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Ontario’s Childcare Industry

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FEATURE.STORY. . . . . . . . 8Preventing.Serious.Occurrences

COVER.STORY . . . . . . . . .10Scientist.Fosters.Love.of.Learning.at.Peekaboo

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INSIDE THIS ISSUEboard.of.Directors

Kim.YeamanCo-President

Simcoe County

Wendy.MarshallCo-President

Bolton–Palgrave

Karen.EilersenTreasurer ~ Barrie

Greg.HumphreysPeel Region

Holton.HunterToronto

Erla.McCaigWaterloo–Halton

Mila.KotovNepean

Carol.SiderisOrangeville

Kerri.WhitakerMarkam

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by:.Wendy.Marshall.&.Kim.Yeaman.

ADCO.MEMbERS.ARE.COMMUNITY.LEADERS

irst of all, thank you to ev-eryone who participated in this year’s ADCO Kids Help-

ing Kids Walkathon to support On-tario’s four regional children’s hos-pitals. For more than 20 years now, ADCO members, their staff and the families and neighbourhoods they serve have come together to raise funds for the children’s hospitals in Toronto, London, Ottawa and Ham-ilton. Over the years, we’ve raised over a million dollars to help these institutions keep delivering world-class medical services for Ontario’s children. Your enthusiastic participa-tion of the ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon is just one of the many ways ADCO members across Ontario demonstrate community leadership and involvement beyond simply de-livering high quality licensed child care services for tens of thousands of families each and every day.

ADCO members who dedi-cated their 2012 Kids Helping Kids Walkathon events to SickKids Hos-pital have even more reason to be proud of themselves. At a special ceremony held recently in Toronto, the SickKids Hospital Foundation recognized ADCO with the 2012 Kids Believe in SickKids Top Fund-raising Group Award. It was truly an honour to accept this award and ADCO was thrilled that last year’s Walkathon Chair, Joan Willms, was able to attend the ceremony. Joan and the team at Graydon Hall Nurs-ery Schools have been tireless sup-porters of the ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon and of the SickKids Foundation.

Wendy was also in Toronto last month as part of a panel discussion about the Provincial government’s Full-Day Kindergarten Program which aired on TVO’s The Agenda. It is no easy task to sift through the many political and special interests that are trying to shape the public’s perception of this initiative. ADCO wishes to thank host Steve Paikin, producer Hilary Clark and the entire team at The Agenda for their profes-sionalism and attention to detail. Wendy especially appreciated the grace with which The Agenda staff conducted themselves after two of the other panelists asked her to leave the waiting area.

This isn’t the first time that an independent licensed owner/opera-tor has been deliberately marginal-ized just before or during a public appearance. Kim experienced a

similar incident in 2010 while at-tending a Provincial consultation meeting to which ADCO had been invited. In that instance, two of the other guests tried to get ADCO representatives removed from the meeting halfway through the pro-ceedings, despite the fact that no-body from ADCO had offered any comment. In both cases, the insti-gators succeeded only in undermin-ing their own credibility with event organizers.

We draw such incidents to your attention, as they illustrate the overt bias and hostility many commercial child care owner/operators still face in their day-to-day lives. The fact is, there are great and not-so-great licensed child care programs in all sectors—commercial, not-for-profit, co-op and public. Yet, there are some stakeholder groups and even some public officials who still buy into out-dated stereotypes about auspice and quality and whose conduct reflects these personal biases. Even if there were a link between quality and aus-pice, it would still be an injustice for any individual or organization to act on such an assumption. If racial pro-filing is unacceptable, auspice profil-ing must be so as well.

Families can only benefit when RECEs are encouraged to start their own businesses doing the work that they love and conscientious profes-sionals in other disciplines are en-couraged to invest in licensed child care services. As ADCO members, we’ve had the privilege of witness-ing how the perspectives of RECEs,

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nurses, engineers, scientists, pro-fessors and many other highly skilled professionals at the own-ership level enhances the quality and range of programs available to families.

Our cover story this month features Erla McCaig, who prior to opening a licensed centre in con-junction with the Peekaboo Child Care network and earning a degree in education, worked as an environ-mental scientist for a regional mu-nicipality. Erla not only brings her knowledge of scientific method and passion for environmental preser-vation to the programming in her own centre, she has helped count-less other licensed child care pro-grams do so as well.

And, while we’re on the sub-ject of environmental preservation, we’d like to express our congratu-lations to Karen and Chris Eilersen of Discovery Child Care in Barrie. Discovery Child Care just earned Earth Day Canada’s Hometown Hero Award for small business. The

Hometown Hero Awards Program was established in 2004 by Earth Day Canada and recognizes and celebrates environmental leaders, groups, organizations and small businesses that foster meaningful, long–term community awareness and action. The honour was bit-tersweet in that just before Karen and Chris learned of it, Discovery’s not-for-profit operations were forced to disband after their school board suddenly changed child care pro-viders. Fortunately, Discovery Child Care will continue bringing its unique brand of environmentally aware child care programming to Barrie-area families in its two origi-nal locations.

Just a couple of additional notes before we wish you the best for the summer season...

We are thrilled to announce that Wintergreen recently joined the ADCO Member Discount Pro-gram. This discount includes 7% off the regular price of each

item, plus free shipping and handling, which is usually 15% of the total purchase price. So, you’ll save 22% just for being an ADCO member!

