From February 16 – March 3, the Inspiring Healthy Futures (#WeCANforKids) initiative will be holding eight focused planning sessions (called “Strategy Hives”) around the key themes. In each, we will be developing an agenda for what we can do right now as well as priorities for long term planning. Each Hive will build on the previous ones, leaving us with a robust, multi-faceted plan we can begin right away.

Each session will be a dynamic, interactive experience, focusing both on mobilizing communities to change policy and transform knowledge into action to support kids and youth through this crisis, and creating the new research, collaborations and structures that will set them up for a thriving future.

Strategy Hive #2: Inspiring Healthy Futures: Love, safety and healthy childhood

We know that kids thrive when they are in an environment of love and acceptance, and where they feel safe and supported. Caring relationships and effective parenting are essential factors, but many parents across Canada face social, economic and health related challenges that make it very difficult to create environments that are needed for kids to thrive.

Join us for this Strategy Hive where we will explore what we have learned about what’s most important to support and sustain healthy parenting and families. We will look to set shared priorities for how we support parents and families to recover from the impact of COVID-19, and the policies, knowledge / research, and programs and that will make the biggest difference.

*The session will be conducted in English. Captioning will be available.