Circle is doing to address the questions they are hearing from their parents. Their small idea is meeting with some great success.
Bring your lunch and hear more at our first Lunch & Learn.
Tuesday, November 28
At Thrive Community Support Circle, Suite 5 – 505 Sargent Ave.
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Consider sending a couple of people from your agency – maybe a staff person and a volunteer or student. And please share the attached poster with others who might be interested in joining the discussion.
We try to meet annually to plan and talk about our initiatives. This year we have invited Bohdanna Kinasevych, Director of Evaluation, Health in Common to lead our discussion.
Please RSVP ingrid@communities4families.ca by Dec. 1.
Join us for our Family Literacy celebration. Books and activities especially for very young children.
Learn to develop a Book Bag to share with your family participants. This is part 1 of a 2 part series.
Learn to develop a Book Bag to share with your family participants. This is the second of a 2 part series.
Communities 4 Families is pleased to present another Family Play
opportunity.
- Outdoor play
- Parents and children together
- Special activities geared towards toddlers and pre-schoolers
- Snack
- No registration required
- Free
Please join us for our monthly meeting (that was moved from May 16th to the 23rd this month).
Communities 4 Families (C4F) invites groups or organizations to apply for grants to support programming for Downtown families with children aged 0-6. These are grants for activities including BOTH parents and their children (aged 0-6), or parenting programs for parents with children ages 0-6. C4F grants support participants who reside within C4F boundaries (see FAQ’s for our map).
Applications can be completed electronically with page 4 faxed (204.487.3630) with signatures, or in hard copy and mailed or faxed.
Note: the deadline for all grant applications is May 25, 2018 (they must be in our office by 5:00 p.m.)