The application process for vol-unteers interested in serving on the ADCO board of directors is open and ongoing. If you are a licensed owner/operator and your program has been an ADCO centre member in good standing for at least one year, you may wish to consider this unique opportunity. To learn more, please visit the “Mem-bers Only” section of the ADCO web site.

Last, but not least, please mark your calendar for Fri-day, November 8. That’s the date of the 2013 ADCO Fall Conference. It will be held at the Delta Markham once again and we look forward to seeing you there!

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by:.Terry.Romaniuk,.Associate,.Lancaster,.brooks.&.Welch.LLP.

ver the next several issues of Childcare Today, we will be covering some of the current legal issues affecting not-for-profit corporations. In

no way are these pieces to be seen as “legal advice” and if you wish to act on anything you read in these articles do be sure to seek independent legal counsel. Saying that, what better place to start than at the beginning; so how are your constating documents, anyway?

Con-who…stating-what? Constating documents are the documents that allow the corporation to exist and provide the framework for it to operate; sometimes col-lectively referred to as a corporation’s “constitution”. The documents that make up the constating documents of a typical not-for-profit are the articles of incorporation and corporate by-law no. 1.

Starting our discussion at this point is logical, but it is also timely as the Federal Government has recently introduced new legislation for federally incorporated not-for-profit corporations. The Province of Ontario is expected to follow suit…any day now.

The Provincial Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 20101

(“ONCA”) has been, as the name implies, ‘ready-to-go’ for a couple of years now. At the start of 2013, it was expect-ed that this new statute would be “proclaimed in force” (i.e. made “the law of the land”) on or around July 1, but, earlier this year, the government stated that in order “to provide additional time for not-for-profit corporations to prepare for the transition to the new legislation, [ONCA will be proclaimed] no earlier than January 2014.”2

If any of you reading this were not aware of ONCA, don’t worry, there is a three-year ‘transitional’ period written into the draft legislation—i.e. what they have down on e-paper so far (www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_10n15_e.htm). Even af-

ter the three-year period has expired, if your corpora-tions’ articles and by-laws do not conform to the legisla-tion, the offending provisions will be read as if they are conforming3 (how this will happen is, as of right now, a subject of great bewilderment).

Given that it is at least six months away from becoming the governing statute for provincial not-for-profits, we won’t go into further detail about ONCA in this piece (or the Fed-eral equivalent, the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act4). Rather, I will encourage you to familiarize yourself with the draft legislation and offer you some starting points for pre-paring your not-for-profit corporation for any amendments that may be required to your constating documents:

Locate and review your corporations’ constating documents and update any records in order to bring your corporation ‘up-to-date’ from a corpo-rate reporting standpoint.

Determine if the corporation is operating in con-flict with any provisions in the current constating documents along with how the corporation should ideally operate in order to determine which provi-sions need to be amended versus those that should be amended. In reviewing the current provisions of your constating documents, pay special attention to those pertaining to Directors and Members.

Review the draft ONCA legislation once again and see if any of the provisions speak to those amend-ments or create discussion regarding other aspects of the corporation.

In the next issue, I will outline the major areas of change between the current governing legislation, the Ontario Corporations Act5, and ONCA, and what these changes might mean for your organization.

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Ontario’s Childcare IndustryG o v e r n m e n t

by:.Greg.Humphreys,.Chair,.ADCO.Government.Relations.Committee

SUGGESTIONS.FOR.A.SUSTAINAbLE.&.AFFORDAbLE.ELP

n recent months, there have been numerous media reports about the shortcomings of the Early Learning Program (ELP). Certainly, there

are many things the Government could have done dif-ferently. Things which would have reduced implemen-tation costs, made the ELP more sustainable, and miti-gated the devastating impact it has had on Ontario’s licensed child care sector. Yet, there are many families who are now using the new school-based facilities. This makes the ELP difficult to roll back. The real question is where the Province can go from here.

How can we stabilize the licensed child care sector? How can we continue to increase the number of licensed spaces so that all Ontario families have real choices? How can we ensure there are enough RECEs to staff these facilities? And, how can we do all of this without increasing the burden on taxpayers?

The first step is to consider the context in which the ELP was designed. Prior to the ELP, independent licensed child care programs in most neighbourhoods across On-tario had full-time spaces available. Had sufficient fee-subsidy dollars been made available to lower income families and these spaces filled, the ELP may not have been needed. The sad reality is that many municipali-ties chose to deliver their own programs rather than pur-chase similar services from licensed third parties. Ideo-logical bias drove other municipalities to refuse to enter into purchase-of-service agreements with licensed cen-tres run as small businesses. Instead, some chose to do business with higher cost providers, leaving thousands

of regulated spaces vacant and forcing lower income families living nearby to rely on informal care.

What looked to some like a need for a public sector “system” of child care may well have been a need for better administration of the licensed child care spaces that already existed in Ontario. Responsibility for child care system man-agement and fee subsidy administration has not always been in the hands of municipalities. Reinstating them as Provincial responsibilities now may well help reduce the taxpayer costs related to child care. At minimum, the Prov-ince could opt to eliminate much of the duplication that is currently occurring at the municipal level. It could insist on the use of standardized funding formulas that are appli-cable to all parents and all child care operators in Ontario.

