Kit for Child Care Supervisors Meeting May 2013

We have combined several fact sheets into a kit for child care supervisors.

Included:

Fact Sheet: Child Care Funding Formula Changes

Fact Sheet: Working with your CMSM or DSSAB

Fact Sheet: Advocacy Makes a Difference

Si vous êtes intéressant à participer à notre enquête de la communauté, cliquez ici !

Si vous êtes intéressé à prendre notre enquête pour le cliquez ici de parents !

Parent Survey, click here.

Not a parent?
Click here to do our community survey on child care in Ontario.

Aussi Disponible en francais:

Sondage auprès des parents

Sondage auprès de la communauté

At the Coalition, we are laying the groundwork for a new campaign in support of affordable child care. The future of child care relies on a movement of parents who speak out about the importance of child care to politicians at all levels.

The first step of our campaign is to build a movement of parents who will take action, speak out and organize in their communities. To do this, we are conducting a parent survey as an outreach tool. » Continue reading “Community Outreach: Help us share our parent & community surveys on child care in Ontario”

The OCBCC along with CUPE and the Ryerson School of Early Childhood Studies, brought Sharon Gregson from British Columbia to hear about their amazing campaign that has built so much momentum and excitement for change in BC.

British Columbia and Ontario are a lot alike. We both have a huge shortage of child care, and the child care we do have is too expensive for most families. Like in Ontario, in BC many families are forced to consider unlicensed child care, even though that may not be their first choice for care.

BC’s current provincial government is a right-wing government with no interest in improving child care to ensure it is available, affordable and high quality – for every family who needs it.

In BC, advocates developed a plan for $10 a day child care. While the current government does not support the plan, advocates are gaining huge support, networking and increasing public expectations for what is possible. More than 6000 individuals and organizations have endorsed the plan for child care. That shows a lot of community education, broad-based support and momentum for positive change for child care in BC. » Continue reading “Reflections from our Skills Training & Mobilization Workshop”

New grassroots campaign for affordable, high quality, publicly funded child care in Ontario!

Over the past year, the OCBCC was successful in high-level lobbing and a coordinated campaign with large child care providers to secure stabilization funding. Parent and community pressure enabled us to secure stabilization funding for the sector. But three years of one-time funding will only keep our costly and fragmented child care system from complete failure – it will not result in universal, affordable child care.

Over the next two years, our political reality may change in Ontario. But what will not change is the fundamental need for more affordable child care for Ontario families.

We need a long-term campaign will in turn put pressure on all political parties to support an investment in high quality, affordable, public and not-for-profit system in Ontario for all children from infants to 12 years. » Continue reading “Child Care is the Solution, Not the Problem”

Help us in developing our grassroots campaign by sharing how you obtain information & communicate with others. Just 15 questions – it’ll only take a minute or two!

CUPE Ontario & the OCBCC are co-sponsoring a public forum on early learning and child care.

Today in British Columbia (BC) there is a groundswell of support for affordable child care. It’s part of a community plan for a public system of early learning & child care.

Beginning in 2010 the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC & the Early Childhood Educators of BC started a conversation with thousands of people.

That province-wide dialogue has led to more than 6,000 organizations and individuals (so far) endorsing their plan for an integrated public system of early learning and child care.

YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW THEY DID IT

and HELP TO BUILD MOMENTUM HERE IN ONTARIO. » Continue reading “Public Early Learning & Child Care Forum with Sharon Gregson from BC”

TORONTO – Every year the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and Ontario unions co-sponsor “Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day”.

This year our annual award recognizes Ontario community colleges with on-campus child care programs – notably Centennial, Conestoga, Confederation, George Brown, Humber, Lambton, Sault, Seneca and Sheridan. » Continue reading “Ontario community colleges with on-campus child care recognized for “Excellence in Early Childhood Education””