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Growing Up Healthy Downtown
Photo's from Children's Carnival organized by GUHD in July 2006.
What is GUHD?
Growing Up Healthy Downtown (GUHD) is a partnership of eight dynamic, community-based multi-service agencies working with families with young children across downtown Toronto.
Through partnerships with other organizations and service providers, GUHD has something for everyone: from parenting support programs such as Nobody’s Perfect and the Queer Moms Support Group to the Chinese or Vietnamese Family Support Groups and the Portuguese Fathers Group, to name only a few.
GUHD's goals and objectives
- 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 encourage the social development of children and strengthen relationships between children and their parents/caregivers.
- 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.
We are committed to the delivery of 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.
If you're looking for something specific, a place to drop into with your kids for a couple of hours or a place to make some new connections, 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.
