Children First

1. Located in Windsor, Ontario

2. Their Vision: To support families and children to help them reach their full potential. To help make them feel included as part of a community. And providing tailored support by professionals.

3. They offer a variety of services for families including mental health assesment, consultation, intervention, education, support adovcacy, and tranistion to school planning

4. They also provide a variety of programs for parents and siblings, such as the Parenting Program, Sibling support groups. Both programs help family members cope with difficulties that can arise in families.

5. Services are accessed simply by contacting them, and describing your concerns. A staff member will then assess your situation and provide you with recommendations on how to proceed.

6. They also provide support and programs for educators as well, doing lunch and learns, and workshops at schools in the Windsor areas.

7. They provide support to children and families of children who have developmental/mental health issues.

8. For infants to age 6

9. Under their philosophy section on the web page, they talk about their family centred philosophy. They make several points, but one thing is clear in all of them, the use of "all people" or "all families"

10. In using this type of wording, they include anyone/everyone, and make it clear that they are truly an inclusive organization

11. http://www.children-first.ca