VCH parenting website

The new VCH parenting website, parenting.vch.ca, is now live. The new website is a one stop shop for new parents and caregivers. From pregnancy to preschool - Parenting.vch.ca has all the vital information new parents and caregivers need to keep their new babies healthy.
VCH Public Health has created the site to provide access to health education materials to promote healthy child development. The site is intended for families in the prenatal period, and who have  infants and children up to five years old. Community partners in early childhood care and learning and other health care providers will also find the new site useful.
 
Going green
Typically Public Health nurses provide a very large and cumbersome printed “New Baby Package” of material to new parents and caregivers. But our clients have been increasingly asking us for paperless, mobile, and web based information. This new website will reduce the number of packages we will distribute, though the hard copy material will still be available upon request through Public Health nurses.
Please note that the Child Health Passports will continue to be distributed hard-copy to each child.
 
Comprehensive range of topics
Topics are wide-ranging and include:
·         Prenatal
·         New mother and baby care
·         Breastfeeding
·         Childhood Immunization
·         Childhood Injury Prevention
·         Childhood Communicable diseases
·         Perinatal depression
·         Speech and language development
·         Oral Health care
·         Nutrition
 
The site also has easy access to our standard referral forms to VCH programs.

Material in 7 languages
Inclusion of access to resources already developed in the languages most common in VCH including
  • Chinese
  • Punjabi
  • Korean
  • Farsi
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese
 We encourage physicians with new parents and caregivers as clients to point them to parenting.vch.ca.

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This program was last updated on: 07 Feb 2018.