Taibu Community Health Centre provides a range of services to promote health and well-being for residents of Malvern, including free clinical care, dental care, nutrition programs, and exercise classes for children, seniors, and families. The agency offers early childhood programs to help prepare preschoolers for kindergarten through their Ready, Set, Go program. As a future early childhood educator, the author believes it is important to create awareness of community services and help connect families in need to programs that can support children's development and well-being.

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Individual GC & E Reflection Paper – Part 4
The agency I visited was Taibu Community Health Centre. While visiting Taibu
Community Health Centre I found out about the Early Year’s Program and it was a good
experience to visit this agency. Taibu Community Health Care promotes health and
well-being by providing comprehensive primary health care to the people of Malvern
with a complementary aim of delivering specialized services for the Black community.
Taibu has different services that I liked for example: there is a free clinical service and
dental care for children 0-18 and senior who are 65+ years old, free yoga class, free
nutrition program, free chiropodist and physicians. Taibu offered several early programs
ranging from Pre & Post natal groups, to parenting groups to kindergarten readiness
program in the community. Taibu also provides SocalCize program, Salsa Line Dancing
and Indian & Western dance and yoga program. The Ready, Set, Go program is a good
program for the preschool children and other children that are 3-5 years old because it’s
a two week program for the children and it gets the kindergarten children get ready for
school. I didn’t know such service facilities offered so much to the needy public and I
was very impressed by their range of services. Without services like the once they offer
many people in the community would not have access to such range of services due to
financial difficulties and I was touched by how much children come to use the facilities,
as I am a strong believer that support like this to families and children help create a
better future for families and children that are not as privileged.
The presentation revealed a lot of information on the different types of services
provided around the GTA community and the type of impact such programs has on

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families and children in our community. Knowing about such services will be beneficial
for a future Early Childhood Educator like my-self. The key issues that I noticed many
people noticed from their presentation was that many agencies are assisting children
with special needs, teenage parents requiring support, people coming from abuse and
immigrants trying to find jobs. As a special needs child I received a lot of support from
the schools I attended as well as family so I know firsthand how important such services
like these are for children. Hence, I strongly believe governments should keep funding
such programs to help everyone who wants help to improve their lives. Also, many
immigrants are new to the country so it’s very difficult them to know how to approach job
searches hence having services that help such people is important. The fundamental
item to help improve their lives is money so they could afford other underlying things like
medications and affordable homes. Also, a parent’s ability to provide for their children
also impacts the children’s lives in many ways.
As a future Early Childhood Educator I have a responsibility to support families. I can
help the families by telling them about the different community centres around the GTA
this ways I will be creating awareness to certain people who otherwise might not have
heard about such facilities and services available in our community. Another method I
could implement in the future is inviting community centre representative to the daycare
to have a workshop that talks about the services available at their community centre, as
we all have a responsibility to help those less fortunate then us in any way possible.
Especially when there are government funded program available that just need
exposure so families in need can seek their help. Daycares can also provide pamphlets

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with information and leave at the daycares for parents to see when they come to pick up
their kids. As a Global Citizen everyone including myself should be doing even the
smallest things to help those in need, the smallest impact can go a long way for some
families.