Rideau Child & Family Hub Usage Review Sept 2015 to March 31, 2016

Rideau Child & Family Hub –usage review Sept 2015 to March 31, 2016

The Rideau Child & Family Hub was in the process of being established during the summer of 2015. It was launched in September of 2015. This information summarizes the use of the Hub for the first 2 quarters [Sept to Dec 2015, Jan to March 2016].

Communication:

To date the opportunity to develop a web page on the EKIOC site has not actualized, the Facebook page is linked to CRCHC web site.

The Facebook site continues to post information of value to Families in Rideau Lakes and a guide to ‘what to post’ has been created. To date we have 87 ‘likes’. The post reach [per day] shows significant variation with a range from 3 to 185, during the second quarter showing a more stable daily range of 30-60 consistently. ‘Shares’ early on showed a range of 0 to 2 per day, growing to a range since Jan of 0 to 5 per day.

Education/Information sharing:

Event attendance/contacts are tracked and are summarized by category below:

Sept thru Dec ’15:

Best Start events [young children]: 31

Addictions: 1

Special Needs: 12

Low income programs/information: 106 [includes food security. Ontario electricity, computers for low income, trillium drug plan, dental plan]

Arts: 10 [volunteer knitters]

Jan thru Mar’16:

Addictions and Mental Health: 1

Housing : 2

Education : 3

Dental : 2

Health : 3

Facility use (phone, fax, bathroom): 14

Seniors [tea]: 8

Financial (oesp, i/tax, leap, fro, etc): 23

Volunteer info: 3

Computers for low income earners: 7

Navigation/Scheduling : 16

CMHLG: 47

Giveaways (seeds, produce, dog food, knitting): 43

Integration:

The following is a list of partner agencies that have supported activity at the hub [H] or have had program info posted on the Facebook page [FB]

Read to Every Kid H, FB

Best Start H

Making Play Possible FB,

BDACI H

Health Unit FB

Welcome Wagon H

Elgin Giving Gardeners H, FB

United Counties of L&G FB

Rideau Lakes Library H, FB

Children’s Mental Health H, FB

UCDSB FB

CDSBEO FB

Township of Rideau Lakes H, FB

EKIOC H, FB

Country Roads Community Health Centre [Health, Early Years, Community Programs] H, FB

CRCHC What’s Cooking FB

Ont Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care FB

Elgin and District Nursery School FB

Ont 211 FB

Employment and Education Centre H, FB

Healthy Kids Community Challenge FB

Towns of Rideau Lakes [Elgin, Seeley’s Bay, Delta, Lyndhurst, Westport, Portland] FB

Language Express FB

Victims Issues FB

United Way of L&G H, FB

Alzheimer Society of Canada FB

Westport Public Library FB

Seniors H

Next Steps:

1-Continue to develop and standardize data collection methods to meet funder’s needs and provide simplified tracking that is comparative [with the help of the DAC].

2-Plan for a committee meeting Apr/May. Agenda to include expanding reach and ‘hard to reach’ populations.