Investing in children early on helps improve long-term outcomes.
Inside CASA Mental Health’s Preschool Day Program classrooms, you’ll find some of our youngest patients. Four- and five-year olds attend the program two days a week during the school year. There is a maximum class size of nine students in each cohort, ensuring each student receives specialized support from a team of experts.
The Preschool Day Program is free for families and helps set up preschool-aged kids for success when they enter Grade 1 in their home schools. You can support this program, and other wrap-around services at CASA, by making a gift today.
The Preschool Day Program receives funding from the Alberta government and is generously supported by donors. Donor funds may be used for professional help for kids and parents, like speech therapy and parent coaching, as well as to purchase:
- Classroom supplies.
- Tools that help with emotional regulation, like noise-cancelling headphones and weighted toys.
- Bus tickets to help families get to the program.
Looking for another way to give? CASA Mental Health offers easy, safe and secure alternatives to giving online. You can donate by e-transfer or over the phone at 780-400-2270. As well as online giving, we also gratefully accept donations like securities.
Meet Tiara Slingerland, Mental Health Therapist
The best part of Tiara Slingerland’s job is seeing the growth in the children who attend CASA Mental Health’s Preschool Day Program, and also their parents.
The Preschool Day Program helps children ages four and five who experience severe challenges managing their emotions and behaviour. Tiara has been with the program for four years, first as a therapy support assistant and now as a mental health therapist.
“We have about nine kids in each cohort, so that also helps that we’re able to really give our full attention, and also our empathy and our capacity to give intensive interventions to each kiddo,” says Tiara. “Because we are a smaller group and we have a big team, we have all those capacities.”
