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The Canadian government wants to make it easier for working parents to find affordable child care, and it's putting its money where its mouth is.
The University of British Columbia will receive $239,765 over 24 months for a project called Professional Development for Indigenous Workers Through an Indigenous Massive Open Online Course, which aims to provide early childhood educators with training on how to incorporate Indigenous perspectives, worldviews, and pedagogies into early learning and child care, the CBC reports.
"The goal is that by widely offering this free online training across Canada, more ECEs will have these critical skills," the government says in a press release.
"This means that more Indigenous families and children will have access to affordable, culturally appropriate early learning and child care."
The government is also providing $241,105 over 24 months to support the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC's project, Exploring the provision of flexible child care within BC's new universal child care system, effective March 1, 2023.
The project will be conducting research by gathering knowledge, reviewing existing methodologies and tools, assessing child care operating models, and reporting on the needs for flexible child care options as an innovative approach to better support families working non-standard hours in British Columbia.
"This research aims to address the
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