Pan-Canadian

Canadian Child Care Federation
Scope: National
Type: Professional
Note: A national non-profit organization that is committed to achieving excellence in early learning and child care. CCCF's membership includes over 21 provincial and territorial affiliate organizations and 11,500 individual members.

Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
Scope: National
Type: Union
Note: CUPE is Canada's largest union with over half a million members, 12 divisions and 2,200 local unions. It is the union with the largest child care worker membership outside of Québec

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
Scope: National
Type: Advocacy
Note: CCAAC promotes publicly funded, universally accessible child care through public education, political action and advocacy projects. CCAAC is a non-profit, membership-based and regionally representative organization

Parent Voices
Scope: National
Type: Advocacy
Note: Parent Voices works with parents to make the case for quality, affordable and accessible child care.

National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE)
Scope: National
Type: Union
Note: The second largest union in Canada. Most of its 325,000 members work to deliver public services in their home provinces

Rural Voices
Scope: National
Type: Advocacy
Note: Rural Voices is community capacity building network that increases the participation of rural, remote, and northern residents in the development of child care programs and social policy.

SpeciaLink
Scope: National
Type: Resource and research - special needs
Note: Provides personalized responses to specific questions, referrals to other organizations, and sources of help, information and technical assistance to young children who have special needs and their families.