Provides a variety of in-home health care services
Home Support

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Companion Aide
• Dementia Care
• Homemaking
• Palliative Care
• Personal Care

Respite

• Respite Care

Nursing

• Acute care post hospitalization
• Chronic disease management
• Foot care
• Intravenous Care
• Mental Health
• Palliative Care
• Pediatric
• School Health
• Wound Care

Operates as a program under the Healing and Wellness Branch

Delivers a parenting support program and promotes child development

• Offers individual prenatal classes on an as needed basis
  
• Provides information on the stages of pregnancy
  
• Offers parents handbook of pregnancy and baby care (Baby's Best Chance)
  

Program participants are provided with:

• Advocacy and support
  
• Emergency supplies for child's basic needs (diapers, formula, baby food and milk)
  
• Follow up via telephone within 48 hours of discharge from hospital
  
• Home visits pre-birth to prepare family for new arrival
  
• Home visits post birth to offer support to new mothers
  
• Home visits during child's early years to offer development guidance
  
• Referrals to other programs and services

Also offers:

• Educational and promotional workshops and presentations to schools, community groups and parents
  
• Hosts cultural events

Provides community-based, holistic and culturally relevant programs and services aimed at prenatal and postnatal Indigenous mothers, their infants and families

Offers the following services:

• Baby and Me Yoga
  
• Baby drop-in
  
• Breastfeeding support
  
• Child birth classes
  
• Craft classes
  
• Cultural teachings
  
• Doula coaching
  
• Emergency food and supplies such as breast pads, baby formula and diapers
  
• Home/hospital visits
  
• Pregnancy tests
  
• Prenatal nutrition
  
• Prenatal yoga
  
• Referrals to elders
  
• Soups On
  
• Lactation consulting
  
• Medical transportation to and from appointments
  
• Various fitness classes

Delivers a parenting support program and promotes child development

• Offers group and individual prenatal classes on an as needed basis
  
• Provides information on the stages of pregnancy
  
• Offers parents handbook of pregnancy and baby care (Baby's Best Chance)

Program participants are provided with:

• Free milk coupons
  
• Follow up via telephone within 48 hours of discharge from hospital
  
• Home visits pre birth to prepare family for new arrival
  
• Home visits post birth to offer support to new mothers
  
• Home visits during child's early years to offer development guidance
  
• Referrals to other programs and services

• Promotes the health and nutrition of pregnant women and new mothers

Provides a range of services including:

• Baby weigh-ins
  
• Breast feeding education and support
  
• Dietary assessments
  
• Food preparation training
  
• Food vouchers and vitamin supplements to participants
  
• Nutritional counselling for mothers and new baby
  
• Prenatal classes
  
• Referrals to other service providers
  
• Transportation to attend the program

Offers a variety of prenatal education sessions including:

• Evening prenatal sessions
  
• Young Parents Connection (Sault Ste Marie only)
  
• Gift of Motherhood Online Learning

Delivers a parenting support program and promotes child development

• Offers group and individual prenatal classes on an as needed basis
  
• Provides information on the stages of pregnancy
  
• Offers parents handbook of pregnancy and baby care (Baby's Best Chance)

Program participants are provided with:

• Free milk coupons (call for details)
  
• Follow up via telephone within 48 hours of discharge from hospital
  
• Home visits pre birth to prepare family for new arrival
  
• Home visits post birth to offer support to new mothers
  
• Home visits during child's early years to offer development guidance
  
• Referrals to other programs and services

• Provides an array of programs directed at infants, children, youth, parents, adults, caregivers
  
• Assists individuals in their reproductive years who are making choices about future family life
  
• Prevents, identifies, assesses, and treats hearing loss to individuals of all ages, on a first come first served basis

Programs and Services:

• Community Alcohol and Drug Assessment
  
• Community Mental Health
  
• Dental Services
  
• Healthy Babies, Healthy Children
  
• Parent Child Services

Child Health

• Provides information, support and workshops for parents, childcare, health and social service providers
  
• Promotes and supports breastfeeding
  
• Supports parenting programs and provision of information

Infant Hearing Program

• Provides newborn babies a hearing screening prior to hospital discharge or at a community location if they are unable to access the screening in the hospital

Preschool Speech Language Services

• Assessment
  
• Intervention and/or therapy
  
• Monitoring
  
• Consultation
  
• Hanen Parent Programs
  
• Group education, in services, and information distribution

Reproductive Health Program
Provides information on the following topics:

• Folic acid
  
• Nutrition and optimal weight gain in pregnancy
  
• Smoking cessation
  
• Physical activity
  
• Avoidance of alcohol and substance use
  
• Benefits of support systems
  
• Stress reduction
  
• Prenatal classes

• Offers prenatal, labour and delivery, and post natal care to women
  
• Services are offered through obstetricians, midwives and nurses
  
• Provides a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
  
• Offers a comprehensive "Mother and Infant Care Booklet" on website
  
• Provides Pediatric Care to children from 1 month to 18 years

Prenatal Maternity Unit Tour

• Offers an opportunity to ask questions, gather information, and plan for the labour and delivery of child

Delivers a parenting support program and promotes healthy child development

• Provides group information and educational sessions on topics about healthy pregnancy, birth and taking care of baby at home
  
• Provides information on the stages of pregnancy
  
• Offers parents handbook of pregnancy and baby care (Baby's Best Chance)

Program participants are provided with:

• Follow up via telephone within 48 hours of discharge from hospital
  
• Home visits pre birth to prepare family for new arrival
  
• Home visits post birth to offer support to new mothers
  
• Home visits during child's early years to offer development guidance
  
• Referrals to other programs and services

• Promotes the health and nutrition of pregnant women and new mothers

Provides a range of services including:

• Baby weigh-ins
  
• Breast feeding education and support
  
• Dietary assessments
  
• Food preparation training
  
• Food vouchers and vitamin supplements to participants
  
• Nutritional counselling for mothers and new baby
  
• Prenatal classes
  
• Referrals to other service providers
  
• Transportation to attend the program