Parenting
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Chatham-Kent is a safe and nurturing community with low crime rates and friendly caring citizens. Our community is a good place in which to raise your children.
Becoming a parent and raising children in a new country can be difficult; we are here to help you. |
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Chatham-Kent's Public Health Unit offers resources and links to community information on pregnancy and infant care. They also have tools for parents with children between the ages of 0-6 years.
If you have a newborn, register your baby online by using Ontario's newborn registration service. Or, you can register you baby at one of our local Service Ontario Centre.
Settlement.Org has information, links and resources, on parenting in Canada. It even includes a section for parents with teenagers.
Remeber to also teach your children about home safety. The CK Fire. The CK Fire Department offers resources to teach children about fire safety.
The Parents Matter website has multilingual resource sheets on topics such as building active lifestyle habits.
We have provided you with the following list of resources to help you parent:
• Building Healthy Babies Program
• Bullying or harassment at school
• Understand how to transport your young children in Canada
• The welcomehere.ca website has excellent resource to help you educate your children on diversity
• Health Canada has health related resources for parents
• Canada Benefits has information on many government programs and benefits for parents
• Chatham-Kent Safety Village
• Healthy Ontario - Children
• Ministry of Education- resources for parents
• Caring for Kids
• New Parent Resource Guide - for parents in Southwest Ontario
• Government of Ontario - Children Section - internet safety and protection
• Government of Ontario has multilingual resources to assist you with your child's homework
• Ontario Immigration
• International Children's Digital Library - access to books in your native language
Do not forget to visit the useful links to the right of this page.