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:

ECEC sector staff are so busy that employee recognition is often put on the back burner. There are some compelling reasons to focus attention on employee recognition.

Donna Huyber, Program Supervisor
Lakeview Children’s Centre
Langruth, Manitoba

Donna Huyber is very good at her job—so good that she recently received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Education.

It’s a job she loves, and the best part is being with the children every day. She plans to stay at Lakeview until she retires.

 

All staff working with children in a licensed child care facility must be classified. There are four levels of Classification:

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