Resources

High-Quality Child Care Services
A Stimulating and Caring Environment for Children

The Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development's Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development recently published online a key message on high-quality child care.
To receive this or other key messages free of charge, please contact Lucie Beaupré.
To learn more about high-quality child care, consult our synthesis and experts texts available on the CEECD Encyclopedia website: www.child-encyclopedia.com.

New publications from the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre (ECLKC)

The new ECLKC Bulletin unravels the nature and determinants of temperament and its role in children's development.
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This first paper of a new series of documents untitled Learning Starts Early! highlights the importance of attachment for infants to grow into emotionally and psychologically healthy children and adults:

You can receive these publications free of charge by writing to childhoodlearning@ccl-cca.ca.

Coming Soon- A new resource on numeracy!

The everyday world for a young child is full of opportunities to engage with number and quantity. From the first few days of life, infants pay special attention to number in their environments. Babies’ everyday experiences with quantity provide the foundation for more advanced math concepts that develop throughout early childhood and beyond. As babies grow into toddlers, their knowledge of counting and number has the potential to improve very quickly. Preschoolers are capable of thinking about arithmetic and can solve math problems in meaningful ways.

Do you need some inspiration and resources on how to incorporate numeracy into your program in a more meaningful way? CCCF in partnership with the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network are developing a new resource all about numeracy. Stay tuned for more information on this innovative resource.

Self-reflection is one of the many avenues that you can use to foster your personal growth as a child care practitioner… thinking about your current practice and reflecting on whether there are things you would like to change

View the Self-Assessment Checklist and order the full National Statement on Quality Early Learning and Child Care

The National Statement is a key resource for students, practitioners, policy makers and parents, this book provides a vision of quality child care that applies to all service delivery models. With the expertise of Gillian Doherty as author CCCF has developed an updated version of the original, first published in 1991. $15

The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is an innovative and multi-sectoral collaboration of medical, environmental, public health and child care organizations, formed in 2001. CPCHE is pleased to note that the Canadian Paediatric Society will soon become a CPCHE partner with an appointed CPS representative from the Environmental Health Section.