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Caregiver Education Support Services through the Family Resource Network
The Town of Hinton is pleased to announce that we were awarded a two-year grant in spring, 2024 to provide Caregiver Education and Support Services for the Hinton community. This grant was provided through the provincial Family Resource Network, and Hinton is part of the West Yellowhead Family Resource Network.
The Caregiver Education Coordinator is a full-time grant-funded position that offers education and support to caregivers to increase their capacity to create safe, responsive, and nurturing environments and encourage healthy child development. This role involves: developing and presenting workshops; liaising with local, regional, and provincial partners; offering one-on-one support to caregivers; and offering education and resources to families.
Did you know? Ages & Stages Questionnaires provide reliable, accurate development and social-emotional screening for children between birth and age six it will pinpoint developmental progress and catch any potential delays with an interactive questionnaire for parents and children.
Contact our Caregiver Education Coordinator to get started with this free tool!
OUR PROGRAMS
- Caring Connection
- Mini & Me Moments
- Tween Team Network
- Navigating The Teens
- Caregivers Collective
- Growing & Going
- Resources
- Hinton Family Centre
Caring Connection (Formerly 1-1 Caregiver Support)
Join our Caregiver Education Coordinator in a non-judgmental space to talk about the challenges and joys of parenting, to work through specific parenting challenges, and to develop a customized parenting workplan. Sessions are based on educational trainings such as the Positive Parenting Program, Kids Have Stress Too, Talk Box, and Ages and Stages Questionnaires.
Meetings are scheduled based on availability – fill out a registration form here to register for 1-1 support.
New Program for 2025!
This program focuses on creating a targeted social connection for all caregivers and their children that are between the ages of 0-6. This is a separate program from Play&Learn and provides more structured activities for caregivers and children to engage in together.
This program aims to encourage bonding and attachment through the provision of activities designed for both caregiver and child that will focus on shared play. Creating positive, early social experiences for children will help them to develop confidence and become experts at adaptivity.
This program is designed to bring together caregivers and their tweens with a focus on relationship building, support and developmental guidance. This is often a developmental period where relationship breakdown can occur due to tweens needing and wanting more autonomy and independence and their caregivers need to provide the with structure and support for success.
The tween years can be full of emotional ups and downs. By creating fun, interactive events once a month we will help to build those social skills and strengthen the bond between caregivers and their tweens.
Being a teen in today's world comes with it's own unique challenges that caregivers and teens need to know how to safely navigate. One of the most common needs in this age group is a defined need to learn how caregivers and teens can effectively communicate so that teens can feel safe confiding in their caregiver.
This program aims to be a positive, interactive experience for caregivers and teens to learn together through fun and interactive monthly activities. We want to help bridge communication gaps and strengthen trust and mutual respect in families.
Let's work together to set each caregiver and their teen for future transitions into adulthood while carrying these relationships and connections forward.
The focus of this program is to encourage caregivers of children ages 0-18 to come together and focus on self-care, provide emotional support and resources to each other. This program will incorporate monthly activities such as art nights, vision boards or any other activity that promotes self-care.
We understand the demands of being a caregiver and by providing an opportunity once a month for caregivers to focus on themselves, we will aim to increase resiliency by caregivers learning from, supporting and empowering each other. This dedicated space for caregivers will allow them to connect, recharge and strengthen their well-being so they can maintain a balanced and healthy life.
This program is designed to meet the needs of all families with varying ages! By providing monthly activities that encompasses all ages together, we are providing a continuum of support for all ages and enhancing family connections.
All Families