Resources

Best Start resources for newcomers

Ontario Health Nexus has produced two excellent resources:

Giving Birth in a New Land” - Guides for Women and their Families (34 pages), and
Guide for Service Providers (58 pages), http://www.beststart.org/resources/rep_health/newcomer/newcomer_guide_english.pdf

These resources are available in English, French, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu,

A new resource was produced in 2010:

A Healthy Start for Baby and Me (86 pages) - an excellent, plain language, ethnically inclusive resource, with illustrations and explanations about prenatal care, healthy eating, ways to stay healthy, the three trimesters of pregnancy, labour and birth, after the baby is born, and info about babies.
http://www.beststart.org/resources/rep_health/pdf/low_lit_book_fnl_LR.pdf

A number of Nexus materials available in several languages, at:

http://www.beststart.org/resources/other_languages/index.html

Although some of the information is Ontario-specific, most is generic in nature.

http://www.beststart.org/

Downtown Parents - family literacy

Quarterly newsletter from Communities 4 Families addressing one of the four pillars. This issue deals with Family Literacy

Downtown Parents 1.pdf

Downtown Parents - Getting Ready for School

Fall 2011 newsletter - Getting Ready for School

Getting Ready for School.pdf

Downtown Parents - Holiday 2011

Newsletter for downtown parents. This issue focuses on winter and the holidays.

Celebrating the Holidays.pdf

Downtown Parents - summer 2011

Quarterly newsletter from Communities 4 Families addressing one of the four pillars. This issue deals with Healthy Lifestyles - summer programming, especially in Daniel McIntyre/ St. Matthews/ Spence neighbourhoods.

Summer-1.pdf