The Canadian Child Care Federation is excited to attend and contribute to the 2024 World Forum on Early Child Care and Education. This edition of the World Forum is being held in Vancouver from April 16th-19th. The entire CCCF team will be in attendance, and we look forward to seeing many familiar faces and meeting some new ones.
The World Forum is a global gathering of ECE professionals and advocates from over 50 countries. Their mission lines up well with ours: “to grow a global movement to impact the futures of young children and their families”. The word “movement” is particularly salient, because it came up in the CCCF’s 2023 annual meeting as one that everyone felt was essential for CCCF’s affiliates to focus on as we build a quality Early Learning and Child Care system for Canada..
Early Childhood Educators in Canada are truly part of a movement whose time has come. The CCCF has been working on tools to raise the voices of ECEs within their community to help our affiliates, members and the child care sector continue to advance this movement. This first step of this project began at the end of 2023, when the CCCF and Extremeline Productions produced a series of video interviews with local ECEs in Ottawa. These interviews were filmed at Andrew Fleck Children’s Services in Ottawa where four of their Early Childhood Educators kindly spoke from the heart about the importance of their profession.
Ezra, Layla, Nick and Sandy said what so many of us have been feeling, and left us all emotional and speechless. The entire CCCF team is truly energized by all the possibilities that video messaging offers to our sector and this movement. CCCF staff member Claire, will be presenting these videos on April 15th at the Oh Canada! pre-conference event throughout the day along with many presenters speaking on Canada’s progress in building an ELCC system for Canada – with workforce as its focus. We look forward to further feedback, and more exciting video projects in 2024 involving the whole community.
A special thank you to everyone who has participated in this project so far. We will update this blog post after the event with some of the highlights from this edition.
The Canadian Child Care Federation (CCCF) is Canada’s largest member based child care organization. Along with our cross-Canada affiliates—early childhood educators and practitioners from coast to coast to coast—we are committed to achieving excellence in early learning and child care.
