The Growing Healthy Families Program of the Porcupine Health Unit works with other agencies within the Cochrane District to offer a variety of Triple P services.

Nurses, dietitians, speech and language pathologists and/or family home visitors can work with families with children up to the age of 16 to provide Triple P services.  Services offered by the health unit can include telephone support, clinic visits, home visiting or seminars.

Call your local health unit office to learn more about Triple P services in your area. 

Branch Offices

Population Served

• Francophone
• Anglophone
• Children 0-18 years of age
• Parents
• Families
• Caregivers
• Aboriginal

Levels Offered

Level 2 Selected Individual
Level 2 Seminars (Moosonee only)
Level 2 Teen Seminars (Moosonee only)
Level 3 Primary Care
Level 3 Primary Teen
Level 4 Group (Moosonee only)
Level 4 Group Teen (Moosonee only)
Level 4 Standard (through Healthy Babies, Healthy Children)
Level 5 Lifestyle

Lifestyle Triple P set to start in Timmins and Kapuskasing

 Lifestyle Triple P is a new and effective program that helps parents foster healthy lifestyle habits in their children that will last a lifetime.  The program focuses on healthy nutrition, activity and positive parenting.

To qualify, parents must:

• Have a child between the ages of 5 to 10 years of age
• Be able to commit to 10 group sessions and 4 individual telephone consultations
• Have an overweight child.

The next Lifestyle Triple P series will begin in September 2011.  Afterwards, families will be placed on a waiting list and contacted when another series begins.

Contact the Porcupine Health Unit at 705-267-1181 or nicole.ethier@porcupinehu.on.ca for more information about this program.