The Province could also promote a level playing field for all licensed child care providers. It could officially con-demn the practice of auspice profiling and update the Day Nurseries Act so that it applies to all early learning and child care settings, whether they are run as business-es, as not-for-profit enterprises, or by public sector entities such as schools. A level playing field is essential to the continued vitality of licensed child care services in On-tario, because it attracts the best and the brightest to the field. Having the opportunity to own and operate their own licensed child care centres is a key factor for many students entering ECE diploma programs. For many new-comers to Canada, particularly those who have creden-tials in health and/or education, becoming a licensed child care owner/operator is the culmination of a life-long dream. Limiting such opportunities for ECEs or new-comers is a mistake. It not only diminishes the diversity of the licensed child care sector, it drives more caregivers and families into the underground economy.

Even in cases where parents prefer to use licensed child care services located in schools, schools don’t need to carry the costs of retro-fitting the space. ADCO members who have met with their MPPs have learned that the public schools that were relatively easy to retro-fit for younger children have already been converted and the most ex-pensive aspects of the ELP’s implementation have yet to take place. The Province could encourage school boards to make space available to licensed third parties with lease terms sufficient for operators to recover any renovation costs. The Province could even develop a standard lease contract for use by school boards and licensed providers.

Given Ontario’s mounting debt, it would also be reasonable, for the time being at least, for the Province to slow down and focus on parent subsidies rather than continue to create public sector spaces that future gen-erations will not be able to afford.

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by:.Mary.Soundy,.Supervisor,.Alpha.Child.Care.

The following is the first installment of a two-part series about preventing and documenting incidents where a child either has or could have been hurt while attending licensed child care.

magine this scenario: after dropping her daughter Sally off into the preschool room, a parent at your centre (we’ll call her Jennifer)

quickly pops her head into your office and asks if she can speak with you for a minute. You happily invite her in, offering her a comfortable chair. Jennifer begins to tell you that when she was giving Sally a bath last night she noticed a very large bruise on Sally’s back. She says that when she spoke with Sally’s teachers, no one knew what had happened and no one saw the incident occur. Jennifer is upset and questioning the quality of your services, because nobody can account for the bruise.

If you’ve ever found yourself in a similar situation, you’re not alone. Parents entrust their nearest and dearest to us each day. As licensed child care owner/operators, supervisors, RECEs and staff team members, it is our responsibility to ensure that their children are in a safe learning environment. Yet, despite everyone’s very best efforts, incidents can still occur. Nothing feels worse than not knowing what happened.

After an incident, parents need information, openness and reassurance. Understandably, they want a full explanation as to what took place and what steps you’ve taken to ensure a similar incident doesn’t happen again. Careful documentation about all incidents where a child is or could have been hurt is critical, even if the incident doesn’t meet the criteria for a “serious occurrence.” In the next issue, we’ll delve into the details of documentation and why it is so important. Right now, however, let’s talk a bit about prevention and communication.

be.proactive.about.prevention

Early Childhood Educators need to be aware of where the children are and what they are doing at all times. They need to position themselves in the playroom in a way that allows them to continuously scan all areas of play. Higher traffic areas such as the dramatic play and block centres need to have closer supervision. This could require a staff member to be stationed between these two areas. Staff should be communicating to one another when and if they need to leave these areas, so another staff member can step in and take over. As well, on the playground, staff members need to be positioned in high traffic areas, such as the climber and bike/wagon areas. When staff members are positioned properly, they’re able to step in and redirect children’s play in a positive way without curbing the creativity of the children. This helps prevent conflicts between children and many incidents from occurring.

build.trust.right.from.the.beginningDespite these efforts, incidents may occur. You need

to be able to trust your staff and they need to be able to trust you. Owner/operators and supervisors need to be readily accessible to staff and staff need to feel comfortable sharing both good and bad news with you. Position yourself as a source of information and support and focus on helping each member of your team be successful in his or her role.

Every member of your staff team needs to make it a goal to build strong, trusting relationships with parents. Building a good rapport from the very beginning of your centre’s relationship with a family will help to build the strong level of trust everyone involved will need to resolve the challenging situations that so often occur when young children are involved.

Understand that sometimes building relationships with parents can take time. No matter what stage your relationship with a family is at, it is good practice to address parents by name and engage them in small talk. If staff sense that a parent is upset about something or had a difficult day, they should acknowledge those feelings as it sends the message that they truly care about that parent as a person. Another important part of building relationships with parents is to always follow up when parents have shared information personally or professionally with you. Once your relationship has

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a solid foundation, relaying information, such as an incident report, will be a lot easier because you, your staff and the parent involved all trust one another.

be.clear.about.your.policiesEarning a family’s trust is about more than just

building relationships, however. Parents also need to know what steps you will take if their child does happen to get hurt while in your care. Include this information in your parent orientation manual and ensure all staff members understand your policies and are prepared to use them as a guideline should an incident occur. Ensure that your day care’s policies and procedures reflect your commitment to open communication with parents regarding any injuries to their children, however minor they may seem at the time of the incident.

Always.be.prompt.and.transparentIn the event of an incident involving a child, whether

serious or seemingly very minor, contact the parent and inform them of the situation as soon as possible, as they may want to have a physician’s opinion to determine whether further action is necessary. If you’re not sure what happened, because nobody saw exactly what occurred, be honest and say so. You can also share any information or ideas you or your staff have about what might have occurred.

