Operating a Child Care Business

Fostering Brant’s Growth is a tool designed for self-assessment, reflection and goal building, reflecting the foundations of the How Does Learning Happen Pedagogy.

Community Living Brant EarlyON leads the tool and staff are available to support the assessment and goal setting process, providing guidance, strategies, coaching and workshops.

Fostering Brant’s Growth is available from Community Living Brant at no cost to all CWELCC licensed care cares and EarlyONs. While all licensed child cares are required to have a quality improvement program, participation in Fostering Brant’s Growth is voluntary.

Professional development workshops and training are available free of charge to all CWELCC licensed care cares and EarlyON providers with a service agreement with the City of Brantford including access to the Professional Learning Hub, Brant Learn and the Learning Hub Library.

The Ministry of Education provides professional learning funding to allow all CWELCC licensed child care and EarlyON educators to participate in one paid professional development day per year. The goal of the professional learning day is to improve recruitment and retention and build the capacity of the early years and child care sector to support the provision of high-quality programs that align with How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years. Implementation may vary from year to year.

• Free access to a library of professional learning webinars
• Available to all child care operators and the public
• Accessible on-demand at your convenience

Professional Learning Hub website

• Free bi-monthly networking and information-sharing sessions
• Open to all licensed child care supervisors and operators
• Opportunities to connect with sector peers, discuss emerging issues, and learn about community resources

• Free recruitment resource for licensed child care programs
• Post employment opportunities and connect with prospective early learning professionals

• Professional learning workshops delivered at your child care site
• Available to non-CWELCC licensed child care programs on a fee-for-service basis
• Topics designed to support staff development and program quality

The Learning Hub at 30 Bell Lane is a resource library accessed through a paid membership. Membership provides access to the toy lending library as well as specialized equipment such as laminators, die press and Sizzix equipment, photo / colour copier, bookbinding machines, computer/internet access/Boardmarker and Picture communication program. Some additional fees may apply to certain equipment. The Learning Library is open to all with a paid membership.

The Messiness of Parenting features local parents sharing their experiences, finding comfort in common challenges, and discovering practical tips and innovative ideas for navigating parenthood. The Messiness of Parenting is available free to the public on most podcast platforms.

Non-CWELCC licensed child care programs have the option to have a service agreement with the City of Brantford that will provide them with access to the OneList Waitlist at no cost.

Please note that the OneList Waitlist is expected to be replaced by a Provincial Child Care Search site, with implementation tentatively scheduled for Fall 2027.