Frontiers of Innovation
Launched in May 2011,
Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) focuses on the work of a community of more than 400 researchers, practitioners, policymakers, philanthropists, and experts in systems change from across North America.
The goal of FOI is to bring about substantially greater positive impacts for vulnerable young children whose needs (or the needs of their caregivers) by forging cross-sector collaborations that prompt creativity, support experimentation, and learn from experience. Special thanks to Naznin Dhanani, from ELSA Net, BC for sharing this resource with us.
Refugee children experiences
In this short video, refugee children from Syria talk about their experiences leaving their homeland and life in a refugee camp. They explain their current difficulties in adjusting to life as displaced people and express their hopes for the future, with one pondering on the meaning of the word 'refugee' itself.
Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP): A New Way of Working with Your Immigrant Children
Dr. Roma Chumack-Horbatsch, from the School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University, presented at the conference last year. In this video, she explains LAP and how it focuses on the whole child, builds on and extends immigrant children's home experiences, validates and promotes home languages, and helps immigrant children to reach their bilingual potential.
Helping You Meet the Requirements: Serious Occurrences
According to the new CNC requirements, in addition to reporting a serious occurrence to IRCC, you now must also inform CMAS. Find out how you can meet the requirement.
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A new website you need to see!
Caring for Kids New to Canada is a new website that is full of information that will help you provide quality care to immigrant and refugee children! Developed by the Canadian Paediatric Society with experts in newcomer health, you'll learn about how culture influences health and well-being, developmental disability across cultures, post-traumatic stress disorder, injury prevention and much more! Special thanks to
Ann Hutchings for sharing this resource with us.
Site Visits are starting!
Your consultant will be contacting you soon to schedule. This year instead of assessments you will receive a site visit that will include an Implementation Review and a Risk Review. Sites contracted to provide Combined Care will also receive Combined Care Training. To help you prepare for your visit, you'll find details on what to expect here in
"Getting Ready for Your Site Visit"
Child-Centred Program Planning Resources
The Family Resource Facilitation Program (FRFP) website has lots of information and resources to help you with child-centred programming!
Helping You Meet the Requirements: Professional Development
More than the chance to improve or learn new skills, annual Professional Development (PD for short) also happens to be a CNC requirement: all paid full-time CNC staff complete at least five (5) hours of training on topics related to their staff duties. Find out how you can meet the requirement.
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Les documents de GENA sont maintenant disponibles en français !
Pour vous aider à gérer le processus de mise en œuvre de votre organisation,
la liste de contrôle est maintenant disponible en français! Vous trouverez également que le Guide a été mis à jour pour inclure
les ressources de soutiens en français.
CNC Implementation Checklist: Simplify CNC Planning
The
CNC Implementation Checklist is now available to help you manage the implementation process for your organization – it will help you to quickly assess your implementation progress, identify key steps to take, and assign tasks and timelines.
Watch for the French CNC Implementation Checklist to be available soon!
