News & Stories: Presentation

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

Benefits of Amalgamating Child Care Services
Kim Hiscott, Executive Director, Andrew Fleck Child Care Services, Ottawa

How a large childcare agency acts to stabilize services in the region, and the benefits it provides.

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

PEI’s ELCC Workforce Pension Plan
Sonya Hooper, Assistant Deputy Minister Early Years
Jennifer Nangreaves, Executive Director, Early Childhood Development Association Of PEI

An overview of the PEI’s unique pension plan instituted for the early childhood education workforce.

Best Practices in ECE Development: In this series, early childhood officials from various provinces shared promising initiatives aimed at supporting the early childhood education workforce and expanding access to child care.

90-Hour Introduction to ECE Online Course: Training for Untrained Educator
Lindsay Webb, Acting Director, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Educational Services - Anglophone

Early Learning and Development shares how New Brunswick provides a minimum of 90 hours of child development training to staff working in childcare centres who do not hold post-secondary ECE credentials.

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Fellow Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, October 5, 2024

Presented by Dr. Zeenat Janmohamed, Executive Director & Senior Policy Analyst, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at the ECEBC Conference 2024, May 24, 2024

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, at 17th Annual Summer Institute on Early Childhood Development - The Early Years: From Disruption to Recovery and Beyond, June 2, 2021

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; and Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, presented to Canadian Association for Business Economics, September 14, 2021

Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at the Research Roundtable: Care Work in the Recovery Economy, February 2-3 2022

Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto; and Kelly Emergy, at the 19th Annual Summer Institute: Ensuring equity and inclusion in early learning and child care, May 11, 2023

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; and Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at Putting the Public into Early Learning and Child Care, December 1, 2023

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development; Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto; Shelly Mehta, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College, at the 20th Annual Summer Institute: Shaping the ECE Workforce for Canada’s Future, April 26, 2024

Excerpt: "With more than 8,600 spaces already at $10-a-day, our government has made regulated child care in Newfoundland and Labrador more affordable. Budget 2024 supports our efforts to increase capacity and create 6,000 new child care spaces by 2026 through: $27 million for continued implementation of the early childhood educator wage grid; Over $16 million for projects to increase the number of child care spaces; $2.7 million for bursaries and grants for students to become an early childhood educator; Launch of the Early Learning Gateway this spring, which will connect families seeking child care with service operators who have available space."