In Newfoundland
Submitted by: Mary Edwards, Family Home Child Care Association of
Newfoundland and Labrador, Family Child Care Steering Committee
member
In Newfoundland, for members of The Family Child Care Association,
we are currently providing Level 2 of the Family Child Care Training
Program. Our intent was to present Level 3 but we found that providers
hadn't completed all of Level 2 and wanted to complete that first
before progressing to the next level in training.
In Saskatchewan
Submitted by: Olie Lee, Saskatchewan
Early Childhood Association, CCCF Member Council
We’ve almost completed a pilot project of
Level 3 of the Family Child Care Training Program since we came
back from the
train-the-trainer
session held in Ottawa in February 2004. We have one more session
to complete. We have had thirteen people registered for a 21/2 hour
session with about 1/2 hour home work per unit topic.
We have applied to Social Services for a grant to do a session for
Training Trainers and hope to do this in June in Davidson but this
is not for sure. If the grant is received, we can start with about
four different groups in Saskatchewan in the fall.
In Manitoba
Submitted by: Freda Robinson, Red
River College, Faculty
To train family child care providers, Distance Education
at Red River College currently are using the second level in its
entirety
of the Family Child Care Training Program as the main curriculum
with the addition of a supplement that includes Manitoba’s
regulations, under the topics of child guidance and child development.
Manitoba’s new Child Day Care Regulations, effective January
2003, require all licensed providers to take an approved child care
training course. Lee Dunster’s training program with the addition
of the supplement meets Manitoba’s regulations and is an ideal
option. The Early Childhood Education diploma program has accepted
this course (provided the student achieves a minimum grade of C+)
as a credit for Providing Nurturing Care, a first year course in
the diploma program. The students final mark comes from several assignments
included in the Family Child Care Training Program with the addition
of a test that was redeveloped that covers the entire course material.
So far there are approximately 20 students in two separate course
offerings from all over the province. Discussions on key areas are
held through teleconferencing.
In the Yukon
Submitted by: Sandra Beckman, Program Coordinator, ECD, Professional
Studies, Yukon College
Yukon College offers the Family Child Care Training
Program Levels I and II as course electives in its Early Childhood
Development Program.
Students are awarded three credits towards their ECD diploma for
successful completion of each of Levels I and 2. Coordinator Sandra
Beckman explains that, in order to be able to grant credits, they
have added assignments to the program to make the courses “gradable” since
the college requires a grade not simply pass/fail or completion status.
The classes are facilitated on site by a family child care provider
who has an ECD diploma. She also invites a wide range of experts
in as guest lecturers during the fifteen week course.
To date, twenty four students have chosen to take one of the Family
Child Care Training courses as an elective.
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