Context

Why have an Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program?

We know that a child’s early years, before the age of 6, are when they do their most important learning. By the time they enter school, most of their basic learning skills will already be in place.

Children’s greatest learning happens in the context of important relationships.

Just as healthy food is essential to a young child’s growing body, being comforted, played with, held and encouraged is equally important to a young child’s growing mind.

How young children are cared for in the early years will have a lasting impact on the kind of adults they become.

Patterns that are established with the birth of a child set the stage for long-term family structure and communication.

Meaningful relationships require safe and sound attachments. These are critical to the development of coping skills, competence and trust in the world.

The Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children Community Workers

The AHBHC community workers are a valuable asset to families and communities. They are aware of how children grow and develop; they know the resources available in the community, and they know how to connect families to those resources or services.

Program History
Statistics: Why the Aboriginal Health Babies Health Children Program is needed?
Program Success
Client Change Indicators