Separation Anxiety Online Course Now Available
The Separation Anxiety and Culture Shock online workshop will help you understand separation anxiety in newcomer families and the impact of culture shock on the separation process. The course offers strategies to help you manage separations, as well as parent expectations. From creating a sample separation plan to navigating your way through a gradual separation scenario, you will put these strategies into practice. By the end of this workshop, you should feel confident in your ability to smoothly and professionally support newcomer children and parents through the separation process.
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A New Online Course is Now Available!
This online workshop gives you knowledge and tools you can use to collaborate with and gain the trust of the families of the children in your care. The course covers both the theory and practice behind topics that include family and child-centred care, diversity and bias, cross cultural child-rearing practices and communication, and building trusting relationships.
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Care for Newcomer Children (CNC) Information Now Available!
The Care for Newcomer Children Requirements (CNCR) are available here in
French and
English.
The CNC Guide is a brand new kind of tool that provides you with everything you need to understand the new requirements, what’s different, and what it means to you and your organization. To help, you can also review the CNC Orientation for Administrators or CNC Orientation for Caregivers from this years conference.
CNC Print Resources
CNC Guide April 2013
2012 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS: Ontario Professional Development Conference for LINC Childminders
At the 2012 Conference, we asked attendees to get comfortable with change and embrace it as a sign of good things to come.
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Introducing CNC…
As we begin the transition into CNC, we want to make sure that you are kept well informed and up-to-date as well.
Here you will find a copy of the CNC Orientation that was delivered at the conference with speaker notes included to help you get a better understanding of all that was discussed.
We look forward to working with you to ensure the successful implementation of CNC and, as always, are ready to support you and your organization. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your CMAS consultant.
CNC Program Planning Sheet
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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.
