Resources
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
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
Multilingual Parent Resources Available: Shaken Baby Syndrome
The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation has recently expanded its Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention initiative to include "Comforting Cards" in 21 languages.
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.
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. View the workshop
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. Read More
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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