Early Childhood Team

Our goal is to enhance early childhood well-being so children have healthy relationships and opportunities to develop and thrive to their potential. Early childhood is the ages 0-6. Early childhood well-being refers to the best possible physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual development. Children’s well-being depends on safe, nurturing environments with support, love, and consistent care. Children need opportunities to explore, grow, and thrive. Early childhood well-being is a basic human right. Children of all races, cultures, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, gender-identities, and family composition have this human right.

Vision

Working collaboratively to enhance early childhood well-being so children have healthy relationships and opportunities to develop and thrive to their full potential.

Vision and Goals of the ECT

What is the Goal of the Early Childhood Team?

The Early Childhood Team works to enhance early childhood well-being, so children have healthy relationships and opportunities to develop and thrive to their potential.

Who is on the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute’s Early Childhood Team?

The team is made up of staff from six program areas with expertise in:

child abuse prevention
infant and child development
early childhood education
early childhood mental health
early childhood stress and trauma
resiliency
self regulation
motivational interviewing
positive parenting
working with children with special needs
collaboration, partnership development, and networking
community capacity building
health promotion
knowledge translation, exchange, and dissemination
plain language content development
primary prevention
research and evaluation
resource development
strength-based practices
training and facilitation

Do you want more information about the program areas that staff on the Early Childhood Team represent? Click on the Program name below for information about the program.

What Programs are Involved with the Early Childhood Team?

Early Childhood Mental Health Program

Perinatal and Infant Health Program

FASD Prevention Program

Child Injury Prevention Program

Community Action Program for Children (CAPC)

Nobody’s Perfect Parenting Program:

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Work collaboratively, to enhance early childhood well-being so children have healthy relationships and opportunities to develop and thrive to their full potentials.

What is Early Childhood Well-Being?

The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute defines early childhood well-being as the best possible physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual development of children between 0-6 years of age.

Early childhood well-being depends on safe, nurturing environments where children are supported, loved, and receive consistent care. There are six critical areas where children need support to explore, grow, and thrive to the best of their abilities. These areas include physical, spiritual, emotional, environmental, social, and mental development.

What Shapes Early Childhood Well-Being?

Children’s well-being is shaped by anyone who provides care for the child. It is also shaped by the interactions of both the child and caregiver with communities, organizations, and systems.

The diagram shows how children’s wellness can be impacted by the world around them.

What does the Early Childhood Team do?

Over the next five years (2020-2025), the Early Childhood Team will focus on the following goals:

Increase, across sectors, professionals’ capacity to share knowledge and adopt strategies that reflect the importance of early years.
Increase, across sectors, professionals’ knowledge of the impact of adverse conditions in early childhood and strategies that can help to prevent and mitigate these impacts.
Strengthen community capacity to support and promote healthy communities where children and families can thrive.
Work in collaboration with First Nation and Métis organizations to ensure that messaging and joint projects focused on early childhood well-being are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, reflective of the impact of colonization and systemic discrimination, and continue to address the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Work in collaboration with community-based organizations, including those with a refugee and immigrant focus, to ensure that the Early Childhood Team and projects are reflective of Saskatchewan’s racial and cultural diversity; respectful of varying world views on child development, rearing, and caregiving; and sensitive to the impact of systemic and personal racism on early childhood well-being.
Initiate a collaborative, coordinated approach to recommend achievable system and policy changes that promote positive outcomes for Saskatchewan children and families.
Establish partnerships with research organizations to increase the depth of knowledge of early childhood well-being in Saskatchewan.

How can Saskatchewan Organizations, Services, and Communities Benefit from the Early Childhood Team?

The Early Childhood Team can provide:

information and resources about early childhood well-being
specialized and customized workshops and trainings
social media content for use by other organizations
connections to communities and programs who are working in this area
information about best practices in supporting early childhood well-being
opportunities to collaborate and partner on projects

Contact us at info@skprevention.ca.

Healthy Children Webinar Series

Please click on the title of each webinar for more information and to register.

