Our kids are worth it

Our Kids Are Worth It responds to Recommendation 25: The province should immediately begin the development and implementation of a public, comprehensive, collaborative, and effective interdepartmental strategy to co-ordinate its programs, interventions, services, and supports to children and youth at risk, and their families, with a particular focus on the prevention of youth crime and a reduction [...] A Pyramid of Needs and Supports In Helping Kids, Protecting Communities, we presented a pyramid that represents the range of needs of children and youth and the range of supports and interventions required to respond. [...] These children and youth are the 85 to 90 per cent of the children in the base of the pyramid who succeed with basic and preventative programs and services for families, in schools, and in communities. [...] Guiding Principles Based on the context for this strategy and in developing our priorities and actions, we are being guided by the following principles: Principle What This Means Our programs and services must be Designed to meet the real and practical needs of child- and youth-centred. [...] Perhaps most significantly, babies and toddlers are learning how to relate to the people and world around them, based on their relationships with those closest to them and on how they are nurtured and introduced to the world.