Access
The current school age care coverage rate in BC.
What is 10%.
Give the full name of the non-income tested program introduced in 2018 that decreases the cost of child care for families.
What is the Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative.
This program provides a wage lift of up to $6 an hour to Early Childhood Educators working at eligible licensed child care facilities.
What is the ECE Wage Enhancement?
This program supports Indigenous children ages 0 to 6 with culturally relevant curriculum and wraparound services at no cost to Indigenous families.
What is Aboriginal Head Start?
This describes what steps child care programs will take to provide inclusive child care to all children including children with support needs.
What is an inclusion policy?
The Access team uses this children's TV show as a reminder for Telehub.
What is Teletubbies
In the Affordable Child Care Benefit (ACCB) program, being employed, attending an educational institution, or seeking employment are all examples of this, one of the key eleigibility criteria for the program.
What is Reason for Care?
Advocates argue that insufficient qualification requirements for this certification is contributing to workforce retention and program quality issues.
What is the ECE Assistant?
This was recently signed as of September 2024 to advance First Nations' jurisdiction in relation to early learning and child care.
What is the Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding?
These programs help families and children access and participate in fully inclusive child care settings by assessing children’s needs, working with child care providers and families to develop strategies for inclusion, and providing support worker hours if needed.
What is Supported Child Development (SCD) and Aboriginal SCD?
8% of school age care spaces on public school grounds are directly operated by: __________.
What is public school boards.
The Government of Canada and the Government of BC signed this Agreement in 2021, which provides BC with about $3.2 billion over five years.
What is the Canada-British Columbia Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement?
Between January and March 2024, the Quality & Workforce policy team completed this many Request for Proposals (RFPs).
What is 6?
Who in the Indigenous Child Care Policy team was previously an early childhood educator?
Andrea and Corine
This team can often be heard from outside the meeting room as they enthusiastically, authentically, and inclusively check-in with each other.
Who is the inclusive child care policy team?
18% of funded spaces come through this funding program.
What is Start Up Grants.
These three funding models are being tested under the $10 a Day ChildCareBC Program.
What are:
1) Revenue Replacement,
2) Eligible Expenses, and
3) the Operating Funding Model?
The Ministry receives an Annual Program Plan from each of these service providers detailing operational services, goals, and programming for the fiscal year for their service area/community.
What are Child Care Resource and Referrals Centres (CCRRs)?
This program supports Métis families' access to early learning and child care services, and also provides training, outreach and referrals for families, educators and other community members.
What are the Métis Early Years Family Connections Navigators?
Released in June 2024, this document describes a future state where child care is a core service available to all children and families.
What is the Inclusive Child Care Strategy?
The province has funded over ______ new child care spaces through it's space creation programs, with over 21,000 of these spaces operational.
What is 39,000.
This organization’s regions are used for CCFRI regional boundaries, (must know what the acronym stands for).
What is the BCSSA: British Columbia School Superintendents Association?
The Canada-B.C. Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CW-ELCC) Action Plan for Fiscal Years 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 included almost $90 million to support the recruitment and retention of ECEs through these two programs.
What are the ECE Education Support Fund (or ECE bursaries) and ECE Specialized Certification Grant?
These organizations, AHSABC and FNHA, support the federally-funded programs AHSOR and AHSUNC. What are the full names of these 4 acronyms?
What is Aboriginal Head Start Association of BC, First Nations Health Authority, Aboriginal Head Start on Reserve, and Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities.
The removal of barriers to accessing inclusive, quality, and affordable child care for families from diverse populations.
What is equity of access OR What is equitable access? (either answer is acceptable)