These
web site links have been chosen to assist you in your
daily practice. Many of these links and more are available
in the Family Child Care Training Levels 1-3.
Fun Sites for Kids
Games Kids Play
Provides an extensive listing of games, verses for
jump-rope rhymes and old skipping songs and chants.
www.gameskidsplay.net
Kididdles
Good source for songs and fingerplays.
www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html
Children’s
Health and Safety
Canadian Institute of Child Health
This bilingual site provides child health information
with a main focus to educatecaregivers and policymakers,
and to advocate for legislation and policies
that improve child health.
www.cich.ca
Canadian
Pediatric Society – 0 to teen years
Provides child health information from Canada’s
pediatric experts. Topics include children’s
health, development, nutrition, and safety.
www.caringforkids.cps.ca
Car Safety for Children (0-12 years)
Transport Canada’s Child Safety web site provides
information on a variety of topics such as School
Bus Safety, and Safe Travel in a Booster Seat.
www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/childsafe/cindex_e.htm
Health Canada
This bilingual site promotes the nutritional health
and well being of Canadians. There is a resource
section that is very helpful covering topics such
as healthy eating, healthy children, facts and
trends, dietary reference intake and many more.
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/nutrition/pdf/FocusChildE.pdf
Public Health Agency of Canada – Canadian
Health Network
Provides a consumer health information service
and library of web-based documents supporting
children’s
health.
www.canadian-health-network.ca
Health Canada – Food
and Nutrition
Provides food and nutritional information including
Canada’s Food Guide, nutrition labeling,
and many other resources to support health and
well being.
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/lifestyles/food_nutr.html
“Child
Abuse. Home Child Care: A Caregiver’s
Guide.” Home
Child Care Providers Association of Ontario, 1994
This document was written by Lee Dunster.
www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/onhccpg/00000938.htm
Caring for the Caregiver
Canadian
Women’s Health Network
Provides a wealth of information on women’s
health and well being. A database of health topics,
links, a monthly bulletin, and women’s health
initiatives are just a few resources included on
this site.
www.cwhn.ca
Centres
of Excellence for Women’s Health
This bilingual site provides publications on a variety
of women’s health issues, which can be viewed,
or downloaded. It also provides a list of supporting
women’s health organizations with their links.
www.cewh-cesf.ca
Inclusion
Circle of Inclusion (0-8 years)
Provides early childhood service providers and families
of young children with information about the effective
practices of inclusive educational programs.
www.circleofinclusion.org
Specialink: The National Centre for Child Care Inclusion
Provides parents and caregivers with the best inclusive
practices of Canadian Child Care. The site provides
many resources including a research helpline, personalized
responses to specific questions, referrals to other
organizations and many sources of help and information.
www.specialinkcanada.org
Child Development
Child and Family Canada
This site is very easy to navigate and provides a
virtual library of articles on topics such as parenting,
nutrition, child development, family life and many
others.
www.cfc-efc.ca
This address will take you to the virtual library:
www.cfc-efc.ca/search/search_en.html
library documents listed by subject
Early
Childhood Development Guide and Activities (Infants & Toddlers)
Provides a wealth of recommended activities based
on four areas of development, social/emotional, language,
cognitive and physical, for infants and toddlers.
www.enfagrow.com
Growing Healthy Canadians: A Guide for Positive
Child Development
Focuses on the factors that promote the healthy development
of all children and youth.
www.growinghealthykids.com
You Bet I Care! Caring and Learning Environments:
Quality in Regulated Family Child Care Across Canada
A research paper written by Gillian Doherty.
www.dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/RH34-10-3-2000E-1.pdf
Getting Connected to your Child Care Community
Caregiver to Caregiver a Handbook on Developing
Family Day Care Provider Groups
This handbook was written by Lee Dunster and includes
the following:
• What Can a Caregiver Group Do For You?
• Getting Started
• Encouraging Active Participation
• Good Communication
www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/unknown/tied3/00000753.htm
Introduction
www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/cccf/book/00001299.htm
Full document
The
Ontario Network of Home Child Care Provider Groups
(ONET) Provides home-based child care
providers and caregiver groups with support,
information, resource
services and a provincial voice for home child care.
www.geocities.com/ottawachildcare/onet/
Other Provincial Family Child Care Associations:
Home
Child Care Association of Ontario
www.hccao.com
Western
Canada Family Child Care Association of B.C.
http://www.wcfcca.ca/
Alberta Association Family Day Home Services
www.cfc-efc.ca/aafdhs/index.html
The Saskatchewan Early Childhood Association
www3.sk.sympatico.ca/saskcare/index.html
Manitoba Child Care Association
www.mccahouse.org/index.htm
Yukon Child Care Association
www.cfc-efc.ca/ycca/
Canadian
Child Care Federation
Promotes the quality of child care services for Canadian
children and families with a specific focus on policy
and research. Provides an abundance of resources
including publications which can easily be viewed
and downloaded, resource sheets for child care providers
in their daily practice, a quarterly magazine that
is available on line, educational toys for children,
and many other resources.
Resource Sheets from the Canadian Child Care Federation:
www.cccf-fcsge.ca/publications/resourcesheets_en.html
Bilingual
National
Network for Child Care
Provides over 1000 publications and resources related
to child care. Newsletters are published four times
a year for family child care providers and other
child care professionals.
www.nncc.org
National Association for Family Child Care (U.S.)
Provides a voice for the profession of family child
care at the national level as an advocate on issues
of public policy in the United States. It represents
over one million family child care providers in
the United States, Canada, and Japan. They publish
a quarterly newsletter.
www.nafcc.org
Challenging Behaviour
“Interventions for Children with Challenging
Behaviours & Special Needs.” Interaction.
Canadian Child Care Federation, Winter 1997
An articled published in the Canadian Child Care
Federations quarterly magazine.
www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/cccf/00020_en.htm
Other Resources
Red Leaf Press
Exceptional Resources for Early Childhood Educators
This site has a section of resources for Family Child
Care and information on how to order your own personal
copy.
www.redleafpress.org/bookstore/category.asp?category=Training
- Family+Child+Care
Government
of Canada – Children’s Page
This site is loaded with excellent resources including
web sites for kids, and information under the topics
education, health, parents and caregivers, and
safety.
www.canada.gc.ca/cdns/children_e.html
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