Children's Recreation and Social Activities

Offers a variety of programs for youth to help explore and develop life long skills.
Projects include:

• Agriculture (livestock production and management through the experience of owning, caring for, showing and marketing projects, and maintaining records)
• Food and Entertaining (opportunities to lean about food preparation and nutrition)
• Creative Arts (different areas of art and design)
• Industrial Technologies (introductory industrial technical learning projects that will help build useful life skills)
• The Great Outdoors (outdoor projects and activities that include recreation and plant projects)
• Leadership (for high school students to develop leadership and employment skills)

4-H clubs are located across Epekwitk / PEI.

• Swimming
• Family movie days
• Sleigh rides
• Skating
• Sandspit days
• Bowling

Workers provide ongoing support to parents through home visits Island-wide. Services during visits include:

• Activities to help with baby's growth and development
• Sharing information on topics like health, safety, nutrition, and language
• Support for postpartum and parental mental health
  
• Support to achieve personal goals
• Connections to other community resources for families

Email below contacts to learn more about the program.

Kings County:beststartkings@chancesfamily.ca

Prince County:beststartprince@chancesfamily.ca

Queens County:beststartqueens@chancesfamily.ca

To register, call a local Public Health Nursing office to get a referral. Visit the website for the list of contact.

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• Regular outings
• Trust
• Common interests
• Support by experienced mentoring coordinators

Provides variety of virtual recreational programs for children with sight loss to connect with peers to socialize while learning or playing. Includes:

• Listening to live reading
• Singing and dancing together
• Playing game and more

• Cooking classes
• Games
• Crafts
• Learning strategies to help better manage living with arthritis
• Making friends with others going through similar experience
• Scavenger hunts
• Dance parties

• Free play
• Crafts
• Snacks
• Outings and events
• Guest presenters
• Circle time for stories and songs

• Intensive Behavioural Intervention (I.B.I.) for up to 25 hours per week to help children with communication and everyday living skills
• Transition to school planning
• Intensive Kindergarten Support (I.K.S.)

Executive Functioning Art Classes: Provides an art class to strengthen executive functioning skills in children, youth, and adults with learning disabilities and neurodivergence. Through guided, hands-on art activities, participants will build executive functioning and life skills while expressing themselves creatively in a supportive environment.

Executive Functioning Games Club: A program where children with learning disabilities and neurodivergence can build executive functioning and life skills through board games, while developing friendships and social connections in a supportive environment.