Alberta Resource Centre for Quality Enhancement
Creatively inspiring Early Learning and Care professionals to build leadership and capacity, ARCQE is unique in designing support and
resources specific to the needs of the Alberta child care community.
Free Webinar: Managing Allergies this School Season
It’s important for children with Anaphylaxis, and those who care for them, to be aware of how to safely manage allergies. Food Allergy Canada has developed the following resources to help families, teachers and caregivers with back-to-school preparations:
Helping You Meet the Requirements: Supporting Parents
When parents come to you for information and assistance, the support you provide helps families adapt to life here in Canada.
This special feature will help you meet new requirements that specifically require all CNC programs to provide information on the topics of immunization, allergies/nutrition, settlement and community resources.
CNC Logo Available for Public Use
The CNC logo is now available for use exclusively by CIC-funded CNC programs. To request the CNC logo, email a request to
officeadmin@newcomerfamilies.ca. Please include your name, organization and contact information. The CNC logo can only be used on CNC Program items. CNC logo use does not in any way represent CMAS authorization of a document and it's content.
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"
