Please note—the offices of the YMCA CCRR will be closed on Saturdays during July & August. Regular hours of operation will resume in September. Please see the calendar to view our hours of operation

See our events calendar for details.

In order to provide the highest quality service, the CCRR is conducting a program evaluation. This survey is an integral part of a comprehensive evaluation process, and as such, we value your input and hope you will be as candid as possible.

The results of this survey will help us monitor our current activities and plan for future development. Please note, the CCRR will not keep data on individual child care provider responses.

Please download a copy of the survey (pdf, 116k) now link to survey and return to us via email to Wendy Harvey at vanymca.org or mail to our Tri-Cities office at 1130C Austin Avenue, Coquitlam, V3K 3P5. Thank you!

June 10th-10:00-11:30 am or June 24th-10:00-11:30 am

Snacks, story time and a simple art activity. Please register at least 2 days prior by contacting our Burnaby/New Westminster office at 604-294-1109, extension 0.

The Early Learning Conference Committee of Tri-Cities is planning a conference for parents, child care providers, kindergarten teachers, and early childhood development practitioners on August 23, 2008 at Roy Stibbs Elementary School in Coquitlam. We envision a day that will honour and celebrate our work, while providing an opportunity to increase knowledge and awareness through networking and mutual learning.

Download a conference brochure and registration form (pdf, 350k)

All Licensed Family Child Care Operators, who are not E.C.E. qualified, are required to be Responsible Adults (Section 29). The new Child Care Licensing Regulation requires all Responsible Adults to have 20 hours of training in the areas of child development, guidance, health and safety, or nutrition by November 8, 2008. If you are a Family Child Care Operator and you do not have 20 hours of documented coursework, you should start accumulating training hours right away. Please contact your Licensing Officer for further information regarding any new requirements of the Child Care Licensing Regulation.

To contact a Licensing Officer please call: Tri-Cities: 604-949-7700; Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows: 604-476-7000; Burnaby/New Westminster: 604-918-7683.

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 at vanymca.org.

Did you know that the YMCA CCRR has publicly accessible computers at both our Burnaby/New Westminster office and 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) is 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, 108k)
Download Punjabi Information Sheet (pdf, 140k)
Download Farsi Information Sheet (pdf, 116k)

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