Projects & Publications

Projects

This information was last updated on February 1, 2013 prior to the CCHRSC’s dissolution. For more information, please see the message from the Board


Our projects produced research and developed strategies and tools to meet the needs of the child care workforce and achieve related goals. Click on the titles of our projects for more information.

This project ran from June 2007 to February 2009 and focused on:

The Career Promotions & Recruitment Strategy project ran from February 2006 to January 2007. The project focused on creating a strategy designed to address the sector’s recruitment and retention challenge, specifically:

Building on the need for a consistent approach to child care training as identified in the Working for Change project (2004) this project focused on:

This project ran from August 2004 to August 2006 and led to the creation of the first set of Occupational Standards for Child Care Administrators.

This project updated the findings of the only Canada-wide sector study on ECEC. Building on findings from the 1998 report “Our Child Care Workforce” this project focused on:

In general, employees are entitled to leaves of absence for the following reasons: pregnancy, parental and adoption responsibilities, illness, family emergency, bereavement, to serve on a jury or as a witness, and to vote. Leaves can be with pay or without pay.

Leave policies and practices must comply with the minimum standards required by law, which vary by province and territory.

 

Certification does not expire; there are no renewal requirements.

 

Rory Magill: Cook, Andrew Fleck Child Care Centre (downtown program), Ottawa, Ontario

Lunch at the Andrew Fleck Child Care Centre can feature anything from an Ethiopian feast of chicken stew (doro wat) with flat sourdough bread (injera), to a simpler macaroni and cheese.

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