Ontario

Description: (see attached flyer)

PROGRAM

Opening Remarks: 8:45am

MORNING PANELS:
Panel I: Challenges and opportunities for Canadian childcare
9 a.m-10:45 a.m.

Moderator - Rianne Mahon, CIGI Chair in Social Work, Professor at BSIA, Political Science, Laurier University

Monica Lysack, Professor, Early Childhood Education, Sheridan College - Care and education: Opportunities and pitfalls

Rachel Langford, Director, School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University - Social investment or social justice?

Martha Friendly, Director, Childcare Resource and Research Unit - Market or system? Why kids still are not for profit

Susan Prentice, Professor, Sociology, University of Manitoba - Why childcare is still a women's issue
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Panel 2: Assessing Canadian childcare advocacy: Strategies and choices 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Moderator - Patrizia Albanese, Professor, Sociology, Ryerson University

Brooke Richardson, PhD candidate, Policy Studies, Ryerson University - The state of Canadian childcare advocacy

Jamie Kass, National childcare coordinator, Canadian Union of Postal Workers - Let's rethink childcare: The labour multi-union childcare campaign - 2013-2015

Jane Beach, Childcare researcher - Childcare human resource issues in the broader policy context: Reflections on You Bet We Still Care!

Shani Halfon, Research Officer, CRRU - To whom shall we pass the torch? The next generation of advocates

Lunch-1:00-2:00pm
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AFTERNOON: DIALOGUE TO ACTION

Kitchen Tables: Join a "kitchen table" discussion to share your own experience in the ECEC field-as a front-line ECE, a researcher, a student, an advocate, or an administrator- with regard to key questions generated by the panel discussions. 2:00-4:00pm

Dialogue to action: moving forwards with actions 4:00-5:00pm

Sponsors:
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School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University, Childcare Resource and Resource Unit
New Advocates for Progressive Childcare Policy

A special workshop session on mobilizing for child care.

Join special guest Sharon Gregson and child care advocates at Ryerson University.

Registration is required. Please email info@childcareontario.org to register.

Today in British Columbia (BC) there is a groundswell of support for affordable child care. It's part of a community plan for a public system of early learning & child care.

Beginning in 2010 the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC & the Early Childhood Educators of BC started a conversation with thousands of people.

That province-wide dialogue has led to more than 6,000 organizations and individuals (so far) endorsing their plan for an integrated public system of early learning and child care.

YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW THEY DID IT and HELP TO BUILD MOMENTUM HERE IN ONTARIO.

Guest Speaker: Sharon Gregson - Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC
as well as speakers from CUPE Ontario and the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care

No registration is required & the forum is free.
All are welcome - spread the word!

Register for the Special mobilization skills workshop from 1pm to 4:30pm on November 15, 2012.