About Us

About the SVPCC

What is a Parent Child Coalition?

Parent Child Coalitions bring together parents, early childhood educators, educators, health care professionals and other community organizations to plan and work collaboratively to support the healthy development of children aged 0-6 years.

Research shows that experience-based brain development in the early years affects learning, behaviour and health throughout the life course (The Early Years Study, 1999).

All programs that have received assistance from the Coalition strengthen Parents’ knowledge in one or more of these domains:

  1. Positive Parenting
  2. Nutrition & Physical Health
  3. Learning & Literacy
  4. Community Capacity Building

SVPCC Grants

SVPCC provides grants with priority given to programs that include BOTH parents and children (aged 0-6) and address at least one of the following HCM pillars: Positive Parenting; Nutrition and Physical Health; Learning and Literacy.  We encourage capacity building to be a component of all programming that our grants support.

These grants are intended to assist groups to run family and parenting programs.  Programs for St. Vital parents and their children (aged 0-6), or parenting programs for parents with children ages 0-6, are eligible.

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Other programs are also welcomed and considered

Some of the Programs We Fund