sydneybell
3 January 2025
During December 2024, we gathered valuable insights into the priority learning needs for CAPC/CPNP project staff through four engaging opportunities: the NorthEast Zone Meeting, Monthly Check-In Zoom Chat, Network Gathering, and contributions on WebConnects.
The key themes centered on fostering inclusivity, with a focus on integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), supporting maternal and early mental health, and addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
Key learning needs included:
- Cultural Sensitivity: Training to better support newcomers, address language barriers, and provide culturally appropriate care.
- Trauma-Informed Care: Enhancing staff’s supportive counselling skills.
- Public Health Strategies: Designing upstream programming and motivational approaches.
- Tailored Resources: Guidance on cultural practices, dietary needs, and screen time impacts.
- Recruitment and Engagement: Digital tools to connect with families more effectively.
These priorities highlight a shared commitment to building inclusive, responsive, and supportive programming for families.
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1. North East Zone Meeting
- Incorporating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into all activities
- Maternal mental health support and early mental health competency training for infants
- Preconception issues
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Recruitment strategies and digital engagement
- Maternal mental health support, infant and early mental health competency training, How to better support newcomers, DEI, substance use such as chronic cannabis use in pregnancy
2. Zoom Chat
- Options for cultural sensitivity training for staff working with newcomer families
- Resources for addressing language barriers in program delivery
- Information on culturally appropriate foods for different immigrant groups
- Resources or training on recognizing developmental delays in children aged 0–6 months
- Trauma-informed care and supportive counseling training for program facilitators
- Recommendation for PHAC to develop culturally-specific dietary guidelines for immigrant groups
- Interest in speakers or webinars related to cultural sensitivity and newcomer families
3. Network Gathering Highlights:
- Cultural awareness for introducing PHAC-recommended best practices to families from different cultures
- Presentations on upstream public health programming and its practical application
- Support for families with children over 6 months old (as they age out of CPNP programs)
- Strategies for developing and implementing programs that generate motivation for participation
- Culturally appropriate postpartum depression treatment and addressing language barriers
- Addressing the gap between EDI training and actual practice in organizational settings
- Techniques for staying positive and focused amid ongoing crises
4. Shared on WebConnects:
- cultural norms in pregnancy and birth – what are different cultures' practices?
- cultural food practices in pregnancy and intro to solids and how to support client’s when cultural practices differ from our recommendations
- screen time effect on baby’s brains and how to support our clients to decrease screen time for babies and young children
- social media safety for children
- trauma informed care