These services can help support you during pregnancy and can connect you to other supports.
For French-speaking expectant and new mothers and their partners, as well as parents of children up to one year of age.
Contact for information.
Aims to educate new mothers on healthy interactions with their babies through prenatal classes, nutrition counselling, and postnatal home visits. The program includes:
Open to all parents ages 24 and younger with children ages 6 weeks to 6 years
Call the office before Thursday of each week to schedule an time.
Offers a respite program for young parents age 24 and younger. Children ages 6 weeks to 6 years can be dropped off while the parents run errands, attend appointments etc.
Expecting families who are willing to learn through Indigenous styles.
Contact for information.
Encourages and promotes healthy pregnancies for Aboriginal mothers and their babies, offering culturally appropriate support for babies up to 6 months of age and their families by improving maternal infant care, promoting healthy birth weights, and overall better health promotion for expecting mothers and their families. Services offered include:
Pregnant women and parents with children from birth up to school entry
Call Health Connections at 905-546-3550 for referral information or fax referral
Public health nurses and family home visitors provide prevention, early intervention, and prenatal support to at-risk families. Focus is on healthy child development and parenting skills. Services include:
Open to all Indigenous new parents.
Contact for information.
Assists Indigenous families in providing the best opportunities for the healthy development of children 0-6 years of age through education, family home visits, service coordination, and referrals.
Young parents aged 18-25 years old.
Contact for information.
A partnership between Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board and Good Shepherd that provides young parents the opportunity to complete their high school education, with on-site child care for their children.
Must be a parent between 16 and 25 years old and receiving support from Ontario Works and/or the Ontario Disability Support Program.
Phone or email for information. Ontario Works recipients can call directly or speak to their case manager.
Offers support to young parents navigating a return to secondary school, adult education or alternative education options to complete secondary school (Grade 12). The LEAP program also provides encouragement and enhancement of parenting skills through community involvement as well as promoting independence, self esteem, and job readiness as a part of the City of Hamilton’s Youth Team.
Open to young parents in Hamilton.
Contact for information or to register.
Provides community support and case management services to pregnant and parenting youth.
The main components of programming are:
First time mothers, 21 years of age or less, in first or second trimester of pregnancy.
Call Health Connections at 905-546-3550 for referral information or fax referral
A prenatal and infancy home visitation program for young, first time parents provided by public health nurses. Program begins during pregnancy and for the first two years of the children’s lives.
Goals include improving pregnancy outcomes, improving child health and development, and improving parents' self-sufficiency. Nurses provide support and education on health, child development, parenting issues, life goals and access to community resources.
Public health nurses are available to visit agencies and organizations, to further explain the program and the referral process.
New or expecting parents.
Fill out the registration form online.
A free, online program for new or expectant parents, that can be done at their own pace using a computer or mobile device. Topics covered:
Young parents, 29 years and under.
Contact for information.
A one-stop model of access to services for young parents that strives to meet their children’s early developmental needs.
Programs include:
Pregnant individuals can join and stay until their babies are 6 months of age. A participant can only be registered in one Prenatal Nutrition Program (Welcome Baby) group.
Choose one Welcome Baby group to attend and register on your first visit. Email cpnp@hamilton.ca or call Health Connections at 905-546-3550 for information.
Free weekly groups for pregnant individuals. Discussions with a Registered Nurse and Registered Dietitian include pregnancy, labour and birth, managing stress, eating well and cooking healthy food, breastfeeding, and community supports. Grocery gift cards, multivitamin gift cards, and bus tickets are provided as needed.
Young and expecting parents, age 14-21 years.
Contact the guidance counsellor at the parent's school for registration information.
Students bring their infant to the classroom with them, where they work with a Secondary School teacher to earn credits and receive hands-on parenting support from an Early Childhood Educator. Students have the opportunity to learn alongside other young parents and connect with a variety of community resources such as the Ontario Early Years Centres.
Parents ages 25 and younger.
Contact for more information.
Provides individualized ongoing support to pregnant and parenting youth and their children using a collaborative approach to help remove barriers and engage parents to develop skills, foster resiliency, and increase self-efficacy through coordination of access to community-based services, and planning and coordination of multidisciplinary services such as:
Open to all new mothers aged 14 to 20.
For registration information contact the school liaison at 905-522-7336.
School programs serving pregnant and/or parenting young women and their infants. Program consists of 3 Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board teachers and a Program Liaison, working together to ensure young moms achieve as many credits as possible, while continuing to build on their parenting skills, manage their finances, connect with community supports like Public Health, and more. The Infant Playtime Plus (IPP) serves infants 6 weeks to 24 months while mothers attend an on-site school program.