Services under one roof The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 29, 1996 - A3 Family Place opens doors STARTING NEXT WEEK anyone necding information about child care will only have to go to one location, The Family Place, a central Jocation for parents and care providers, opens Jute 4, It's located on Park Ave. in a white house just down the street from the aquatic centre. The Family Place has been in the works for two years, and is the result of a communily survey. A number of ser- vices will be brought under one roof. a “Right now parents have to run around to find out how they can get things,” explained Ann Peltier, coordinator for the project. ‘This will be like a central clearing house for children and families, as well as providing training and support for care givers.” oe The facility is quite unique. There are only two similar _ ones in the provitce, so it will be “under the microscope” ‘said Pellier, to see how the community likes-it. ‘Even its appearance sets. it apart froma typical govern- ment office, The facility is located in a newly renovated house, complete with a kitchen and two fireplaces. The Skeena Childcare Support Program, which kecps a registry. of childcare providers; is one program which finds anew home in the Family Place, : Coco Schau runs the program aud helps parents find reli- able child care.in a certain neighbourhood. The -progam also gives support to care providers through a toy an equipiient library and newletters. * - If you can’t afford day care, then you'll probably want to talk lo a financial assistance worker from the social ser- vices ministry. A staff member from the ministry will be at the The. Family Place: part time to help people who need a daycare subsidy. : . These subsidies are available to people defined as the working poor as well as those on social assistance. Perhaps’ you're thinking about setling up a daycare, A community care facility licensing officer from the health ministry will be there one day a week to answer questions.- In addition to these services there will also be a childcare room, where ‘care praviders can bring groups of children logether for coordinated play time or projects. “Care providers can feel very isolated,” said Peltier, and may not have help or even the opportunity to talk to other adulls. The Family Place will give them an opportunity -to nicet with other caregivers, and to bring their chitdren. Darlene Westerman, program. coordinator at the Family Place, will also be offering a wide variety-of programs for families and care givers. , Examples of some programs the centre may offer are: _ parenting, nutrition and toilet training, introducing money | to kids, teaching children how to make decisions, and self estcem for adolescent girls. What type of programs the facility offers will depend also on community responses, Staff are trying to put 1o- gether-a community body which will help run the place. It’s now being run by the women’s centre, also just across the street. “As groups start to use il some of those people will hopefully become part of a steering committee,’ said Weslerman. . oe A NEW ACCESS centre for anyone needing informatian about child care opens next week in a renovated house on Park Ave. Pictured on the front step are three staff members, Ann Peltier, Darlene Westerman, and Tina Doyle. They liked the dancing but didn’t go for meetings THE MEETINGS were all but ignored, but the turn out for the dancing was good at the first ever Tsimshian Gathering of the Clans _ three weeks ago. Band representatives from Alaska, Wash- ington, the coast and the northwest were in- -viled to Terrace recently to discuss the fate of the Tsimshian culture. -Organizers put the turn out for the meet- ings at somewhere belween 25 to 50 people a day for the four day conference. And the majority of the people who did show up were elders from out of town. Organizer Bossy Bolton blamed the poor turnout’ on nol enough advertising, Al- though all the band offices were faxed a message about the gathering, that message was often ignored, buried in a large pile of faxes, said Bollon, However, those. who did come to the meetings accomplished quite a lot, he added. Discussions cenlered on who deserved a name, how old docs an elder have to be and who should wear the bution blanket. “We decided that names should not leave the tribe or family,”’ said Bolton. That means someone wha is adopted imo a ‘Tsimshian family will not be given a tradi- tional Tsimshian name. Instead they will be at Nartnco : Eg THANK-YOU. From Northcoast Anglers. For your support during our sale. We hope that you had as much fun as we had and we look forwarc fo seeing you ast Anglers often. = Check out White Outdoor's easy-driving, smooth-cutting hydrostatic tractors. Durable, reliable and great for laree mowing jobs, they're priced hundreds less than the premium-priced brands. Hydrostatic features start with a rugged oil-pressure activated driveline, preset speed control.on hills and smooth, clutch- less speed and direction controi. 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