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.
Mentoring for Personal and Professional Growth with Glory Ressler
Here is the first of four workshops from the 2011 Professional Development Conference for LINC Childminders. Mentoring is a powerful vehicle for personal and professional growth. Glory Ressler, from Mentoring Pairs for Child Care project, facilitates a fun and informative exploration of what mentoring is, and ways to apply mentoring.
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The Immunization Schedule for Ontario has Changed!
Did you know that children in Ontario no longer need an MMR at 18 months? To avoid confusion, pass along this new schedule to anyone who maintains files and works directly with families.
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Six Reasons to Love Your Job!
If you work with immigrant children,
1) You are leading the way in a growing professional field!
Canada welcomes 250,000 immigrants each year, including over 8,000 children and youth, speaking over 80 different languages. You work with these families each and every day. When there is a crisis in another part of the world, and refugee families arrive here in Canada, for many of them, you are their first contact!
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Free Multilingual Resources!
The Best Start Resource Centre offers multilingual resources for parents in their home language. Languages available include: Arabic, Filipino, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Tamil and Urdu. The resource “You and your baby…” is also available in two Aboriginal languages.
You can download the resources online at:
https://resources.beststart.org/product-category/resources/languages-other-than-english-and-french/
Programs can also order print versions of these resources in languages other than English and French. The Best Start Resource Centre will consider special requests from registered charitable organizations who may have funding limitations.
Healthy Smiles, Healthy Kids!
Good oral health is important to childrens’ overall health. Yet, for some, regular dental care may not be affordable. Healthy Smiles Ontario is a program for children 17 and under who do not have access to any form of dental coverage. If eligible, children will get regular dental services at no cost.
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Play it Fair! Human Rights Education Toolkit for Children
Equitas is an International Centre for Human Rights Education, and they’ve developed a toolkit that helps promote human rights, non discrimination and peaceful conflict resolution within non-formal education programs for children. By encouraging acceptance of differences, the Play It Fair! Program is equipping children and youth to work together to solve conflicts and participate in the diverse communities in which they live.
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Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency Self-Assessment Checklist
The mission of the National Centre for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University Centre for Child and Human Development is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
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IT’S TIME TO LET PARENTS KNOW ABOUT SEPTEMBER 2012 KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION!
Parents can visit their local school and bring proof of the child’s age, address, immunization, and immigrations status. To help parents learn how they can help their child’s brain and body grow and thrive before and during their early years of school, share the resource
Learning to Play and Playing to Learn
Creating a “climate of delight” while children learn: Dr. Rachel Langford
Play is important to learning. Research tells us again and again that when children play, exploring and experimenting with material, they learn through those experiences. Dr. Rachel Langford offers some strategies to create a "climate of delight" while children learn.
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