Creating Safer Communities

Creating Safer Communities

To reduce crime, we must support families and provide opportunities for children The things that make communities safer from crime lie beyond the criminal justice system: they lie beyond the jurisdiction of law enforcement, courts, corrections. The criminal justice...
PURPLE Program

PURPLE Program

PURPLE Program and Its Research The Period of PURPLE Crying® provides educational information about the properties of normal infant crying that are uniformly frustrating to caregivers, and appropriate action steps that caregivers need to know. Inconsolable infant...
Counting Hungry Families

Counting Hungry Families

In March 2010, 94,359 people in BC visited a foodbank — 4000 more than during the same period one year previously. Nearly a third were children. According to The HungerCount 2010 Survey, an annual study conducted by Food Banks Canada, half of the households that turn...