2009 Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Education Appreciation Day
Mark your calendars for October 21, 2009. This year’s theme will be “Proud to Work in Early Learning and Child Care”.
For a copy of this year’s poster, please click here.
Across Ontario, the early learning and child care sector will be celebrating the ninth annual appreciation day for child care staff. The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and the Canadian Union of Public Employees have sent every mayor in Ontario a request to proclaim October 21 “Child Care Worker and ECE Appreciation Day”.
Order Form for free posters and buttons, please click here.
Fact Sheet: Ideas – What Your Your Municipality Can Do, please click here.
Fact Sheet: Ideas – Waht Your Child Care Centre Can Do, please click here.
Individual certificates for your staff – download the pdf form and you can edit the certificate, page 1 is English, page 2 is French, please click here
Has your municiapality proclaimed the day? For a copy of the letter sent to all Ontario municipalities, please click here.
For a copy of the municipalities who have proclaimed the day as of October 14, please click here
Winner of “Excellence in Advocacy” Award.
We have decided to grant our annual award for “Excellence in Advocacy” to Dr. Charles Pascal, Ontario’s early learning advisor. To read more about the award, please click here.
For more information, please email andrea@childcareontario.org






I would like to recieve a package! I work as a Supervisor in a child care centre and celebrate ECE Appreciation day each year. Always looking for new innovative ideas to spice it up! Thank you.
I would like a full package of the 2009 Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Education Appreciation Day. I’m a Early childhood Educator please send me more information about this event. Thanks so much.
Cindy Montiel
Please forward a full package to me. I am the executive director of a nursery school and daycare program and don;t want to miss this opportunity to celebrate child care workers. Thank you
Tobi Giles
I would love a full package to be sent to me. I am an Early Childhood Educator and I celebrate this day every year!! Thank you !
I would love to order pamphlets and buttons. I am having trouble accessing the order form. I did order last year, we have since moved to 2 gould St smiths Falls, ON k7A 2S5.
Rideau Child Care Centre Inc.
I have ordered buttons and posters to share with my co-workers and class mates at Mohawk college and hope to create awareness of how we should be proud to work and study in early learning and child care field. Further more it will be a highlight during my assignment and presentation in class regarding the the OCBCC organization.
We would love more information…please let us know what we need to do!
I am an assistant supervisor at the Community of Maple Child Care Services, 9350 Keele St., Maple, Ont. L6A 1P4. I woould like to order a full pakage of posters, paphlets, and pins for the 50 employies of our three centres.They all provide excellent quality child care services to our families, and we don’t want to miss this oppertunity to celebrat them. Thank you.
Hello,
I am the director of Centre éducatif Les Petits Tresors with 23 employees. Is any of your documentation (buttons, posters, certificates) available in French?
Thanks,
Nancy Kelly
Bonjour,
I would love to get a complete package as well. I appreciate so much that I can print off the appreciation certificate in french, however my question is the same as Nancy’s can I get em in french ??
Un grand merci,
Claudette
I would love a complete package as well in English…thank you
I agree with Tammy! New ideas are always welcome. Something in addition to the certificates, etc. that could raise awareness for families as well.