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.

Supporting Employers in the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector (2009)

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

Career Promotions & Recruitment Strategy (2007)

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:

A Training Strategy for the ECEC Sector in Canada (2007)

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:

Occupational Standards For Child Care Administrators (2006)

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.

Working for Change: Canada's Child Care Workforce (2004)

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:

Requirements to work in regulated group child care - Nova Scotia

 

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

Requirements to work in regulated family child care - Nova Scotia

 

Providers must be at least 18 years old, must complete the Canadian Child Care Federation Family Home Day Care Training (Level One), hold current first aid and infant CPR certificates, provide criminal reference and child abuse registry checks, and participate in ongoing professional development training.

Career Links & Workforce Data

CCHRSC has compiled a listing of websites that provide information (labour market data and statistics) on careers in early childhood education and care. The links are listed below by province/territory and indicate the NOC code (read more about NOC).

Karen Wright

Karen Wright: Supported Child Care Worker, North End Day Care, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Coordinator, Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ Summer Camp

Karen Wright credits working in child care with “stopping my aging process.”

Certification process - Quebec

 

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