What Can the Community Do?

Communities can:

• Build a culture that values, includes, respects, encourages and celebrates children
• Provide safe, substance free environments for children to learn, play and grow
• Ensure that all children have equitable access to recreation

Business/Labour can:

• Increase philanthropic contributions with a primary focus on prevention and early intervention
• Incorporate support for children and youth into marketing programs
• Encourage, recognize and support employee volunteer contributions in the community
• Seek ideas from employees about how to have a positive impact on children’s development
• Develop family-friendly workplaces, including flexible work arrangements and assistance with access to high-quality childcare services
• Adopt a children’s charity
• Make social responsibility a key component of organizational culture

Media/Communications can:

• Consider impact on children and youth in all productions and publications
• Make children’s issues a key priority
• Promote healthy outcomes for children

Individuals can:

• Participate in private/public discussions about issues facing children and youth
• Advocate for children
• Be good role models
• Volunteer, tutor, coach
• Listen to children and youth

 For information on volunteer opportunities, CLICK HERE.

Looking for more ways to get involved?

For more information on services that support children in your community, including volunteer opportunities, call 211 or visit http://www.211edmonton.com/     

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