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Child & Youth Planning Network (CYPN)


The Chatham-Kent Child and Youth Planning Network (CYPN) is a table for leaders representing various Chatham-Kent child and youth-focused organizations and community partners serving ages prenatal to 21 years.

If you are interested in receiving information regarding CYPN or joining the committee, please email ccey@chatham-kent.ca.

In 2019, CYPN achieved foundational milestones in 'turbo-charging' our impact as a community collective. Together, we:

  • Developed a CK CYPN 'Connector Team' which acts as a support for the Chair and an Advisory Team for the CYPN
  • Engaged CYPN Leaders in discussions on their 'vision', readiness for change, priority themes, and high-level range of options for network models
  • Identified four (4) priority themes that create a 'framework' for the key ingredients of what matters to the CYPN:
    1. Family Voice 
    2. Equity & Access   
    3. Partnerships & Innovation
    4. Data & Knowledge Management

CYPN Meetings

Generally, CYPN meets on the first Wednesday of each month. We have implemented a new Meeting Calendar to help keep everyone informed of and prepared for our upcoming topics. We have also designed a document, the CYPN Presentation Template, to aid our members or guests in presenting ideas, projects, etc. to the team and creating discussions resulting in actionable items.

Keeping TraCK

Keeping TraCK is a website which provides well-being information about children and youth in Chatham-Kent. It is an initiative of the Chatham-Kent Child and Youth Planning Network (CYPN).

The goals of Keeping TraCK are: 

  • to create a robust and centralized collection of datasets related to the well-being of children and youth in Chatham-Kent 
  • to provide tools for analyzing and visualizing data 
  • to support data-driven program planning and decision-making 
  • to identify well-being disparities so that resources may be effectively targeted to areas of high need
  • to reduce duplication, siloes, and costs in data collection
  • to improve well-being outcomes for children and youth

Keeping TraCK - Child and Youth Well-being in Chatham-Kent

CYPN Resources