Last week, Oxfam Canada launched their newest report, Who Cares? Why Canada Needs a Public Child Care System. Child care is one of the most feminized job sectors in Canada and early childhood educators are some of the most undervalued workers, resulting in low retention rates, low levels of job MORE
Best Start: Healthy Baby Healthy Brain launched three Playing Builds Brains videos that show parents actively engaging with their babies and toddlers in “serve & return” interactions within the context of everyday play, sensory play, and language and numbers play. It also includes links for further reading and resources.
Learn more about your Métis Early Years Navigators, who are located throughout the province and are reaching out to families with children from birth to age 8 and assisting them with enrolling in the Métis Early Years Program. The navigators will connect, support, and advocate for Métis families. Families can MORE
UBC’s Interprofessional Continuing Education is hosting their Early Years Conference on January 30-31 and February 1, 2020. The theme of this year’s conference is Listen Together, Learn Together, Act Together. It is a reminder that families and communities are central to the healthy development of young children. They are currently MORE
The Federation of Community Social Services of BC held a Social Policy Forum in February 2019. The program was full of speakers, working sessions, and engagement opportunities to create strong and sustainable community social services. Three of the presentations are now available online. Tim Agg presented on Reimagining Community Inclusion, and Allison Bond MORE
Early this year, the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health released a body of research that discusses three main themes of Indigenous Early Childhood Development in Canada: the context of young Indigenous children’s lives, the health and well-being of young Indigenous children, and intersectoral interventions for Indigenous child health. The report suggests MORE
Zero to Three recently released an infographic on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) to help professionals talk about social and emotional development. It provides the definition of IECMH and illustrates where social and emotional development can be promoted. Zero to Three encourages you to share the resource as a handout MORE
BC Association for Child Development and Intervention created the Specialized Sitter Training to assist individuals to further develop their knowledge, understanding, skills and attitude so they are better prepared to participate in the child specific training provided by the child’s family. The course includes 7 modules and the first training MORE
As part of BC’s Early Learning and Child Care Agreement with the federal government, the BC government has announced new investments in professional development and resources for early childhood educators (ECEs) and other child care providers. Six organizations, including First Call member organizations Early Childhood Educators of BC and Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, MORE
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The Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC), in partnership with the Province of British Columbia, has enhanced and expanded the ECE Bursary Program, now known as the ECE Education Support Fund. This new program contains two funding programs: The Early Childhood Education (ECE) Student Bursary Program and the new ECE MORE
The Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre conducted an online survey earlier this year of all staff working in centre-based child care programs in Vancouver to collect data on wages and benefits of educators and administrators. One result from the 627 completed surveys (92% female respondents) found the median hourly wage MORE
Since 2003, BC has pioneered early years community development from 3 community coalitions to over 100 coalitions who have focused local energy and attention towards supporting families with young children. As a tribute to this amazing group of early years community developers, the Early Years Community Development Institute (EYCDI) invites you MORE
The $10aDay Child Care Plan has launched a new website design that includes a “Track Progress” section where they will regularly post about government announcements, policies, programs, budgets, and other updates. They also released the first of four policy briefs about what’s working (and what’s worrying) about the government’s approach to child care. The MORE
Gary Evans and Pilyoung Kim published an article to expand the conversation past how poverty affects development on parental investment and parenting practices. They wanted to study how chronic stress and coping may impact early childhood poverty throughout life. They found that disadvantaged children are more likely to confront physical and psychosocial stressors, MORE