News

Celebrating “Care for Newcomer Children” (CNC)

Join us at this year’s conference featuring dynamic guest speakers and interactive workshops. Gain insights and practical ideas for you and your program! With a focus on managing change, multicultural activity ideas and CNC orientation, this year’s conference will provide resources and information to share with administrators and colleagues. Read More

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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!

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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. Read More

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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. Read more...

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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. Read More

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Workshops In Your Community

There are no more workshops scheduled this contract year. Please check back again in May.

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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. Read More

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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.

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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.

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New French Resources Now Available

As part of the ongoing mission to make translated documents available and better support French programs, you’ll find that we’ve added insert number newly translated resources to the website! Read More