by HomeOfEighT8 | Sep 15, 2012 | Advice, Parenting, Resources
Although relationship violence has been declining since the early 1990s, data indicates that young adults are at greatest risk for getting caught up in different types of relationship violence. A new study from Child Trends examined relationship violence as reported...
by HomeOfEighT8 | May 28, 2012 | Health, Resources
VICTORIA — Infants will soon have a better chance of being born free of alcohol and drug related health challenges, and life-long health and social issues, with the opening of a new drop-in centre close to downtown Victoria for pregnant women with substance use and...
by HomeOfEighT8 | May 4, 2012 | Advice, Featured Article, Nicole's Blog, Parenting, Resources
Alone. Feeling alone. Parenting alone. Single parenting is not the same though. Alone takes on a very different meaning. You can be lonely in a room full of people or lonely sitting on the couch in an empty room. You can only be truly, physically alone in one of those...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Apr 11, 2012 | Advice, Nicole's Blog, Resources
So I sit here and the title of this blog post would be “Show Me The Money, Honey”. But I am conflicted as I write this because I want to write from a place that represents living in poverty and trying to raise a child. But I also have this other compelling side to...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Apr 2, 2012 | Advice, Resources
Suicides are increasing at an alarming rate among Canadian girls, with hanging, strangulation and other forms of suffocation now the predominant methods used by children and adolescents – regardless of sex – to kill themselves. It’s a disturbing phenomenon that...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Mar 26, 2012 | Advice, Nicole's Blog, Resources
So today is the first day of trying to keep up with all my brilliant ideas and to start to blog about my experiences as a young parent outreach worker. I know I have it in me; the ideas are always filling my head. Trying to source material for the parents I work with...