Recognize.that.there.will.be.a.range.of.responses

The approach and the reaction of a parent in response to an incident or occurrence will differ in each individual parent, as we all have different perspectives and personalities. It will also likely differ from the staff’s interpretation of a situation. This is another reason why supervisors need to insist that their staff members build a strong rapport with each of the families with whom they work. This rapport needs to be established as soon as a child is enrolled in the centre. Communication helps you and your team better understand the parent’s personality, the family background and the family dynamics. This helps the Early Childhood Educator become aware of how each parent likes to be approached, how they like to receive information, and what information they want to hear about.

The safety and well-being of the children at your centre must be everyone’s top priority all of the time. Preventing incidents from occurring is critical to maintaining parents’ trust. Open communication is also important. Next time, we’ll explore how documentation plays a role in both prevention and communication. Until then, be safe!

Mary.Soundy.has.both.an.ECE.diploma.from.Sheridan.College.and.a.bA. in.Psychology. from.York.University ..She. regularly.trains. staff. for. Alpha. Child. Care’s. two. brampton. locations,.delivers.workshops.at.child.care.sector.events.and.is.active.in.the.brampton.Supervisory.Network ..She.may.be.reached.at:.marys@alphachildcare .ca .


Ontario’s Childcare IndustryC o v e r S t o r y

by:.Andrea.Hannen

hen Erla McCaig began her career as an envi-ronmental enforcement

chemist, owning a licensed child care centre was the last thing on her mind. Once her daughter was born, her whole world changed. Child care became all-important. A close friend, Lee-Anne Arkell, founder of Peekaboo Child Care was in the process of opening her first licensed centre. After see-ing Arkell’s Mississauga program, McCaig kept coming back to the idea of opening a Peekaboo site in Kitchener.

“Lee-Anne had created a mod-el that works really well,” recalls McCaig. “She brought the secure Video-Over-The-Internet concept to the Canadian child care scene and parents absolutely loved it. It was exactly the kind of centre I wanted for my daughter and I was thrilled to be able to bring the same level of care to other families as well.” That was back in 1999. Peekaboo Child Care in Kitchener has since grown to serve over 90 children from six weeks to six years of age.

McCaig credits her fellow Peeka-boo owner/operators with much of her centre’s success. “A lot of people call Peekaboo a child care chain, but that’s not really the best way to describe it,” explains McCaig. “All Peekaboo centres are owner-oper-ated and Peekaboo’s expansion has been through close personal con-nections. Several members of Lee-Anne’s family have opened Peeka-boo sites, including her mother, her sister, her aunt and close friends. Two former Peekaboo staff members have opened their own sites as well.

“Everyone who has opened a Peekaboo centre has done it for the right reasons and each owner has brought something different to the table,” says McCaig. “We share re-sources and participate in joint pur-chasing, which allows us to achieve economies of scale and make the most of our time. Where it makes sense to collaborate—for instance, in the development of the poli-cies and procedures—we do so. It’s a wonderful, positive way to work. Each one of us is passionate about quality and about finding new ways to serve families well.”

One of the areas in which Peek-aboo Child Care has excelled is in continually enhancing and adapt-ing its curriculum. While all Peeka-boo centres follow the ELECT crite-ria preferred by the Province, each Peekaboo staff team is empowered to make their programming their own and to customize it to reflect the interests and needs of the chil-dren in their care. McCaig’s strong feelings about science education have also been embraced by her Peekaboo colleagues.

Since the very beginning, Mc-Caig used her background as a scientist to train Peekaboo staff teams and other educators about

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interestsandneedsofthechildrenintheircare.”

At Peekaboo Child Care in Kitchener, children’s natural curiosity is encouraged through advanced science programming.



how to develop and deliver en-hanced science programming to young children. “It’s important to remember that many of the world’s greatest scientific discov-eries have come about as a result of play,” explains McCaig. “I help educators give children the tools to ask the right questions, so they can find out about the things that in-trigue them. The goal is always to encourage the children’s natural curiosity, so they’re motivated to explore the “why’s” of life.”

McCaig has embraced the con-tinuous learning ethic in her own life as well. Three years ago, she re-turned to university to earn a second degree. In addition to her Hon. BSc, she now holds a BA in education. “I really love what I do and I wanted to be even better at it,” says McCaig. “I love working with the children. I love seeing them graduate from the centre and then hearing from their parents that they’re reading at an accelerated level. Running the cen-tre has become my life’s work and I’m really proud of what my staff and I are doing here.”

McCaig is also excited about the many technological and com-munications advancements Peeka-boo continues to bring to its centres. “Peekaboo was really the first when it came to making it possible for parents to check in on their children

over a secure Internet connection. Having video cameras in classroom areas gives parents a much greater appreciation for the educational side of licensed child care. It fos-ters greater trust between parents and child care staff. It also brings families closer together, because it creates so many opportunities for parents and grandparents to talk with children about what they did in class that day.”

