Caring for Canada’s Children was an online training event offered by Mothercraft 2009-2010, and can be found archived on the Mothercraft website.
Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Mothercraft offered Caring for Canada’s Children training course for settlement workers and other professionals working with newcomer families and children from birth to age six. The two-year online training program covered many topics, including:
The effects of migration policy on family reorganization
Adaptations to parenting: Healthy family functioning
The Challenges to cultural and geographic dislocation
The global worker: Cultural competence in the settlement sector.
Mothercraft is seeking renewed funding to support updated training to include a training manual and future professional training.
If you participated in Mothercraft’s Caring for Canada’s Children, and have feedback, please respond to the following questions via email to Cindy Kwan at ckwan@mothercraft.org .
1. Since the Caring for Canada’s Children training, have you found the information useful in your professional work?
2. Would you be interested in a more thorough updated training manual focused on newcomer families: issues for families with infants and young children under six years of age?
3. Please share a quick comment with us about the Caring for Canada’s Children training and its use in your professional work.
Responses are due by Friday, August 24, 2012