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This $50,000 award honours the remarkable and enduring contributions made by Lynda Silvester in her role as co-founder of Strong Start and in her roles as an educator and community leader. The award is used to support collaborative groups in developing/strengthening their capacity and reaching the next level of collaboration. A range of needs can be supported: events, technology, space, consulting, etc. The group’s work must focus on the wellbeing of children from birth to age 12 and their families.
A Collaborative Approach to Positive Parenting in Waterloo Region
$50,000
By engaging in a strategic planning process, the Positive Parenting Community Committee will strengthen its capacity to promote a system-wide, collaborative approach to positive parenting, increase awareness of the value of positive parenting, and enable service providers to support and educate parents and caring adults in our region.
$50,000
The Early Literacy Alliance of Waterloo Region (ELAWR) will strengthen its collaborative and our community by engaging in strategic planning, networking and advocacy. They will spark system-wide inclusion of early literacy as key to the healthy growth of children, families and neighbourhoods.
Creating an Early Years System Plan for Waterloo Region
$25,000
The Children’s Planning Table is an integrated planning table for children’s services from prenatal to 12 years of age which has come together to develop an Early Years System Plan. The goal of the planning table is to work toward a community that supports the developmental health of children through a system of coordinated and effective services.
Promoting Strength-Based Practice in Waterloo Region
$25,000
This project will bring together child-serving organizations so they can explore and exchange knowledge of strength-based approaches and mentor each other to create or further develop related programs and services in Waterloo Region.
