As part of the Best Start Initiative, Lambton Rural Child Care has opened the Brooke Alvinston Child Care Centre, located in Brooke Central Public School.

The Child Care Centre offers, not only child care, but will help to identify and intervene in pre-school speech and language and infant hearing and speech. They will offer public health programs, including postpartum/maternal depression assistance, nutritional programs, parenting programs and early learning programs for children not yet eligible for JK.

The Brooke Alvinston Hub will also assist the community with the development of links to specialized services for children and families requiring additional support. The services offered within the Brooke Alvinston Hub will be available for all children and families in the communities, not just for the children attending Brooke Central Public School.

Lambton Rural Child Care has been chosen to operate the childcare and early learning programs for the community. The childcare programs offered by Lambton Rural Child Care will enhance the single integrated seamless point of access to a wide range of core child programs to enhance the healthy early development. Their program offers a minimum of 67 childcare spaces to the community. The programs will offer childcare spaces for infants, toddlers, junior and intermediate preschool, the ELF program, school aged children and before and after school children.

On Earth Day, the Child Care Hub celebrated with a tree planting ceremony. The trees were donated by SA&P in Petrolia from their “Branch out with New Businesses Cards” campaign. They gave away Free Trees to anybody who bought business cards. The campaign was a success with over 125 trees planted in and around Sarnia-Lambton.

For more information about SA&P please visit their website at www.stokesap.ca or call (519) 333 -3318.