While Peekaboo has always made computers and the Internet readily available to staff, it is cur-rently testing a new system that will see a tablet computer in every class-room. Some of the goals of the new system are to give staff instant ac-cess to children’s records and make it easier for RECEs to document chil-dren’s progress relative to the ELECT criteria. “We’ll even be able to send pictures to parents on the spot and get updates and notes from parents as things happen throughout the day,” says McCaig.

Like many others who run li-censed child care programs as small businesses, McCaig has faced sig-nificant challenges. “When we first opened our doors, a lot of the diffi-culties we faced were related to the biases many public officials had against commercial operators,” re-calls McCaig. “While this is still an issue, our staff have done a great

job at debunking a lot of the myths that surround the auspice debate. We focus on building relationships and as more RECEs come through our doors as students and as em-ployees, they’re helping change the old stereotypes. It takes time.”

The Province’s Full-Day Kin-dergarten program has also posed some challenges for McCaig’s cen-tre. “We know that we’ll lose a few children each fall, but like other in-dependent licensed centres, we’ve been getting some of those families back afterwards,” she says. “Our hours are more convenient and once parents calculate the costs of having to pack all of the children’s meals themselves, they realize that the actual price difference is only about five dollars per day.”

McCaig’s advice to those con-sidering opening their own licensed centres? “Find people whose exper-tise compliments yours and help each other be successful,” says Mc-Caig. “I was able to do this through Peekaboo and also through ADCO. ADCO offers a great network of people who are willing to share in-formation and who really care how things are going for you.” She adds: “Once your business is up and run-ning, be prepared to allocate time to staying informed about legislation and political issues and to advocat-ing on your centre’s behalf.”

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by:.Erla.McCaig,.ADCO.Walkathon.Chair

THANK.YOU!

very year for more than 20 years now, ADCO member centres across have Ontario participated in the ADCO Kids Helping Kids

Walkathon. Each centre coordinates its own walk to raise funds for one of Ontario’s four regional chil-dren’s hospitals. Nearly 11,000 children participated in 2013. Their efforts were facilitated by over 1,000 child care owner/operators, supervisors, staff, fam-ily members and volunteers. Monies are still coming in and being tallied, but rest assured that your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment made 2013 one of the best years ever.

That’s really saying something, given that ADCO was recently recognized by the SickKids Hospital Foundation with an award for last year’s ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon. On May 28, ADCO was presented with the Kids Believe in SickKids Top Fundraising Group Award for 2012. This honour recognized more than just the money raised by ADCO member centres and the families they serve, it also recognized the vital work the staff of these centres do in educating the children about healthy lifestyle habits, community involve-ment and giving to others. Congratulations and thank you to last year’s ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon Chair, Joan Willms, of Graydon Hall Nursery Schools for helping us achieve this out-standing honour.

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa

Child's Paradise Day Care Centre, RenfrewOrleans Child Care Centre, OrleansPineview Child Care Centre, Ottawa

London Children’s Health FoundationMulberry Bush Child Care Centre, LondonPeekaboo Child Care, Kitchener

McMaster Children’s Hospital, HamiltonBrant Children's Centre, BurlingtonBurlington Childrens Centre, BurlingtonKidLogic Child Care Learning Center, BurlingtonKinder Haus Day Care, BeamsvillePeekaboo Child Care, BurlingtonPeekaboo Child Care, GeorgetownPeekaboo Child Care - Derry Rd., Milton Peekaboo Child Care - Escarpment Way, MiltonPeekaboo Child Care - Maple Ave., MiltonPeekaboo Child Care - Sheldon Drive, CambridgeThe Day Care Centre, BeamsvilleThe Day Care Centre - A Special Place, BeamsvilleWay To Grow Daycare, St. Catharines

SickKids Hospital, TorontoAlpha Child Care Ltd., BramptonAvenue Road Child Care, TorontoBambi's Castle Day Care Centre, TimminsBayview Gardens Child Care Centre, WillowdaleBridges Kinder Connection Daycare, Pickering

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Byron Street Academy, WhitbyCentres for Early Learning - Birchmount Place, TorontoCentres for Early Learning - Cambridge Place, ScarboroughCentres for Early Learning - Dawes Road, TorontoCentres for Early Learning - Denton Place, ScarboroughCentres for Early Learning - Palisades, DownsviewCentres for Early Learning - Sandalwood, DownsviewCentres for Early Learning - Seneca Hill, North YorkCentres for Early Learning - West Hill, ScarboroughCentres for Early Learning - WestonChildren's Choice Daycare, BramptonChild's Paradise Day Care Centre, RenfrewDiscovery Child Care - Harvie Road, BarrieDiscovery Child Care - Holly Meadows, BarrieDiscovery Child Care - Big Bay Point, BarrieDiscovery Child Care - Trillium Woods, BarrieEdukids - Children's Village 1, TorontoEdukids - Children's Village 3, TorontoEdukids - Discovery Place Child Care, Pickering Edukids - Don Mills Child Care Centre, TorontoEdukids - St. George's Daycare Centre, AjaxEdukids - St. Paul's On The Hill, PickeringEdukids - St. Thomas' Child Care Centre, WhitbyEdukids - The Moppett School, NewmarketEdukids - Yonge Churchill Child Care Centre, North YorkEdukids - York Mills Child Care Centre, Toronto Edukids - Castleview Child Care Centre, WhitbyEdukids Child Care - Bayly, AjaxEdukids Child Care - BowmanvilleEdukids Child Care - Dundas Street, WhitbyEdukids Child Care - Glenanna Road, PickeringEdukids Child Care - Harmony Road, OshawaEdukids Child Care - Salem Road, AjaxEdukids Child Care - Altona, PickeringEdukids Child Care Centre, BradfordEdukids Child Care Centre, PickeringEdukids Child Care Centre, WhitbyEdukids -Christ Church Child Care Centre, StouffvilleFinch Business Park Child Care Centre, TorontoGraydon Hall Childcare Service, North YorkHelping Hands Daycare - Rougemount, PickeringHelping Hands Daycare - Lakeside, AjaxHelping Hands Daycare - PickeringHelping Hands Daycare - Westney, AjaxHelping Hands Daycare, CourticeHelping Hands Daycare, WhitbyHighlands Early Learning and Child Care Centre, ElmsdaleJubilee Daycare, TorontoKidLogic Child Care Learning Center, BurlingtonKimbercroft Day Nurseries Ltd. #1, ScarboroughKimbercroft Day Nurseries Ltd. #2, ScarboroughKingsway Nursery School, TorontoPeekaboo Child Care - Avondale, Brampton

