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Child Care Start-Up Information Session

Wanda Cole & Christine Kopp

Time: 5:15pm - 6:30pm | Location: Child Care Resource & Referral | 9 spaces remaining

Are you interested in opening your own child care centre and not sure where to start?

Join our CCRR consultants for a 1.5 hour information session that will provide you the beginning steps of starting and opening your in-home or commercial setting child care centre.

 

*NO CERTIFICATE IS GIVEN FOR THIS INFORMATION SESSION

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A Day in the Life of An Outdoor Educator

Belva Stone

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online | 24 spaces remaining

Learn first hand what a day looks like as an outdoor educator with Belva Stone. If you've been curious to know what supplies are required, what to do on very wet days, what kind of risk assessments are performed and the truth of what might actually happen, join this workshop! Belva will support her personal anecdotes and factual information with photos from being in the field.

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Delight! Excite! Inspire! Teach!

Simmy Zaret

Time: 10:30am - 1:30pm | Location: Online | 24 spaces remaining

This fun informative on-line workshop will investigate the essential elements needed to create an exciting, motivating, child-focused learning environment for children of all ages. Through a variety of interactive activities, discussion, and demos, we will zoom in on these critical components, so that you can ignite curiosity, assure understanding, impart practical skills, and heighten the emotional, social, and academic success for the children in your care.

During this two-hour virtual training session, you and other specially trained educators will come together to explore and share ideas pertaining to:

• The Vital Role You Play in the Lives of Those in Your Care

• The Impact Covid has had, in Working With the Children and Your Colleagues

• Piaget’s Stages of Early Childhood Cognitive Development

• Creative Child-Centred Program Planning Strategies

• Presentation Skills that Foster Engagement, Creativity, Fun, and Learning

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Supporting Grieving Children

Dr. Catherine Hajnal & Tara Souch

Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online | 22 spaces remaining

A child’s understanding of loss is tied to their developmental stage. By extension this means they need support in processing and making sense of their loss experiences. A tool we use in our work with bereaved children and families is books. It is important that the child be able to see themselves in the words and images of the book’s content. A book that does not fit a child’s loss experience risks compromising a sense of safety and belonging – both already in jeopardy in the context of loss. In this workshop we’ll explore the relationship among developmental stages, grief responses, signs of distress and support strategies. We’ll also look at ways to choose books to fit with a child’s/youth’s bereavement needs.

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Cedar

Chris Kelly

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm | Location: Archway Community Services ( Jasbir Saran Room ) | 23 spaces remaining

In this workshop we will bring artifacts and samples to share the story of why the Cedar Tree is important to Stolo people. Attendees will weave a cedar heart.

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Building & Maintaining Psychological Wellness in Challenging Times

Carolyn Sinclair

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online | 24 spaces remaining

This session will discuss the importance of self-awareness and being proactive with one's mental health and wellness. The group will discuss challenges and barriers to building and maintaining a healthy work, life balance during challenging times. Understanding how our minds and bodies respond to stress can assist in applying effective strategies that support caring for oneself as well as others.

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