Authors Articles by Five Counties Children's Centre

Articles by Five Counties Children's Centre

Five Counties Children's Centre
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Serving children in the counties of Haliburton, Northumberland, Peterborough, and the City of Kawartha Lakes, Five Counties Children’s Centre provides therapy services that assist children who are delayed in their development to build the skills they need in everyday life such as walking, talking, and activities of daily living. For more information, visit www.fivecounties.on.ca.
Ange, a physiotherapist at Five Counties Children's Centre, leads kids through exercises designed to help them find their stride. The Five Counties kids were part of the Heel-Toe Express Group piloted this summer. The physiotherapy program helps teach exercises and stretches to children who continue to walk on their toes, either due to underlying medical conditions or because it's idiopathic. (Photo courtesy of Five Counties Children's Centre)

There’s no tip-toeing around Heel-Toe Express Group program at Five Counties Children’s Centre

Physiotherapy program helps kids who walk on their toes hit their stride by making treatment fun.
Five Counties Occupational Therapist Ashley Parsons swears by the six F-words for child development: Family, Fun, Friends, Functioning, Fitness, and Future. She sees tremendous value in the F-words framework that shifts thinking from a medical model of "fixing" kids with disabilities or impairment to one that focuses on a child's strengths and interests. (Photo: Five Counties Children's Centre)

Five Counties Children’s Centre swears by the six F-words of child development

Family, Fun, Friends, Functioning, Fitness, and Future moves away from a medical model of 'fixing' kids with disabilities or impairment.
Five Counties Children's Centre board chair Julie Davis (far left) and Centre CEO Scott Pepin (far right) with four of the seven High-Five Community Recognition Awards recipients at the non-profit organization's annual meeting in late June 2024. Five Counties presents the awards each year to deserving individuals and groups that support and share the agency's vision of inclusion. (Photo: Five Counties Children's Centre)

Five Counties Children’s Centre gives ‘high-fives’ to those in the community who share its...

Three individuals and four organizations recently received the non-profit organization's High-Five Community Recognition Awards.
Five Counties Children's Centre recreation therapist Caitlin Ivany and Peterborough Youth Basketball Association diversity coordinator Joseph Hays pose with one of this spring's JumpBall participants. (Photo courtesy of Five Counties Children's Centre)

JumpBall program is a slam dunk with Five Counties kids and families

Run in partnership with Peterborough Youth Basketball Association, the program opens doors to a sport many kids might not otherwise play.
Five Counties is celebrating the start of summer with its gala fundraising event, the Backyard Summer Social, on June 22, 2024. (Photo: Five Counties Children's Centre)

Why Five Counties Children’s Centre’s Backyard Summer Social is much more than fun and...

Annual adults-only fundraiser supports high-demand kids treatment services in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton.
Hayley Hodge's new position at Five Counties Children's Centre will help improve the experiences and support for kids, youth, and families who come there for treatment. As the centre's new client and family experience lead, she can draw on her own experiences being a client of the centre as a child. (Photo courtesy of Five Counties Children's Centre)

Hayley Hodges comes full circle at Five Counties Children’s Centre

A former child client, Hodges is now the organization's new client and family experience lead.
Parents Stephen and Victoria are grateful for the speech treatment they received at Five Counties Children's Centre for their four-year-old son Ollie. While Five Counties employs highly skilled clinicians for speech treatment services, parents and caregivers are often a child's best therapist. As they spend the most time with their child, their role in following through at home with the treatment tips and strategies learned through Five Counties is vital to help their child succeed. (Photo courtesy of Five Counties)

Why parents play an essential role in a child’s treatment success

While Five Counties Children's Centre clinicians are highly skilled, children make faster progress when their parents continue therapy at home,
Kawartha Gymnastics coach Nathan (left) gets a smile from two-year-old Mirha as she takes part in a new adaptive gymnastics program at the club. Looking on are Mirha's dad Mansoor and Five Counties Children's Centre recreation therapist Colleen Ristok. (Photo: Five Counties Children's Centre)

Five Counties partners with Kawartha Gymnastics and Peterborough YMCA to offer sports for kids...

Adaptive gymnastics and SPLASH swimming programs geared to young children with varying abilities, exceptionalities, and sensory issues.
Dr. Sean Godfrey (left), pictured with Five Counties Children's Centre CEO Scott Pepin, is a new consulting pediatrician joining Five Counties. He will spend about one-quarter of his time seeing clients at Five Counties sites in Peterborough, Lindsay, and Cobourg and the remainder of his time seeing and supporting children and families from across Peterborough, Northumberland, Kawartha Lakes, and Haliburton at the private medical practice he is establishing at the Five Counties site in Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of Five Counties Children's Centre)

A boost to pediatric care in the greater Kawarthas region is just what the...

Dr. Sean Godfrey will support kids with special needs at Five Counties Children's Centre and also support children and families from across the region.
Fifteen-year-old Kaydance (in wheelchair) stops by Five Counties' Seating and Mobility Clinic with her mom April (standing, second from right) to get her chair adjusted. Also pictured are (standing, from left) Five Counties technician Luke, occupational therapist Kate Jaboor, and seating and mobility consultant Stewart from Motion Peterborough. Crouched beside Kaydance is Five Counties physiotherapist Ange Harrison. (Photo courtesy of Five Counties Children's Centre)

Five Counties Children’s Centre seating and mobility clinic helps ‘prescribe’ inclusion and participation for...

Last year, 77 kids and their families were supported at by-referral clinic that operates at Five Counties sites in Lindsay, Peterborough, and Cobourg.

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