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About Healthy Child Manitoba
Child-Centred Public Policy through Community Development
About Healthy Child Manitoba
Child Centred Public Policy
HCM Vision, Mission, and Goals
HCM Guiding Principles
HCM Annual Report
Overview of HCM Programs and Services
About Healthy Child Manitoba
To help children reach their potential, Healthy Child Manitoba
works with families to support their children within strong communities.
Led by the Healthy Child Committee
of Cabinet, Healthy Child Manitoba bridges departments and governments
and, together with the community, works to improve the well-being
of Manitoba's children and youth. HCM focuses on child-centred
public policy through the integration of financial and community-based
family supports.
HCM researches best practices and models and adapts these to Manitoba's
unique situation. It strengthens provincial policies and programs
for healthy child and adolescent development, from the prenatal
period to adulthood. HCM then evaluates programs and services to
find the most effective ways to achieve the best possible outcomes
for Manitoba children, families, and communities.
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HCM Child-Centred Public Policy
Child-centred public policy places the best interests of children
and youth first. Through a combination of financial and community-based
family supports, Healthy Child Manitoba works to help families and
communities raise children who are healthy, safe and secure, successful
at learning, and socially engaged and responsible. Our continuum
of supports extends through adolescence, with a focus on the most
critical stage of early childhood development, from the prenatal
period to the preschool years.
A New Way of Working Together
Healthy Child Manitoba represents a new way of working together
across government departments and with the community to develop
policies, programs and services that promote the best possible outcomes
for Manitoba's children. Because no single department or area
can meet the holistic needs of children and youth as they grow,
our success depends on these partnerships.
What works?
New research indicates that we can best achieve our goals through:
- Multiyear, early intervention for families: prenatal to 6 years,
including home visiting and nutrition programs.
- High quality child care and preschool experiences.
- A holistic, accessible, integrated system, involving partnerships
with parents, children and youth, and communities.
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HCM Vision
The best possible outcomes for all of Manitoba's children.
HCM Mission
Healthy Child Manitoba works across departments and sectors to
facilitate a community development approach for the well
being of Manitoba's children, families and communities. The
priority focus is on the prenatal period through the preschool years.
HCM Goals
To their fullest potential, Manitoba's children will be:
- physically and emotionally healthy
- safe and secure
- successful at learning
- socially engaged and responsible
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HCM Guiding Principles
Community-based
- Communities are partners with government in the design, governance
and delivery of supports for children and families.
- Partnerships and collaboration for service delivery will build
on existing community networks and foster new networks.
- The most effective approach for building self-determination
and healthy communities is developing services sensitive to the
local capacities and needs of children.
Inclusive
- Programs and services will invite and welcome the participation
of children and their families, sensitive to their traditions,
culture, language and abilities.
Comprehensive
- A spectrum of services, across sectors, is available to support
families and the healthy development of their children.
Integrated
- Program planning and service delivery are coordinated across
sectors to provide the best possible integration of supports for
the specific needs of each child and family.
- Local community agency networks will be utilized for an integrated
approach to service delivery.
- To the degree possible, programs should be harmonized with Federal,
Aboriginal and Municipal initiatives.
Accessible
- Services and programs are available and accessible to families
and their children across Manitoba.
Quality assurance
- Services will be based on local, national and international
best practices.
- Government will develop and maintain standards for service excellence.
- Programs will have clearly articulated and measurable outcomes,
with ongoing evaluations to learn what's working and how to improve.
Public accountability
- Governments and communities share responsibility for ensuring
that programs achieve their outcomes and are delivered in a cost-effective
manner.
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HCM Annual Report
For more information about Healthy Child Manitoba, you can download
our Annual Report.
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Overview of HCM Programs
and Services
For more information about Healthy Child Manitoba's programs and
services, you can download Healthy Child
Manitoba: Programs and Services.
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Healthy Child Manitoba Office
219 - 114 Garry Street
Winnipeg, MB R3C 4V6
Phone: (204) 945-2266
Toll Free: 1-888-848-0140
Email: healthychild@gov.mb.ca
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