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Our Parent Café conversation resources are available for use with parents, caregivers and educators to help explore their role in supporting healthy early development and literacy and learning.

Join us on June 13 for the First 2000 Days Early Childhood Development network for a spring Report to the Community. For more information visit www.2000days.ca

Thank you for joining our Cafe Community at the 2014 AGM and/or supporting our activities over the last year. We invite you to join us in Cafe conversation to explore our work and learnings over the past year. We look forward to connecting with you then. Where:  Sarah Scout Hall, 609 Rideau Road SW, Calgary When:  Wednesday, November […]

In collaboration with our partners at the First 2000 Days Network, Café is sharing our Parent Café early years community conversation resource with organizations across the province to support this amazing period of development. Contact Cafe for orientation and further resources.

You are invited to the Cafe Institute’s 2014 AGM.  Please join us as Dr. Tim Goddard, founding president of Café, shares some reflections on how an asset-based perspective informs his work.Drawing on experiences in fragile contexts, Tim will highlight common threads of learning related to education and development.

Explore Café and First 2000 Days Network’s partners collaboratively developed Early Years Conversation Café resource.

The Calgary Association of Parents and School Councils provides resources, information and support to all CBE school councils. 

CBE unveils plans for new ‘community hub’ high school in Calgary’s NE.

Calgary Reads hosted a Little Free Library launch on October 17, 2013 with speaker Todd Bol, social entrepreneur and founder of the Little Free Library movement out of Madison, Wisconsin.  He shared his stories and inspired the guests to get building, painting and stewarding their very own library. Those wishing to steward a Little Free Library in their community […]

Alberta has one of the lowest graduation rates in Canada. This impacts more than just the students not completing school.   In June 2013 the United Way Calgary and area and its partners launched a ground-breaking initiative that will connect Calgary’s youth to the opportunities they need to be successful in school and beyond. The […]