Once again, the YMCA CCRR will be partnering with a variety of community committees and agencies to commemorate Child Care Month. We look forward to seeing many of you at your community celebration. Thank you for your dedication to children and families and for choosing child care as your vocation.

Download the Burnaby/New Westminster Invitation (pdf, 264kb)
Download the Tri-Cities “Save the Date” flyer (pdf, 60kb)

Please note the following adjustments in our hours of operation:

Both offices will be closed April 1st, April 2nd & April 5th for Easter, and Saturday May 22nd & May 24th for Victoria Day.

Burnaby/New Westminster CCRR will be closed Tuesday, March 23rd to facilitate a staff training event.

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

Workshop registration for Spring 2010 will begin Saturday March 13th at 9:00 am. Download a training schedule and registration form now!

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 Project) website at http://ecdportal.help.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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