Make Your Home and Car Smoke-free: A Guide to Protecting Your Family from Second-Hand Smoke

All children depend on the adults around them to provide safe, healthy environments to learn, grow and develop new skills. This presentation will support parents and caregivers in preparing for each stage of child development to better predict and prevent injuries. Unintentional childhood injuries are predictable and preventable, yet they persist as a leading cause of hospitalization and death for children in Canada. By recognizing and addressing common hazards in a child’s environment, parents and caregivers can keep their children safe from life-altering injuries without any bubble wrap.

• Hazards & Safety Interventions Activity
• Home Safety Tips: Additional Resources
• Home Safety Tips: Preventing Childhood Injuries Presentation Slides

The Supporting Parents Webinar Series focuses on topics to help parents and caregivers learn how to create environments that help children thrive. These webinars can be used as part of parenting groups or can be used by parents and caregivers independently. Interactive activities are used to share strategies and tips to enhance capacity to raise healthy, safe, and happy children. A recording of the webinar content and activity instructions will be available after each event.

This interactive virtual session will explore the various hats that parents and caregivers wear. Participants will reflect on how they carry out and feel about their various roles and responsibilities. This session will offer opportunities to understand why these roles are important, how responsibilities can be reframed, and why taking care of oneself is a crucial part of caring for others.

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Children’s well-being depends on safe, nurturing environments with support, love, and consistent care. There are many pieces of the puzzle that are needed to help children thrive. This webinar will highlight new and existing resources from the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute for service providers to support parents and caregivers. This will include providing information on the Supporting Parents Webinar Series and how these webinars can be used in parent programming. Interactive activities will be used to share strategies and tips to enhance capacity to raise healthy, safe, and happy children.