Educators

Resources for Educators

Building Blocks, Building Brains is a workshop focused on early brain development for early care and education professionals and parents.

Links for Educators

Invest in Kids
Invest in Kids is dedicated to helping parents become the parents they want and need to be. By translating the science of parenting and child development into engaging, easy-to-understand, relevant resources for parents and professionals, Invest in Kids aims to strengthen the parenting knowledge, skills and confidence of all those who touch the lives of our youngest children to ensure the healthy social, emotional and intellectual development of children from birth to age five.

Centre of Excellence for Early Child Development
Check out the Encyclopedia of Early Child Development, with over 35 topics related to psychosocial development of the child, from conception to age 5.

3 Cheers for the Early Years
3 Cheers for the Early Years is a Calgary Health Region program that seeks to create a community that supports, celebrates and values families with young children. It promotes the coordination and collaboration of services, training, and public information for parents and caregivers of young children throughout the Calgary Health Region.

Southern Alberta Child and Youth Health Network
SACYHN brings together parents and youth, ministries, organizations, regional authorities, and agencies to focus on optimizing the health and well being of children and youth. The Network is a mechanism to develop a shared vision and purpose, to involve families and service providers in significant ways in service planning, to identify and create opportunities for positive change, to build inter-regional, cross-sector, and clinical connections, and to pursue electronic linkages.

Talaris Research Institute
Talaris Research Institute works to improve the social, emotional and cognitive development of children from the prenatal period through age five by providing parents with tools to raise their children effectively.

Raising Children Network (The Australian Parenting Network)
The Raising Children Network is composed of three members: the Smart Population Foundation, the Parenting Research Centre, and the Centre for Community Child Health, as well as the Australian Government. This website provides valuable resources on a range of early childhood topics for parents of children of all ages.

Zero to Three
ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization who’s mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers, and their families. ZERO TO THREE advances their mission by informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.