Our Programs

Suitable For: Parents

This 7-week adult program addresses the issues of anger management, stress management, communication skills and emotional intelligence. It places emphasis on understanding emotions, enhancing communication and stress management skills, and gaining the ability to recognize triggers of anger and manage feelings of anger in a productive way.

It is facilitated in a group setting that is welcoming, safe and inclusive.

Suitable For: Parents

A 4-session, 2-hour program that facilitates the basic cooking skills allowing healthy, local, and lower cost food.

Please call to register.

Limited amount of space available.

Childcare available.

This program is offered occasionally

Suitable For: Parents & Caregivers

The Caregiver Café is a welcoming weekly gathering designed for parents and caregivers of children ages 0–6.

Held on Wednesday mornings from 8:30–10:00 a.m. (April 1 – June 3), the café offers a relaxed space to connect over coffee, share experiences, and build supportive relationships with other caregivers in the community.

Conversations are participant-led and inspired by the Nobody’s Perfect parenting program, focusing on positive parenting, understanding children’s development and behaviour, and building confidence and coping skills. The program helps reduce isolation by creating opportunities for meaningful conversation and mutual support.

Free childcare is available on-site, and drop-ins are welcome, though families are encouraged to give a heads-up if childcare will be needed so staff can plan accordingly.

Suitable For: Children 6 months - 5 yrs

This positive learning experience will give your child opportunities for peer interaction through play and access to many age-appropriate activities.

Childcare is provided when parents participate in our programs.

Our children’s program is offered during most of our parent programs to give you the comfort of knowing your child is being well cared for by our Early Childhood Educators.

The Circle of Security Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

Our trained Facilitators work with parents and caregivers to help them to understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs, support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions, enhance the development of their child's self esteem and honor the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure.

A parent-child interactive program facilitated at various off-site locations. Come explore the beautiful outdoors of Kings County!

It’s an opportunity to learn and appreciate our community. We have so much to offer. Breathe in the fresh Valley air and have some fun!

Raising your grandchildren can be challenging and rewarding. Ultimately, you want to provide them with a safe, nurturing, and structured home environment in which to grow and feel loved.

This program aims to create and strengthen intergenerational relationships and enrich the lives of grandparents, children, and families.

Suitable for: Parents & Caregivers

Handle with Care is an evidence-based parenting and caregiver program designed to support the social and emotional well-being of young children from birth to age six.

Through interactive activities, discussions, and practical tools, participants learn strategies to build strong relationships, support healthy emotional development, and strengthen family connections.

The program focuses on four key areas: building trust and attachment, enhancing self-esteem, understanding and expressing emotions, and developing positive relationships.

This program offers you an opportunity to have parent-child interaction and a chance to meet other families.

You will have times that you sing songs, have finger plays, and many more things.

Learn Through Play integrates all age groups and are offered at different sites.

Suitable For: Parents of young children

Our 10-week Nobody’s Perfect® program fosters peer support and shared learning.

Join other parents of young children to share questions and concerns about being a parent.

Together, with the support of a trained facilitator, you will discover positive ways to interact with your children.

Information and support is provided about topics such as child development, safety, health and behavior.

Childcare is provided. 

This program is offered occasionally

Suitable For: Parents

Our weekly parent group gives you the opportunity to meet other parents and form lasting friendships.

We offer fun activities as well as informative sessions that focus on parenting and personal growth.

Childcare is provided.

Suitable For: Parents & Caregivers

This is an introduction to basic canning at home. It will be a 5-week program where you can learn how to prepare and can your own fruit and veggies.

This program will include how to prepare and can jams and jellies, apple sauce, pasta sauce and pickles.

This program is offered occasionally

At the heart of Roots of Empathy is a neighbourhood infant and parent who visit the classroom every 3 weeks over the school year.

A trained ROE Instructor coaches students to observe the baby’s development and to label the baby’s feelings.

In this experiential learning, the baby is the “Teacher” and a lever, which the instructor uses to help children identify and reflect on their own feelings and the feelings of others.

This “emotional literacy” taught in the program lays the foundation for more safe and caring classrooms.

Kings County Family Resource Centre has one trained Roots of Empathy Instructors on staff that each visit a school in Kings County to teach the program to students.

For more information, please contact Stephanie at Family Matters 902 -678-5760 or email: Stephanie.Ruggles@kcfrc.ca

Suitable For: 18 months - 3 yrs

Does your toddler like to wiggle and jiggle, move and groove? If so, come on out to Toddler Tonics.

You will enjoy a morning of physical activity, fun and it will be a chance for you to meet new families.

Winter can be a challenging season for many families. For those who to want to be outside, Winter Wonderland brings fun into the season through mini winter activities over a 6-week period. 

Such activities include hiking, snow shoeing, coasting, indoor/outdoor skating, building snow volcanos, snow people, angels, and a sleigh ride.