Drop-in and Support Programs

Our drop-in and support programs often take place in the community to make it easier for you to find a program that suits you and your family’s needs.

Mutual Aid Parenting Program (MAPP)

This program provides support for parents of children of all ages. MAPP is a self-help group where you can meet parents with a shared concern, worry or experience and come together to get help, give help and learn to help each other and yourself.

This group is offered in Glencoe. For more information and to find a MAPP group in your community, please contact 519-434-6848 ext. 408.

Community Action for Prenatal and Child Health Program (CAPCHP)

The Community Action for Prenatal and Child Health Program (CAPCHP) promotes the healthy development of young children from birth to age 6 who face challenges such as poverty or isolation that put their health at risk. CAPCHP activities are provided in partnership with community agencies, and focus on improving parenting skills and parent-child relationships, decreasing isolation, and increasing children’s self-esteem. CAPCHP programs actively involve the people they serve in planning, managing, developing, delivering, and evaluating their programs. Activities may include nutritional support and collective kitchens, parenting classes and drop-in groups, and child health and development activities. 

Little Bites

Little Bites helps parents teach their young children (3-6 years of age) through hands on programming about health eating, food exploration, balanced nutrition, and safe food handling in a way that acknowledges diverse cultural food traditions and economic barriers to accessing fresh nutritious food.

The program also incorporates information regarding understanding food labels and making healthy choices based on this information.

Positive Parenting

This program offers parents of children age 0-6 years sessions created to enhance their understanding of positive parenting practices, child development, and attachment. The facilitator provides information, supports discussion and activities based on the needs of the participants in each group. The available programming can include sessions on topics such as infant massage, injury prevention, sleep health, and family mental health supports. These sessions will provide a place for parental discussion and peer support guided by the facilitator to help meet the participants where they are at she they face the joys and challenges of parenting.

Families and Infants Together (FIT)

Families and Infants Together (FIT) provides enhanced service coordination to families with infants (0-2 years) identified by the Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex as being at high risk of the infant being removed from parental care. The goal is for the infant to remain in their parent’s care, and ultimately, to thrive in their family environment with the support of a coordinated, seamless, collaborative system of services.