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Growing Up Healthy Downtown (GUHD)
Photo's from Children's Carnival organized by GUHD in August 2010.
About GUHD
GUHD is a partnership of eight multi-service community agencies. We deliver programs and services that focus on improving the health and well-being of young children as well as offering support and new skills to their parents or caregivers.
GUHD's goals and objectives
- To encourage the social development of children and strengthen relationships between children and their parents/caregivers.
- To offer parents and caregivers the opportunity to improve their parenting skills, develop their networks of support and increase their ability to access community resources.
- To offer parents and caregivers respite/relief.
- To increase collaborations within the GUHD partnership as well as within GUHD communities through coalition building and service system change.
- To improve the capacity of program participants to engage in their community and contribute to their community's development.
- To improve GUHD's ability to meet the needs of its communities through participants' consultation and needs assessments.
If you're looking for a place to drop in with your kids for a couple of hours, to make some new connections or get involved in community events and learn new things, GUHD has something for you. Call Sophia Ali, GUHD Co-ordinator, at 416-595-9230 ext. 328 for more information.
GUHD receives funding from the Public
Health Agency of Canada's Community Action Program for Children.
