What We Do

The Calgary Children’s Initiative generates positive change for children and their families by bringing together key players from our community who may not have previously engaged due to agency or professional boundaries.

We provide a neutral forum for our partners to focus their considerable expertise and unique perspectives towards one common goal of ensuring the best possible chances for all children in Calgary.

Our collaborative make-up and approach has made it possible to properly identify and address the critical issues impacting children through meaningful research, thorough analysis, well designed action plans and systematic evaluation.

We continue to work with the whole community to create an environment where every child can thrive and ultimately succeed. We believe the success of our children is essential to the success of our city.

At A Glance...

Strategies & Task Forces

Corporate Child Care
A resource group for businesses attempting to establish on-site child care centres to meet the needs of their employees

Critical Hours
A collaborative effort to ensure Calgary children and youth have more opportunities to participate in safe, constructive social, recreational and creative activities during out-of-school hours

Faith Strategy
Exploring the role that faith communities and churches can play to support activities for children, youth and families in their neighbourhoods.

Parenting
Building the capacity across parenting programs to provide effective support to parents with children of all ages

Social Imaging
Challenging the stereotypes of youth in media by encouraging more youth engagement and more positive coverage of youth achievements

Child Care Systems Implementation
A community partnership working to support the implementation and establishment of new child care spaces

Calgary Learning Village Collaborative
A collaborative neighbourhood model where education, health, social, recreational and cultural services are coordinated through satellites to enhance student, family and community learning, health and connectedness.

Council of Champions Public Policy Priorities

After School Framework for Calgary
Support for a comprehensive city-wide system of high quality and accessible after school opportunities

Funding for Community Access to Schools
Working with the Province of Alberta to develop a policy framework and funding support for enhancing community use of schools (Request $1.5m)

Integrated School Design
Policy and systems level advocacy to ensure schools are designed and/or able to provide integrated on site support for children and families

Academic/Community Exchange
A network of community service providers and academic researchers exchanging and translating knowledge into practice change

An Early Child Development Framework for Alberta’s Children and Families
A provincial collaboration to develop a legislative and policy framework that better reflects the evidence on the critical importance of early child development

Research & Practice Change

Status Report
A snapshot of the issues that are impacting children and youth and the organizations that serve them, identifying opportunities for future action

Angus Reid
Surveys will be used to consult with a representative sample of parents, children and youth in Calgary to assess their interests, goals and aspirations

Community Perinatal Care Study
A longitudinal research partnership to identify best practices and policies when screening for developmental delays in children

Youth Engagement Action Research
A resource tool has been developed and is now being tested as a strategy to encourage greater youth engagement in their communities.

Albertan Benchmark Study
A research project with the Alberta Centre for Research on Children, Families and Communities to identify what parents know about developmental milestones in early child development

Triple P Schools
A research and policy initiative intended to influence the future development of school design in Alberta


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