What exactly is your Healthy Beginnings program?

Healthy Beginnings is a program designed to increase the health of mothers and their newborn babies. Program participants receive supports such as grocery store vouchers, TTC tickets, food hampers, healthy lunches, interpretation and childcare. There are also a number of resources available, such as books and videos, as well as workshops, food demos and a breastfeeding support circle.
The program provides a welcoming environment for women and their children and encourages women to meet one another and form new friendships. The program runs weekly and functions as a drop in, allowing women to choose when they want to come and for how long.

Our Healthy Beginnings team is multidisciplinary, including nurses, dieticians, social workers and early year’s staff. This diversity makes it easier to address the various issues women face and helps us to deal effectively with some of the higher risk situations, making sure supports are in place for medical attention, housing, counselling, children’s aid and immigration.