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Activities We Provide
Meeting the needs of pregnant and parenting teens attending Edmonton Catholic Schools

Group activities are offered at 5 school sites from end of September to beginning of June. Activities students can choose from include:

Our Lady of Grace Program

Finances:

  • Budgeting
  • Child Welfare
  • Day Care Subsidy
  • Family Maintenance
  • RESP's, Investing and saving
  • Student finance

Information for parents:

  • Car seat safety
  • Car seat loaner program
  • Child Abuse
  • Finding quality childcare
  • Home safety and child proofing
  • Negotiating with grandparents
  • Problems and solutions with ETS
  • Single parenting
  • Spoiling your child
  • Time management
  • Traditional Aboriginal Parenting

Pregnancy:

  • Adoption
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
  • Fetal Development
  • Healthy pregnancy
  • Labor and delivery
  • Labor support program at Terra Association
  • Prenatal Nutrition

Self:

  • Aboriginal cultural issues
  • Abuse
  • Anger
  • Baptism
  • Body Image
  • Domestic Violence
  • Exercise
  • Moms with Mentors program at Terra Assoc. Relationships
  • Relaxation
  • Self defense
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Safer Sex and alternatives to intercourse
  • Suicide prevention
  • Weight loss
  • Spirituality

Knowledge of Community:

  • Books for Babies
  • Library Tours
  • Low cost family fun
  • Nobody's Perfect Parenting
  • Other community services
  • Participate in Habitat for Humanity house build
  • Rhymes that Bind
  • River Valley Walks
  • Swimming/working out at the YMCA
  • Tour the citizen action centre
  • Trip to the Zoo, Muttart, or Fort Edmonton Park
  • Visit Seniors Lodge
  • Volunteer to wrap gifts at Santa's Anonymous

Community Health:

  • Dental Care
  • Hospital/health unit tours
  • Immunizations
  • Quit smoking

Newborns:

  • Baby/child massage
  • Breastfeeding
  • Infant care
  • Parent child bonding
  • Postpartum care
  • Postpartum depression
  • Shaken baby syndrome
  • Why babies cry

Food and nutrition:

  • Cooking take home meals
  • Healthy Low cost meal planning
  • Infant and toddler nutrition
  • Making baby food

Crafts and fun activities :

  • Child Hand and foot prints (ink and plaster)
  • Craft activities for children
  • Toy making
  • Sewing children's clothing, quilts, receiving blankets
  • Memory albums
  • Messy play
  • Baby growth charts
  • Book making

Child Development:

  • Age appropriate play
  • Age appropriate toys and Toys 'R' Us tour Child development screening (Denver ll)
  • Child brain development
  • Developmental Milestones
  • Discipline and Behavior
  • How children learn to talk
  • Magic 1-2-3 parenting program
  • Nobody's Perfect Parenting
  • Toddler play activities
  • Toilet training

Games:

  • Scruples
  • The game of life

Education:

  • Career Planning
  • First Aid Certification
  • Peers Educating Peers
  • Post secondary schools tours
  • Resume writing and job search
  • School issues
  • Special projects for credit
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