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Rob got my attention this past week with the very interesting consulting work he is doing with KETC, Channel 9 in St. Lois to reduce the impact of the mortgage/housing/credit crisis that it hitting this area. This is a very innovative project that has huge potential to save not only individual family homes but the social fabric of the very communities that this crisis is hitting hard. Have a look…a very cool combination of the use of social media tools, community resource mapping, good ideas and public television leadership. I look forward to hearing more as this project unfolds.

As my regular readers know, (Context in the link) I am working with KETC, Channel 9 in St Louis on a project funded by CPB, to see how a Public TV station could use its position as a Trusted Space, rather than simply as a broadcaster, to make a difference in the "economic forest fire" that is the mortgage/housing /credit crisis that is sweeping through America.

It is the hope of CPB that Public Media can do more to serve its country than offer great content alone. It is our collective hope that by learning how to do what we are doing now well, that Public TV and Radio can serve the public by acting as a convener of Trust for the community – so that we can draw on the great and latent power that resides in all local communities to take action themselves to solve the great problems that confront us.

Our hope is that our one station in one city can offer enough experience that in the fall many more can join in the work and that soon we may have a national effort underway.

From the Child Care Resource and Research Unit this week:

Building a strong and equal partnership between childcare and early childhood education in Canada

Split early childhood education and childcare systems (ECEC) have historically been a common phenomenon, but today many countries are moving towards more coherent approaches to ECEC. Canada, however, has continued to maintain a divided ECEC situation. Reviewing Canada’s ECEC in 2004, the OECD suggested that greater integration of kindergarten and childcare would bring real advantages. In 2007, Ontario, Canada’s largest province, began to develop integrated “full-day early learning” for all four and five year olds. In the initial phase, several key challenges have emerged: first, merging the public kindergarten system with market-driven childcare; second, financing the new program; third, maintaining stability in user-pay childcare as four and five year olds move to the new program; fourth, determining staffing models, bridging differences between kindergarten and childcare staff; and fifth, managing the phase-in. How Ontario meets these challenges will have major implications for the future of ECEC programs across Canada.

This article is published in the International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education (KICCE). KICCE is a Korean national research institute established with an integrative and systematic approach to policy research on early childhood care and education.

Be ready for success: A 10 year early childhood strategy for New Brunswick

In the first year, several new investments will be made as part of Early Childhood Strategy Action Plan, 2008-2009, including:

• an increase in child-care subsidies for low-income parents;
• increased funding to support the recruitment and retention of specialized personnel who provide services to preschool children with autism spectrum disorders;
• increased funding for integrated daycare and early intervention services for at-risk preschool children;
• enhanced day-care support for families leaving social assistance for paid employment, or making the transition to work;
• hiring eight new community-based early learning specialists to provide guidance and support to regulated child-care facilities, preschool programs, family resource centres and parents with young children;
• new funding for family resource centres working with at-risk children and families to expand outreach services and increase parenting programs and services;
• increased funding to support special-needs children who require a support worker while attending a child-care facility;
• an increase in wages for regulated child-care staff to build on previous wage enhancements;
• implementation of an early childhood development community mapping model to provide government and communities with information to identify needs, to service gaps, and to assess the effectiveness of programs and services; and
• build on the existing public awareness campaign on the benefits of quality child-care and early learning experiences for preschool children.

In addition, a $13.7-million Early Learning and Child Care Trust Fund has been established to provide training for child-care workers, develop and implement a new early learning and child-care curriculum, and provide financial incentives for the creation of new child-care spaces in the province.

A new early learning and child-care curriculum will also be implemented in all regulated child-care facilities in New Brunswick by September 2009. The French and English experience-based curriculum was developed by the University of New Brunswick and the Université de Moncton.

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An innovative attempt to change the direction of an “economic forest fire”

Updates from Ontario and New Brunswick in Child Care News