Resources

Quick Reference Resources:

• All Early Years resources on the Sunshine Coast Compiled November 2008: Click here to view

• Early Childhood Development Fact Sheet: Click here to view

• coastparents.ca is a site for parents and by parents of young children. It’s a local one-stop-shop for events, education, drop-in, support groups and resources. Please visit often because the site is regularly updated. Here’s a link to their ACTIVITIES page:
  http://www.coastparents.ca/activities.htm

A List of ECD Resources:

• Council for Early Childhood Development (CECD)
• Centre of Excellence in Early Childhood Development
• Offord Centre for Child Studies
• Institute for Early Childhood Education & Research
• Early Childhood Development Virtual University
• Social Planning & Research Council(SPARC)
• First Call: BC Child & Youth Advocacy Coalition
• Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs
• Invest in Kids
• LEAP BC

Child Care

• Child Care Advocacy Forum
• Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC
• Early Childhood Educators of BC
• Western Canada Family Child Care Association of BC
• Canadian Child Care Federation
• Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre

Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)

• HELP Main Page
• ECD Mapping Portal
• BC Atlas of Child Development

BC Ministry of Children and Family Development

• Early Childhood Development
• Child Care

BC Ministry of Education

• Early Learning

BC Ministry of Health

• Community Care Facilities – Child Care Licensing

Early Years Research Resources

Reversing the Brain Drain – The Early Years Study


Early Years Study, Three Years Later – From Early Child Development to Human Development: Enabling Communities


Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD)
Canadian Social Research Links
Centre for Research and Education in Human Services
Child Care Resource and Research Unit
Child Care Human Resources Sector Council
Early Child Development
Early Childhood Community Development Centre (ECCDC)
Founders’ Network
Invest In Kids
Offord Centre for Child Studies
Search Institute
Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC)
Social Union
Sparrow Lake Alliance
Statistics Canada
The Educator’s Reference Desk
Vanier Institute of the Family
Voices for Children

Human Resources and Social Development Canada

• Canada’s Universal Child Care Program
• Children
• Understanding the Early Years