WCP nights at SES on Tuesdays, WES on Wednesdays & at Elijah Smith Elementary on Thursdays, 5:30 to 7:00 PM except Swim nights. See schedules for dates & times on our news page or as linked below. |
4181 Fourth Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, CANADA Y1A 1J7 867-456-3871 (tel)
For more info contact: Crystal Pearl-Hodgins (Executive Director) cphodgin@yesnet.yk.ca or
Barbara Curtis (Outreach Worker) barbara.curtis@yesnet.yk.ca |
We are a school-based, family support & recreation program. We offer free recreational evenings three times weekly to all families: Tuesdays at Selkirk Elementary, Wednesdays at Whitehorse Elementary, and Thursdays at Elijah Smith Elementary. All of our recreational programs are free. Regular activities at our Open School nights can include open gym, open computer lab, crafts or cooking with kids, parenting workshops and monthly free Family Swim Nights.
We also offer confidential supports to families and youth regardless of catchment area, age of children, financial status, etc. Our confidential supports include: advocacy for families, information on other family support agencies or programs, and assist with referrals. Our supports are specifically designed for each family we work with. If you think we can help your family just give us a call at 456-3871.
In addition, we partner with other organizations to provide workshop series such as Nobody's Perfect Parenting, Parent-Child Mother Goose, Red Cross Babysitting courses, Literacy workshops for Parents etc. |
Wednesday, October 5/2011 was the National Family Celebration Dinner. This event is co-sponsored by Many Rivers Counseling and Support Service & the Whole Child Program. The special evening of family fun ran from 5:00 - 7:00PM and offerred a delicious dinner of lasagna, salad & chocolate cake, an evening of special family events and entertainment, and incredible door prizes provided by a large number of local businesses...and the best part...IT was ALL FREE! This year we had an all-time participation rate of 520! Thanks to our co-sponsors, all the families that joined us for the celebration. THANK YOU!
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Christmas Crafts for families |
Mini Gingerbread Houses for kids |
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Mini Gingerbread Houses with Sharon MacCoubrey |
More Gingerbread House building! |
| We presented the WCP at the New Brunswick Teachers' Association Conference on "Inclusion" in Fredericton, N.B. in December 2006 thanks to the support from the Canadian Association of Community Living. |
The RCMP's National Youth Strategy sponsored Cpl. Grant MacDonald & Crystal Pearl-Hodgins to present the WCP at the Canadian Chiefs of Police conference in Winnipeg, March 2007 and we were interviewed for CTV and CBC's Radio-Canada. |
| Barbara Curtis & Crystal Pearl-Hodgins also provided a workshop on the WCP at the National Inner-City Schools Conference by the Toronto School Board & Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, April 2007. |
We also presented the WCP at the National Health Symposium here in Whitehorse, September 24-25/2008. |
Monday, March 19, 2012
C. Pearl-Hodgins |
Gingerbread House Building 
Family Swim Nights