Peekaboo Child Care - Dixie Rd., MississaugaPeekaboo Child Care - Maple Grove, CambridgePeekaboo Child Care - Mapleview, BarriePeekaboo Child Care - Matheson, MississaugaPeekaboo Child Care - Mill St., BramptonPeekaboo Child Care - Queen St., BramptonPeekaboo Child Care - Torquay Mews, MississaugaPeekaboo Child Care - Traders, MississaugaPeekaboo Child Care - Winston Churchill, OakvillePeekaboo Child Care - Wolfedale, MississaugaPeekaboo Child Care Centre - Sandalwood, BramptonPeekaboo Child Care Centre, GeorgetownPeekaboo Child Care Centre, OrangevillePeekaboo Child Care Centre, WoodbridgePeekaboo Child Care, ActonPeekaboo Child Care, BarriePeekaboo Child Care, MiltonPeekaboo Child Care, NewmarketPineview Child Care Centre, OttawaPlaybox Nursery School, OakvillePumpkin Patch Child Care, CaledonPumpkin Patch Two, BoltonShare and Care Child Care Centre, StouffvilleSheppard Business Park Child Care, TorontoSheppard Square Childcare Center, ScarboroughStouffville Village Child Care Centre, StouffvilleSunshine Child Care - Simcoe, TorontoSunshine Child Care - St Joseph, TorontoSunshine Childcare - Fairmount, ScarboroughSunshine Childcare - St. Denis, TorontoSunshine Childcare - St. Vincent, TorontoSunshine Childcare, ScarboroughTamarack Day Care Centre, ScarboroughTiny Treasure Daycare, MississaugaTiny Treasure Montessori, Mississauga

Bambi’s Castle Day Care Centre in Timmins has participated in the ADCO Kids Helping Kids Walkathon every year for more than a decade.



by:.Deborah.Gibson,.b .A .,.CIP

any child care operators understand the com-pliance guidelines to run a licensed child care or school in Ontario today, but are you aware

of the various insurance products available to respond to these evolving risk exposures?

As the broader public (your parent clientele) become aware of new standards and duties for licensed child care programs, compliance not only matters, it will need to drive how you conduct your business. With fines, penal-ties or lawsuits at stake, you need appropriate protection to defend your rights and protect your assets.

Here is a handy checklist outlining the various types of policies to assist you in matching the right policy to the risk:

General Liability or Commercial Liability – These policy wordings usually exist as a package insur-ing the rest of your property and commercial busi-ness operations. It responds to liability for bodily injury or property damage for which you could be held liable. With the evolution of liability wordings, common exclusions under General Liability policy wordings can include Directors & Officers Liability, Employment Practices Liability and Errors & Omis-sions Liability.

Directors & Officers Liability for profit organiza-tions – The coverage insures the directors and offi-cers of the corporation against wrongful acts where the corporation cannot indemnify the directors and officers by law or financial impairment. It can ex-tend to outside directorships as well.

Directors & Officers Liability for non-profit or-ganizations – The coverage here also responds to wrongful acts and provides indemnity to the entity, the individual “insured persons” if the entity can-not indemnify them and outside directorships. The insurer will provide defense costs as well as indem-nity comparable to coverage for private Directors & Officers Liability wordings.

Employment Practices Liability – This wording is targeted at defining wrongful acts with respect to “wrongful employment acts or practices”. It is often added as an extension or included within a wording for Directors & Officers Liability by broad-ening the coverage description. They can define, for example, harassment, discrimination, wrong-ful “discipline” and failure to provide or enforce adequate or consistent corporate policies and pro-cedures designed to prevent, halt or punish such inappropriate conduct.

Errors & Omissions Liability – Usually this word-ing stands as a separate policy to address wrong-ful acts as they are committed in the performance of, or failure to perform, “professional services”. Teachers and Registered Early Childhood Educators are considered “professionals” who belong to Col-leges that act as regulatory authorities capable of registering fines or discipline for violations.

Indeed, the coverage details, extensions and ex-clusions, conditions and terms for all these types of li-ability policies differ dramatically among insurers. Li-ability policies are part of the same evolution that has affected the legislative changes in Ontario to which you must comply.

