Tip Sheets
Working With Multi Age Groups in Mobile Care
One of the main benefits to offering Mobile Care is that it allows you to make your settlement services accessible to a greater number of newcomer families. By bringing your settlementservice(s) to different locations in the community while at the same time providing child care at those locations you can reach a greater number of families and positively impact their settlement experience. Read more
Selecting Space for Mobile Care
Mobile Care is a valuable service for the families in your community. By offering child care in conjunction with settlement services in a variety of neighbourhoods; more newcomer families can benefit from your programs and be supported in their transition to Canadian society.Read More
Choosing Toys and Equipment for Mobile Care
Offering Mobile Care allows you to reach out to newcomer families in the community and provide child care while the parents participate and attend your settlement services. In offering this service you can reach a larger number of newcomer families and assist in their successful transitions to life in Canada. Read More
Inclusion: What Does It Mean?
Inclusion means giving children with special needs and their parents or caregivers the same opportunities to learn, enjoy and participate as other families have.
All children benefit from inclusion. Exposure to children with diverse skills and abilities at a young age provides a foundation for a lifetime of understanding and respecting differences. It promotes awareness of human differences and leads to greater acceptance.Read more
Setting up an Environment for Infant Care
Infants are cared for in a multi-sensory setting that is separate from the older children. A well-designed infant care program provides babies with a safe, comfortable area that encourages movement and play and excites curiosity. There are soft spaces to sit on and crawl; a water source and distinct areas for diapering, playing, sleeping and eating. Space is allocated for essential items, such as cribs, playpens, furniture, toys and storage. Read more
Supporting Children With Special Needs and Their Families- Administrators
Newcomer children and their families have experienced the difficult transition of leaving friends and family behind and are learning to adapt to their new country. Many have left behind their network of support. The special needs of a child may have been a non-issue in their home culture or may have been perceived in a different way. Your team’s support is vital to establishing successful communication. Provide your staff with resources and support to welcome a newcomer child with special needs into your program. Read more
Inclusion in Newcomer Children’s Programs
What is inclusion? Child care inclusion means that all children can attend and benefit from the same child care programs. Inclusion as a core principle in a pan-Canadian child care system would eliminate any exclusion based on [special abilities] and would go beyond non-discrimination – assuring that children with disabilities get the support they need to benefit from child care. Read more
Supporting Children with Special Needs and Their Families- Child Care Worker
Newcomer families have experienced the difficult transition of leaving friends and family and their support network behind. As one of the first points of contact, your program’s support is vital to the success of the child with special needs and his or her family. Read more
Planning Activities
With the right activities and planning, school age programs can offer newcomer children the experience of a lifetime. As you know, newcomer children have been through many changes and challenges in their young lives, and your program can help them create new and lasting memories. Read more
Physical Development in Infants
Infants learn to crawl, cruise and walk in their own time. This cannot be taught, but it can be encouraged. Read more