Early Childcare Education

(Website) Formerly the Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres, now Children's Healthcare Canada is a recognized leader and advocate for advancing the improvement of healthcare for Canada's children and youth.

(Website) In order to protect and enhance our children, to promote their safety and their healthy growth and development, we are committed to providing Canadians with the very best in early learning and child care knowledge and best practices. Our tools are research and knowledge dissemination, the creation and nurturing of active networks.

(Website) The Childcare Resource and Research Unit is an early childhood education and child care (ECEC) policy research institute with a mandate to further ECEC policy and programs in Canada.

(Website) This organization is dedicated to advocating for a publicly funded, inclusive, quality, non-profit child care system. Our organization is non-profit, membership-based and regionally representative.

(Website) The Unit is an early childhood education and child care (ECEC) policy research institute with a mandate to further ECEC policy and programs in Canada.

(Website) With over 10,000 Canadian child daycare provider listings, Daycare Canada Online is not only the largest national childcare directory

(Website) The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.

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(PDF File) A discussion paper for Canada’s 4th national child care policy conference, ChildCare2020

(PDF File) Implementing rights in early childhood from the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC) and the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC)

(PDF File) This is a policy document of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada. It is both a detailed blueprint outlining the funding and policy components essential to developing an accessible, effective and accountable child care system and a yardstick against which public policy and progress can be measured.

(PDF File) An Addendum to the Occupational Standards for Early Childhood Educators from Child Care Human Resources Sector Council

(PDF File) An appropriate curriculum for young children is one that includes the focus on supporting children’s in-born intellectual dispositions, their natural inclinations.

(PDF File) An Addendum to the Occupational Standards for Early Childhood Educators from Child Care Human Resources Sector Council