Please note the CCRR offices will not be open Saturdays during the months of July & August. We will continue to offer regular evening openings.

Saturday hours will resume the week of September 11th.

If you have any questions, please contact our Tri-Cities office at 604-931-3400, extension 0, or our Burnaby/New Westminster Office at 604-294-1109.

Download a calendar now to see our complete hours of operation.

Come and join with fellow Family Child Care providers, children and CCRR staff, for fun and learning in the great outdoors.

Explore the world of insects, spiders and other creepy-crawlies. Join a bug hunt, follow a snail and count spider legs. Share in a fun, hands-on introduction to invertebrates.

This outdoor fun is facilitated by Burnaby Parks and Recreation with an interpreter from Metro Vancouver Regional Parks.

As in previous years, we will be automatically renewing your membership September 2010 unless you notify us otherwise prior to September 15th, 2010.

In August we will be forwarding all existing CCRR members membership renewal information. This package will include a “provider profile,” which will outline the facility information currently on our referral database. Please take a moment to review the information for accuracy, and inform us of any changes. If you wish to discontinue your membership please advise us and we will remove you from our membership registry.

We’re looking forward to working with you in the coming year and we hope you take advantage of all the services the CCRR has to offer.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at 604-931-3400.

Would you like to receive your newsletters more quickly? Would you like to receive child care information and updates in a more timely fashion? If so, subscribe to newsletters & updates by email by contacting Wendy Harvey.

Did you know that the YMCA CCRR has publicly accessible computers at both our Burnaby/New Westminster office, as well as our Tri-Cities office? Both computers have internet capability and are available to parents and child care providers. Please call your local CCRR to book a time to use either of these workstations. The workstation located at our Tri-Cities office also serves as the Community Mapping Portal for the Tri-Cities community. To find out more about Community Mapping please visit the H.E.L.P. (Human Early Learning Partnership) website at www.earlylearning.ubc.ca.

The YMCA Child Care Resource and Referral in partnership with S.U.C.C.E.S.S. (United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society) in pleased to announce that the CCRR Multicultural Awareness Project has been completed and the final report is available to download from our website.

This project was made possible through funding from the Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Children and Family Development through its Child Care in Multicultural and Aboriginal Communities Fund of March 2005.

The project was funded to: inform local child care/early childhood development planning from a multicultural perspective; to promote awareness of child care services and resources within the local multicultural community; and to enhance local child care provider’s ability to provide culturally sensitive services.

Download a copy of the report now! (pdf, 3.6 mb)

One outcome of this project was the development of four Cultural Information Sheets.

Download Chinese Information Sheet (pdf, 1 mb)
Download Korean Information Sheet (pdf, 108kb)
Download Punjabi Information Sheet (pdf, 140kb)
Download Farsi Information Sheet (pdf, 116kb)

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