Aaniin, Shé:kon, Tawnshi, Miyotôtâkewin, ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Biindigen and Welcome!
Appreciation Day 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 is the 23rd annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. This day recognizes the commitment, skills and hard work of Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) and staff who work with young children. Each year, the day is proclaimed by the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), municipalities and school boards across Ontario, and is marked by hundreds of child care centres, unions, and allies.
This year’s Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day theme is WORTH MORE! This Appreciation Day will be important as we continue to navigate the implementation of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system and push for it to include decent work and pay for ECEs and child care workers. They deserve decent work and pay.
To fulfil the promise of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system we need to ensure high quality spaces for every family who needs it. We have seen how affordable child care is life-changing for many families, but we need to make that possible for all. To make that vision a reality we need to expand access to child care by building new programs – but most importantly we must ensure that we retain, re-attract and recruit ECEs and child care workers with decent work and fulfilling careers to lead these vital, educational programs.
Thanks to generous sponsors, including the AECEO, AEFO, CUPE Ontario, ETFO, OECTA, OPSEU, OSSTF, OFL, Society of United Professionals and Unifor, we can draw attention to the value of ECEs and child care workers/providers in our communities October 17th.
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– To order your bilingual appreciate day posters and buttons, please fill out this form. Please place your order early to ensure on-time delivery. The order deadline is October 3, 2023.
Visit Appreciation Day – The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (childcareontario.org)
Back to School!
The beautiful thing about learning is no one can take it away from you!
B.B. King
TO ALL FIRST NATION EARLY LEARNING PROGRAMS ON RESERVE
We will be posting videos asking you to video yourself/educators/families/children (if you have permission) and send them to us to share on our website!!
Watch for a call-out on topics for videos from your centre to submit!!
Regional Network Information
Regional Networks are comprised of supervisors, coordinators and educators of First Nation Early Learning Programs located in each of the 4 regions of the province. The establishment and sustainability of these networks was identified as a priority by First Nations. The networks support the delivery of high quality, culturally appropriate programs and services. The benefits of regional networks include information sharing, knowledge exchange, skills development, collaborative problem solving and solution-finding for common issues.
The 4 regional network pages include maps and directories for licensed child care and child and family programs.
First Nation Early Learning Regional Program Map
