Wednesday October 27, 2010 has officially been announced as Child Care Worker & Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day and will mark the 10th Anniversary of the celebration. » Continue reading “Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day”

10th Anniversary! Our day of celebration will be even bigger than ever! » Continue reading “Child Care Worker and ECE Appreciation Day, October 27, 2010″

Peter Tabuns, MPP-Toronto Danforth
Shows his support to Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day.

” This year Dr. Charles Pascal, a constituent of Toronto – Danforth will recieve the Annual Award for “Excellence in Advocacy”. If his vision from the report is fully impelment Ontario will dramatically improve the services available to all children from infancy to 12 years of age”
» Continue reading “Peter Tabuns’ Members Statement”

The ninth annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day is being celebrated on October 21, 2009.

This year for the second time an award to recognize the importance of child care advocacy work will be presented. Dr. Charles Pascal, who authored the report “With Our Best Future In Mind” will recieve the “Excellence in Advocacy” award for new early learning and care vision at Toronto City Hall Members Lounge.

» Continue reading “Celebrating Child Care Worker & Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day!”

Last year we started an annual award for “Excellence in Advocacy”, Our first recipient of the award was Pauline Marois started Quebec’s affordable, universal early learning and child care program.
 
This year the CCWAD committee decided to give the “Excellence in Advocacy” award to Dr. Charles Pascal. Ten years ago Pauline Marois made big changes that resulted in real child care system and today has delivered results for Quebec children and families. » Continue reading “Dr. Charles Pascal to Receive Award for “Excellence in Advocacy” as part of Child Care Worker and ECE 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

From the Globe Article:

“I have my leadership style. I am a woman who works in consensus. I am able to delegate responsibility but I am a woman of action”. » Continue reading “Globe and Mail / CBC’s The Current Interview Pauline Marois”

If Ontario wants to cut child poverty and improve student achievement, it should copy Quebec’s $7-a-day child care system, says the architect of the popular program that began in 1998.

Since then, Quebec’s child poverty rates have dropped by 50 per cent, school test scores have gone from among the lowest to the highest in Canada and the percentage of mothers in the workforce in the province is now the highest, said Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois.

To read the full article, click here. » Continue reading “Toronto Star: Copy Quebec daycare, PQ leader says”

October 23, 2008 – Toronto » Continue reading “Pauline Marois, leader of the PQ Honoured as a Champion for Child Care”

From Child Care Watch Newsletter, October 15, 2008.

Pauline Marois, Leader of the PQ was honoured on October 22 by the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care for her decade of commitment to child care. Madame Marois received the inaugural award for ‘Excellence in Advocacy’ from the OCBCC at Ryerson University.

Marois passionately stated that, “developing universal child care, was a major step forward for Quebec society as a whole, for parents as well as for children”.

Tracy Saarikoski, OCBCC, Madame Marois and Dr. Rachel Langford, Ryerson

She said that as a result of her government’s commitment, “the population of Quebec has come to see day care facilities on an equal footing with issues such as health, education, road infrastructure and the environment- indispensible.”

She commented that at the time of implementation the “Quebec provincial government was dealing with political, financial and administrative problems, introducing child care was no small task, but we are now equipped with a universal network across Québec, for that I am extremely proud. “

“Ontario’s politicians like to use fiscal constraint as an excuse not to do the same” said Jenny Robinson, Executive Director of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. “After 10 years, we can say that universal child care has been good for the Quebec economy. It’s also been a success as child poverty has dropped by 50%, and childrens’ test scores are up” added Robinson.

Madame Marois explained that the implementation of universal child care happened in conjunction with other significant programs that support parents, “enhanced maternal and parental leave was needed, as was the introduction of full-time kindergarten classes. These were important pieces of the plan.”

Madame Marois was in Toronto to receive the inaugural ‘Excellence in Advocacy’ Award from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. The evening marked the eighth annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. The day recognizes the incredible contribution and commitment of hard working but undervalued child care staff.