Province celebrates Early Childhood Intervention Programs
Early Childhood Intervention week is underway in Saskatchewan, celebrating those who help young children on the path to success.
Gord Wyant, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Education, declared May 27 to June 2 Early Childhood Intervention Program Week across the province. For the staff at the Prince Albert Early Childhood Intervention Program, having their work recognized is a great feeling.
“We’re working with children who also have delays and are home with their families; those are areas that can get ignored by a lot of the world,” Anne McIntosh, the organizations executive director, said.
McIntosh said the organization works with families who have children who experienced developmental delays, whether they are mental, physical, or emotional. The team works directly with parents and children up to kindergarten age, McIntosh said, and the service doesn’t dictate to families how to work with their children. Rather, she said their staff work as a team to increase the quality of life for both the family and the child. The service is empowering to parents, she added, because it makes them teachers and gives them the tools they need to best provide for their child’s needs.