Being Family Friendly…
LET’S MAKE IT EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS!
The Sunshine Coast Family Friendly Campaign:
http://ecdcoast.wordpress.com/family-friendly-toolkit/
For more information, whether you are a business owner or a customer, please contact:
Heather Evans Cullen
Family Friendly Campaign Coordinator
heatherevans@dccnet.com
604 989-2204
To have your FREE Family Friendly Toolkit delivered to you, with a brief consultation on the campaign (as well as your Family Friendly window [...]

Statistics on Coast Children

Here are some stats that offer a snapshot of the Sunshine Coast’s Early Years community.
On the Sunshine Coast, as of 2008:
There were 1393 children ages 0 – 5 years.
Over the past decade, the child population ages 0 – 5 years has decreased by 21%.
22.7% of our community’s children measure as vulnerable in some aspect of [...]

2009 Success By 6 Grants Awarded

Sunshine Coast Success By 6® Grants
The Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Planning Table is very pleased to announce the awards of Success By 6® Grants to local projects that enhance our supports for families with young children.
There are great benefits to investing in early childhood development – benefits for society, for communities, for neighbourhoods, for [...]

Success By 6® Grants – 2009

Sunshine Coast Success By 6® Grants 2009
The Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Development Planning Table is inviting applications for grants from the Success By 6® funds.
The Success By 6® funds are divided into two streams, in order to best serve our early years community by helping to support successful established programs, as well as by encouraging [...]

2009: a BIG year!

Happy New Year!
Lots of great stuff happening on the Coast for kids age 0 to 6 and their families. We’re soooo busy planning it all, we barely have time to post. Updates soon!
For now, here is a detailed listing of all early years resources on the Coast:
All Early Years resources on the Sunshine Coast
Compiled November [...]

Busy Times!

November and December are busy months for all of us. The Sunshine Coast ECD Planning Table has many projects underway that will bring us to the end of 2008 and through to the start of a fresh new year – 2009!
Here’s a brief list of goings-on:

Upcoming Postpartum Depression Training Day
Creation of a database of all [...]

Early Years Awareness Month: October 2008

The Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Development Planning Table is launching an Early Years Awareness Campaign for the month of October, designed to educate our community about the importance of early childhood and to highlight the vitality of our many local Early Years programs and services.

During October’s Early Years Awareness Campaign, several events are planned in [...]

Vancouver Coastal Early Years Framework

The Sunshine Coast ECD Planning Table has an opportunity to offer our input on an important new project that is now under development: The Vancouver Coastal Early Years Framework.
The Steering Committee for this project includes Kirsten Deasey, Debbie Amaral and Sarah Pond. See full list here http://www.vancouver-coastal-early-years-framework.org/project_contacts.php
The project steering committee members are currently gathering [...]

Success By 6® Grants: $55K given

The Sunshine Coast ECD Planning table is very pleased to announce the awards of Success By 6® Accessibilty Funds to local projects.
The decisions were very tough; there were applications totalling more than $100,000 in requests for funds and only $55K to disperse. Each and every application was a worthy and commendable project. A selection criteria [...]

Success By 6® Accessibility Funds

2008 Sunshine Coast Success By 6® Accessibility Funds
Application Guidelines
The following comprises the Application Package (guidelines, criteria, instructions for the 2008 Sunshine Coast Success By 6® Accessibility Funds. Please read carefully.

About Success By 6®
Success By 6® is an early childhood development initiative dedicated to providing all children with a good start in life. [...]