Planning for the Support of a Child with Special Needs
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Creating a Welcoming Program for Newcomer Children
After the trauma of fleeing their home country, refugee families need safe and stable environments. To create this kind of “safe haven”, programs can develop a space where children can hear English but are not pushed to use it, and where they can observe activities and are encouraged to join in but are not required to.
Learn about the many other things you can do to reduce stress and help ease this difficult transition for families.
Making Room for Diversity in Your Program: Q&A with Valerie Rhomberg
When you walk into a program that cares for newcomer children, it is common to see multiple cultures and languages represented in the physical child care environment, as well as through the people in it: the staff, the children and their families. Multiculturalism is supported and embraced in countless ways.
But what about diversity? Isn’t it just another word for multiculturalism?
Not necessarily, according to Valerie Rhomberg, Manager of Academic Programs at Mothercraft College and co-author of "The Affective Curriculum: Teaching the Anti-bias Approach to Young Children".
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Multilingual Tipsheets
The Illinois Early Learning Project website is a source of information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children. Here you will find 171 tipsheets that are available in different languages.
Spread the word… Culture Days Across Canada
On September 28th, 29th and 30th, communities across Canada will put local arts and culture on display… and everyone is invited to take part! The third annual Culture Days is a coast-to-coast movement that features thousands of free, hands-on, interactive activities with artists, historians, architects and other creative forces.
Culture days are a great opportunity for families to celebrate culture and creativity in the community. Visit
www.culturedays.ca to find out what events are happening near you and spread the word!
Make, Experiment, and Explore With Kids
Creative Experiments for Kids: Tinkerlab is an award-winning site that shares kid-friendly projects and ideas that exist at the intersection of art and science.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