CCV Insurance & Financial is here to help you nav-igate the evolution together, please contact us for more information about how to minimize risk.

This.literature.is.descriptive.only ..The.precise.coverage.af-forded.is.subject.to.the.terms,.conditions.and.exclusions.of.the. policy. issued .. For. further. information,. please. contact.dgibson@ccvinsurance .com

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by:.Maria.Dicresce-Niles,.Nutritionist.at.Food.for.Tots

arm weather means spending time outdoors and nothing is more enjoyable than a great summer picnic or barbecue. For busy families,

a day outside is a welcome and much-deserved break that’s far too important to risk having food poisoning spoil the fun. To help parents and children stay healthy this summer, here are five simple tips for keeping food summer-safe. Please feel free to share them with the families at your centre.

Food.Safety.Tip.#1:.ChillAs the outdoor weather warms up, remember never to leave food at room temperature for more than one hour. Keep all perishable food cold using an ice-packed cooler that is kept away from direct sunlight. To ensure that the cooler is holding temperature at four degrees Celsius or less, place a small thermometer inside.

Food.Safety.Tip.#2:.SeparateIf barbecuing, keep all raw meat, poultry and seafood separate from other foods. Use sealable containers or plastic bags to avoid leaks. Keep the raw meat at the bottom of the cooler and place other foods on top to avoid having meat juices leak onto other food items.

Food.Safety.Tip.#3:.CleanAlways come prepared with hand soap (or sanitizer) and clean your hands thoroughly before and after you have handled raw meat, poultry and seafood. This will help ensure that there is no cross contamination. Hands should be washed for a minimal of twenty seconds. Cross contamination can also occur through plates and utensils coming into contact with raw meat, poultry or seafood and then with other foods. Be sure to bring along plenty of extra plates and utensils to avoid this.

Food.Safety.Tip.#4:.CookBacteria is killed by cooking, so all meats must be cooked to a safe internal temperature to eliminate the risk (see temperature guidelines below). Use a digital thermometer to ensure the meat has reached the safety zone. Always use a clean plate for cooked or ready prepared foods.

Safe internal cooking temperatures:

Beef (medium to well-done) 71 to 77° C

Pork 71° C

Poultry 74° C

Fish 70° C

Food.Safety.Tip.#5:.LeftoversOnce you have enjoyed your meal, place leftovers in a container and never leave it out at room temperature for more than one hour. Always store leftovers in a cooler and on top of unprepared food to avoid cross contamination.

Keeping these food safety tips top of mind when planning an outdoor picnic will ensure that your food is not only delicious, but safe too! Have a safe, healthylicious and fun-filled summer!

Thank.you.to.Food.For.Tots.(www .fft .ca).for.sharing.this.information .. For. more. healthy. eating. tips. please. visit.www .healthylicious .ca .

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THE.EMOTIONAL.LIFE.OF.YOUR.bRAIN:.HOW.ITS.UNIQUE.PATTERNS.AFFECT.THE.WAY.YOU.THINK,.FEEL,.AND.

LIVE—AND.HOW.YOU.CAN.CHANGE.THEMPlume.Publishing,.2012,.304.pages ..Available.on.Amazon .com.for.$12 .18.(paperback)

About the Authors:

Richard J. Davidson received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University. He is also the Founder and Chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Center specializes in research into positive emotional qualities such as kindness and compassion. In 2011, Dr. Davidson was given the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine.

Sharon Begley is the senior health and science correspondent at Reuters. She is the bestselling author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.

The hardcover version of this book came out last year and made the New York Times Bestsellers List. Since then, Amazon has named the paperback version One of the Best Books of 2013. The authors assert that the human personality is composed of six basic emotional dimensions: resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context, and attention. They discuss each dimension as a continuum, so you can determine where you are along each one, and how they fit together to create your unique emotional “fingerprint.” The book also explains the brain circuits that underlie each dimension. Some reviewers suggest that this new way of understanding the brain could affect how conditions like autism and depression are treated. At minimum, the book is a great read for gaining new insight into the emotional diversity of the people around you.

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very year, the Technical Standards & Safety Authority (TSSA) and ADCO team up to promote escalator safety among young children. Licensed child care programs from across Ontario participate in this outreach effort. In recognition of their efforts, a special

draw was held. The prize is a gift certificate good for two 2013 ADCO Fall Conference registrations. Congratulations to Avenue Road Child Care in Toronto and thank you to everyone who entered the draw and contributed to the success of the 2013 Move With The Grooves Campaign.

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Membership.Fee.InformationFees.are.based.on.a.sliding.scale.to.encourage.centres.to.join .

ONLY.ADCO.MEMbERSHIP.GIVES.YOU.ACCESS.TO.ALL.OF.THESE.GREAT.

PRODUCTS.&.SERVICES

ADCO. is. dedicated. to. helping. its. members. optimize. their. day-to-day.operations,.enhance.their.financial.performance.and.grow.their.centres ..Whether.you.deliver. licensed.child.care.services.on.a.commercial.or.a.non-profit.basis,.joining.ADCO.is.the.smartest.investment.you.can.make ..Here.are.a.just.few.of.the.exciting.benefits.of.ADCO.membership:

LIAbILITY.&.COMMERCIAL.INSURANCEDesigned.exclusively.for.licensed.child.care.centres,.the.ADCO.insurance.program.offers.unparalleled.coverage,.service.and.value ..In.fact,.most.members.say.their.insurance.savings.alone.more.than.offset.the.cost.of.their.annual.ADCO.membership.dues .