Date & Time	Title	Presenter(s)
March 14, 2023 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Healthy Prenatal Development and Its Impact on the Early Years	Soumya Mishra, Rashmi Tandukar Bhaukaji

Early Childhood Team

Our goal is to enhance early childhood well-being so children have healthy relationships and opportunities to develop and thrive to their potential. Early childhood is the ages 0-6. Early childhood well-being refers to the best possible physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual development. Children’s well-being depends on safe, nurturing environments with support, love, and consistent care. Children need opportunities to explore, grow, and thrive. Early childhood well-being is a basic human right. Children of all races, cultures, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, gender-identities, and family composition have this human right.

Vision

Working collaboratively to enhance early childhood well-being so children have healthy relationships and opportunities to develop and thrive to their full potential.

Vision and Goals of the ECT

What is the Goal of the Early Childhood Team?

The Early Childhood Team works to enhance early childhood well-being, so children have healthy relationships and opportunities to develop and thrive to their potential.

Who is on the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute’s Early Childhood Team?

The team is made up of staff from six program areas with expertise in:

child abuse prevention
infant and child development
early childhood education
early childhood mental health
early childhood stress and trauma
resiliency
self regulation
motivational interviewing
positive parenting
working with children with special needs
collaboration, partnership development, and networking
community capacity building
health promotion
knowledge translation, exchange, and dissemination
plain language content development
primary prevention
research and evaluation
resource development
strength-based practices
training and facilitation

Do you want more information about the program areas that staff on the Early Childhood Team represent? Click on the Program name below for information about the program.

What Programs are Involved with the Early Childhood Team?

Early Childhood Mental Health

Early Childhood Mental Health:

Increase understanding about the importance of early childhood mental health, and support strategies that support and enhance attachment, resiliency, behavioural and emotional regulation, and brain development in children age 0-6.

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Perinatal and Infant Health Program

FASD Prevention Program

Child Injury Prevention Program

Community Action Program for Children (CAPC)

Nobody’s Perfect Parenting Program

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What is Early Childhood Well-Being?

The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute defines early childhood well-being as the best possible physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual development of children between 0-6 years of age.

Early childhood well-being depends on safe, nurturing environments where children are supported, loved, and receive consistent care. There are six critical areas where children need support to explore, grow, and thrive to the best of their abilities. These areas include physical, spiritual, emotional, environmental, social, and mental development.

What Shapes Early Childhood Well-Being?

Children’s well-being is shaped by anyone who provides care for the child. It is also shaped by the interactions of both the child and caregiver with communities, organizations, and systems.

The diagram shows how children’s wellness can be impacted by the world around them.

What does the Early Childhood Team do?

Over the next five years (2020-2025), the Early Childhood Team will focus on the following goals:

Increase, across sectors, professionals’ capacity to share knowledge and adopt strategies that reflect the importance of early years.
Increase, across sectors, professionals’ knowledge of the impact of adverse conditions in early childhood and strategies that can help to prevent and mitigate these impacts.
Strengthen community capacity to support and promote healthy communities where children and families can thrive.
Work in collaboration with First Nation and Métis organizations to ensure that messaging and joint projects focused on early childhood well-being are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, reflective of the impact of colonization and systemic discrimination, and continue to address the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Work in collaboration with community-based organizations, including those with a refugee and immigrant focus, to ensure that the Early Childhood Team and projects are reflective of Saskatchewan’s racial and cultural diversity; respectful of varying world views on child development, rearing, and caregiving; and sensitive to the impact of systemic and personal racism on early childhood well-being.
Initiate a collaborative, coordinated approach to recommend achievable system and policy changes that promote positive outcomes for Saskatchewan children and families.
Establish partnerships with research organizations to increase the depth of knowledge of early childhood well-being in Saskatchewan.

How can Saskatchewan Organizations, Services, and Communities Benefit from the Early Childhood Team?

The Early Childhood Team can provide:

information and resources about early childhood well-being
specialized and customized workshops and trainings
social media content for use by other organizations
connections to communities and programs who are working in this area
information about best practices in supporting early childhood well-being
opportunities to collaborate and partner on projects

Contact us at info@skprevention.ca.

Healthy Children Webinar Series

Please click on the title of each webinar for more information and to register.

Date & Time	Title	Presenter(s)
March 14, 2023 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Healthy Prenatal Development and Its Impact on the Early Years	Ana Andrade, Soumya Mishra, Rashmi Tandukar Bhaukaji