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Helping children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

You know about the five senses—sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell—but you may not be aware that most of us have two additional sensory systems that help us to control and integrate the information we gather. Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) find it difficult to process and act on information received through these senses. Read more...

Leaping the Learning Curve: Five HR Practices that Improve Child Care Administration

Your role as administrator is one of great responsibility—especially as it involves a program that cares for children. However, the human resource function, which can be a full time career in other industries, is usually just a part of the child care administrator’s workload. Finding the time to get up to speed, not to mention locate child care specific resources, on all the HR aspects of administration can be near impossible. Read More

Workshops In Your Community

There are no more workshops scheduled this contract year. Please check back again in May.

Care For Newcomer Children (CNC): Highlights

Care for Newcomer Children (CNC) is a new childcare support service that enables eligible parents to attend CIC-funded settlement services, while their children receive care at the same site.

CNC, will be implemented in April 2013 and will replace LINC Childminding and Occasional Child Care.

Development of the CNC model was carried out from July 2009 through March 2010 in consultation with representatives of stakeholder groups from across the country and with the guidance of experts in the early childhood field. In 2011/12, elements of the new CNC model were piloted at two Service Providing Organizations (SPOs), with a third-party assessment of the pilot model undertaken in January, 2012.

The CNC model provides flexibility and choice. Rather than providing child care support for individual CIC-funded services, SPOs will be able to support all adult services within a single child care program. This program model reduces barriers, increases efficiency and service uptake, and allows SPOs to care for more children and better meet the needs of the newcomer families they serve.

SPOs will choose the type of care that will best complement CIC-funded settlement service delivery. Final decisions on services and the type of care offered are subject to CIC approval.

Types of Care

SPOs currently offering licensed care can continue to do so.

Care For Newcomer Children (CNC): Questions and Answers

1. Why do we need a new model of care?

CIC saw a need for a change in the child care supports to assist SPOs in offering care to parents. During the consultation for a new child care model SPOs expressed their ideas from which the CNC program grew. The CNC model provides more flexibility and choice. Rather than providing child care support for individual CIC-funded services, you are able to support all CIC-funded adult services within a single child care program. This is an opportunity to review and revise outdated practices and become more efficient in providing and managing the care of children.

In general, the CNC program model allows you to care for more children and better meet the needs of the newcomer families you serve.

2. What requirements will we need to follow?

A new set of requirements have been developed that will replace the National LINC Childminding Requirements and the Occasional Child Care Requirements. The information in the Highlights and Bulletin reflect the information found in the requirements. The full requirements will be available at the end of the year.

3. Is Long Term care really just childminding?

Long Term care is one of the three types of care in the CNC model.

The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bond: Focus on Children in Poverty

Play is essential to the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being of children beginning in early childhood. It is a natural tool for children to develop resiliency as they learn to cooperate, overcome challenges, and negotiate with others. Play also allows children to be creative. Read More

Child Care Human Resources Sector Council has an HR Toolkit

Administering a program for newcomer children?  Looking for information and resources to help you with HR?  Administrators working in child care often lack time and capacity to effectively manage their human resources. The CCHRSC's HR Toolkit is an online resource that contains a wealth of HR information, best practices, tools, policies, procedures and templates that can be downloaded and tailored to meet the individual requirements of administrators working in a variety of Early Childhood Education and Care settings.

Celebrate multiculturalism with a “Kids Around the World” bulletin board

Canadian Multiculturalism Day is an opportunity to celebrate our diversity! Here’s a fun activity idea that can also personalize and bring culture into your space.

New French Resources Now Available

As part of the ongoing mission to make translated documents available and better support French programs, you’ll find that we’ve added insert number newly translated resources to the website! Read More

1 in 100: Bringing Epilepsy Out of the Shadows

Epilepsy is the second most common neurological disorder, but many people don't know how to react to seizures or administer first aid. Caregivers play a central role in the safety, acceptance and self-development of the child who has seizures in the classroom. In this workshop, Jodi Maruncic and Leah Sultan-Khan, from Epilepsy Toronto explain about cultural myths and misconceptions, seizure types and their effects on the brain, how seizures affect children at different stages of development, and how to respond efficiently and effectively.