PROVINCE SUPPORTS STRONGER RESOURCES FOR B.C. FAMILIES
VANCOUVER – A $750,000 grant to the BC Association of Family Resource Programs will improve services for vulnerable families around the province, Children and Family Development Minister Tom Christensen and Minister of State for Child Care Linda Reid announced.
NEW PROGRAM PROMOTES HEALTH, READING FOR PRESCHOOLERS
VANCOUVER – The Province will provide $2.7 million under its ActNow BC strategy for a new program to increase healthy living and literacy skills in preschool children.
VANCOUVER – B.C. is celebrating International Day of the Child by welcoming more than 1,000 delegates from 40 countries to WorldForum 2006, an international conference on child welfare, underway in Vancouver, Children and Family Development Minister Tom Christensen announced today.
PORT ALBERNI – Three facilities creating more than 50 new child care spaces for Port Alberni families will open their doors by early 2007, Minister of State for Child Care Linda Reid announced while visiting the Alberni Valley.
NEW SOCIAL WORKERS READY TO ASSIST B.C.’S CHILDREN
VICTORIA – The Ministry of Children and Family Development has completed the first phase of its social worker recruitment campaign, resulting in 101 additional front-line child protection workers, Minister Tom Christensen announced.
Ministry Service Plan Summary Brochure
