First Steps​

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First Steps offers programs and support to both pregnant and/or parenting young women.  It is the only home of its type in Atlantic Canada.  First Steps provides a safe, supportive, transitional home for pregnant and/or parenting young women. The women will have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Access to prenatal care is guaranteed, as is the provision of proper nutrition throughout the pregnancy. As part of the success story of this facility, former residents who have delivered babies while living in the First Steps program have all delivered babies with healthy birth weights. This is            

a significant acheivement when viewed in the light of the research from the Massey Centre for Women, an award-winning, non-profit community agency located in Toronto, that the estimated costs to support a premature infant before leaving the hospital is approximately $200,000. This estimate does not take into account the cost later to society in terms of poor development of the child with the added possibility of a marginalized future.