May 5th & May 6th 8 pm

May 12th & May 13th 8 pm

 -with 2 matinees on May 6^th & 13^th 2017 at 1 pm

What is the Kizmet Centre?

Centre Kizmet will be a place where young children will be given the lifelong advantages provided by growing up in a vibrant, supportive family within a caring community.

• $2M dollar family resource centre in the West Island available to all families with young children.
• A gymnasium, play rooms, multipurpose rooms, meeting areas, a community kitchen and administrative offices.
• Grand Opening in December 2017!

Did you know that…

• • 70% of adult mental health issues can be traced back to the first six years of life.
  • By the time Canadian children turn six, about 3 in 10 exhibit signs of poor readiness which may hamper their learning and progress at school.
  • Canada ranks 17th out of all developed nations in terms of its economic investment in early childhood.
  • In Canada, the lifetime economic cost of childhood mental health disorders is $200 billion.
  • 1 in 5 children have a mental disorder and the number has been rising for a decade.
  • Almost half the children who will become violent as adolescents can be identified as early as age 7.
  • Raising Canada to the average level of early childhood investment in other advanced economies would cost $3 to $4 billion. That’s about the same amount taxpayers spend annually on prisons.
  • Canada ranks 27th out of 29 countries on children’s health and safety and 22nd on infant mortality rates.