GROUP.bENEFITS.INSURANCEThink.you.can't.afford.to.offer.your.staff.medical.or.dental.benefits,.or.disability.and.long.term.care.insurance?.Think.again ..The.ADCO.plan.offers.a.flexible.range.of.options.designed.to.suit.every.need.and.budget .

CHILDCARE.TODAY.MAGAzINEAs.part.of.your.membership,.you'll. receive.a.subscription.to.Childcare.Today,. the.only.quarterly.business.magazine.exclusively. for.child.care.owners.and.managers ..

GOVERNMENT.UPDATES.&.ADVOCACY.TOOLSWhen.you’re. involved. in.a.regulated. industry,. it’s. imperative.that.you.make.advocacy.part.of.your.regular.operating.routine ..ADCO.works.with.a.professional.government.relations.firm.to.monitor.and.report.on.the.activities. of. the. government. ministries,. departments,. agencies. and.committees.that.most.affect.your.program.and.your.role.as.an.employer ..ADCO. centre. members. receive. a. regular. summary. of. these. findings,.complete.with.advice.about.how.you.can.take.action ..

AFFORDAbLE.TRAINING.FOR.YOU.&.YOUR.TEAMADCO.conferences.always.offer.sessions.customized.to.meet.the.unique.needs.of.owners,.supervisors.and.frontline.staff;.as.well.as.opportunities.to.meet.leading.suppliers.to.the.industry,.see.their.displays.and.learn.more.about.their.products.and.services ..

THE.KIDS.HELPING.KIDS.WALKATHONEvery. year,. ADCO. members. from. across. the. province. mobilize. their.communities. in.support.of.Ontario's.four.regional.children's.hospitals ..Together,.ADCO.centres.have.raised.over.a.million.dollars.for.this.most.worthy.cause .

ONLINE.MARKETING.OPPORTUNITIESReach.out.to.parents.by.being.part.of.the.ADCO.child.care.directory ..In.addition.to.your.contact.data,.you.can.include.photos.and.information.about.your.centre,.or.a.link.to.your.website ..You.can.also.use.the.online.job.bank.to.advertise.for.new.staff ..

PROFESSIONAL.&.SOCIAL.NETWORKINGThe."Members.Only".section.of.the.ADCO.web.site.provides.members.with.a.private.discussion.area,.where.you.can.share.ideas,.ask.other.members.for.advice.and.participate.in.ADCO-exclusive.online.polls.that.help.shape.the.policies. that.govern.the.child.care. industry ..Additionally,.all.ADCO.events. include. ample. time. for. face-to-face. networking,. relationship.building.and.the.exchange.of.expertise .

.REGULAR.MEMbERSHIPFirst centre. ............................................................................ $250 .00 (includes magazine subscription, owner/manager access to the "members only" section of the Adco web site, voting privileges at AGM, discounted pricing for Adco events, eligibility to purchase commercial liability and group benefits insurance at special rates through exclusive Adco programs, and much more.)

Each.additional.centre. ......................................... $100 .00/centre(includes one magazine per centre and member discounts for each centre)

Maximum.membership.fee:. ........................................... $1500 .00 (includes magazines for up to 12 additional centres, plus member discounts for each centre)

The.ADCO.membership.year.runs.from.January.to.December ..Fees.paid.by.those.joining.ADCO.mid-year.will.be.pro-rated ...

.ASSOCIATE.CORPORATE.MEMbERSHIP (includes one magazine subscription, advance notice of print and mail advertising opportunities, advance notice of Adco events and exhibit and sponsorship opportunities, invitations to networking events with Adco members, the opportunity to participate in the Adco Member discount program and more.)

Firms/persons/Associations that supply goods/services to the child care industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300 .00

.ASSOCIATE.INDIVIDUAL.MEMbERSHIP (includes one magazine subscription, advance notice of Adco events, invitations to networking events with Adco members and priority access to the Adco Help Line.)

An individual or ece interested inmanaging or owning a child care program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150 .00

.STUDENT.MEMbERSHIP (proof of student status required annually. includes one magazine subscription, discount pricing on Adco events, invitations to events where you can network with child care owners and managers.)

An individual enrolled in an ece degree/diploma program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50 .00

VISIT.WWW .ADCO-O .ON .CA.AND.CLICK.THE.JOINADCO.LINK.ON.THE.FRONT.PAGE.OF.THE.SITE .

Or,.if.you.don’t.have.easy.computer.access,.please.call.1-800-567-7075.and.ask.one.of.our.operators.to.help.you.sign.up .

All.applications.submitted.electronically.before.noon.on.Friday.are.processed.on.Monday,.with. invoices.mailed.on. Tuesday ..Remit. payment. as. directed. on. your. invoice .. Access. to. the.“members.only”.section.of.the.ADCO.web.site.and.letters.of.ADCO.membership.in.good.standing.are.issued.only.after.your.membership.payment. . is. received.and.cleared.by.the.bank ..Please.allow.up.to.six.weeks.for.delivery .

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