New Brunswick’s integrated Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDC) model combines regulated child care, education, family and community health services into a single, accessible program designed to meet the needs of children and their families from the prenatal period through to the transition to elementary school. The three-year pilot project, a...
Reports
October 2013Jimmy Pratt Foundation The Jimmy Pratt Foundation, in partnership with the Wallace and Margaret McCain Family Foundation Inc., has been endeavouring to identify the ideal environment through a series of public discussions over the last year.In October 2013, the two groups released a discussion paper, The Early Years Last a...
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - September 4, 2013 This report is the result of the first year's evaluation of Prince Edward Island's Preschool Excellence Initiative - a comprehensive 5 year plan to build a provincial early childhood system for children from infancy to kindergarten. The system's emphasis is on building...