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Download the Plan: Providing Healthy Sustainable Child Care Environments

Download the Plan: Providing Healthy Sustainable Child Care Environments

Canada has an unprecedented opportunity to ensure that child care settings support optimal and equitable child health and well-being. So we’ve created: Healthy and Sustainable Child Care and Early Learning EnvironmentsA Vision for Canada.

Our sector and child care and early learning stakeholders have created a vision to ensure that all children in Canada have the opportunity to learn, play, grow and thrive in child care settings that are:

• Healthy, with health defined broadly to include the full array of physical, mental, emotional, social, and ecological dimensions of human well-being; and 

• Sustainable, climate-resilient, and respectful of the land, with design features and day-to-day practices that conserve resources, reduce waste, minimize carbon emissions and other pollutants, and support children’s connections with the natural world.

Information resources are increasingly available, such as the newly-updated CPCHE/CCCF online child care resource and checklistHealthy Environments for Learning Day campaign for healthy and sustainable child care environments. The results of the recent national survey of child care professionals. 

All children have a right to healthy learning environments

Download the Plan: Providing Healthy Sustainable Child Care Environments


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Anyone working in licensed child care has to apply for certification. You will find certification information for your province or territory on our child care certification page.

With your resume and cover letter ready (we’ll provide guides for this soon), contact child care centres and introduce yourself! You can call, email, or even message them on social media. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t get a reply. Try again a few days later to give them your resume in person. Remember that due to safety reasons you need to call first. Tell them you live in their area, and that you’re looking for a position.

On our provincial and territorial map we link to child care associations in your area. Follow the link to your association and join today. The associations provide valuable information to anyone starting out in their career. Even experienced ECEs can benefit. You’ll also enjoy valuable member benefits like discounts, meet other ECEs, and become a part of the child care movement in Canada.


If you join your provincial or territorial affiliate, you’re automatically also a member of the CCCF.

All licensed and regulated quality child care programs in Canada require these for the safety and security of children and families.

If you’re just starting out:

  1. Get certified!
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  3. Write your resume and begin your job search. We’ll provide tips on this soon. 
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Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) are incredible professionals that have rewarding, important and demanding careers. They work with young children (and their families), ages 0-12, nurturing and educating them, observing and planning for their growth and development while ensuring that they are healthy. They create interactive and dynamic learning environments where children develop social skills, develop cognitive skills and foster lifelong learning. ECEs work in child care centres, classrooms, home child cares, preschool, and parent drop-in programs. You do not need a teaching degree to be an ECE, but you do need your ECE diploma.

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