Early Childhood Development

PERTH-ANDOVER, NB, April 3, 2012 /CNW/ - The Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation is contributing $25,000 to help young children heal following last month's devastating floods.

"The Future Footprints Early Learning Centre has a critical role to play in helping preschool children understand the disaster and to feel the solace and security of their community," says the Foundation's chair, the Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain.

The funding will be used to re-establish the early learning and child care centre in the elementary school and to provide temporary accommodations for the program until the necessary school repairs are made ...

Des innovateurs communautaires se réunissent afin d’améliorer l’offre de services à la petite enfance

Community innovators meet to develop better ways of delivering early childhood services to families

November 24, 2010

FREDERICTON, NB – How to best meet the early learning and child care needs of families with young children will be the topic of a day-long workshop being held in Fredericton, Nov. 25, 2010.

Participants are part of the Early Childhood Development Centre initiative supported by the provincial government and the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation (MWMFF).

“Investing in high quality early learning and child care builds ...

Remarks by Carol Loughrey, board member Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation at the event in Carlton County, New Brunswick marking the Foundation-Government partnership supporting the development of five new integrated children’s centres.

Mrs. McCain sends her greetings and apologies that she can’t be with us today. The Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation is pleased to be part of this important and exciting initiative.

Ours is an activist foundation. Our goal is to support and inform public policy: to complement the work of governments and communities – not to replace their role. As both a new foundation and ...

Développement de cinq sites de démonstration pour le développement de la petite enfance

MWMFF Partners with Government of New Brunswick

FREDERICTON (CNB) - Cinq sites de démonstration de centres de développement de la petite enfance sont actuellement en cours de développement dans le cadre d'un projet pilote de trois ans visant à fournir des services intégrés et un soutien aux jeunes enfants et à leurs parents, a annoncé aujourd'hui le ministre du Développement social, Kelly Lamrock.

Les sites de Centreville, Keswick, Millville, Perth-Andover et Richibucto bénéficieront de subventions de départ de la Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation. Ils ...

Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation partner with Government of New Brunswick to demonstrate integrate children’s centres

Développement de cinq sites de démonstration pour le développement de la petite enfance

FREDERICTON (CNB) – Five new early childhood development centre demonstration sites are being developed in Centreville, Keswick, Millville, Perth-Andover and Richibucto as part of a three-year pilot project to provide integrated services and supports for young children and their parents, Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock announced today.

These demonstration sites are receiving start-up grants from the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation and are in addition to the four government-funded ...