Research guides: ELC: Early Learning and Care: Websites

Organizations & Associations

Baby's Best Chance/ Toddler's First Steps
BC government produced reference guides for parents and caregivers of children birth to six months and between the ages of 6 months and 36 months (3 years) of age. These guides provide trusted information on how to nurture the healthy development of your child.

Victoria Child Care Resources and Referrals
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
Information, referrals, training and resources.
Human Early Learning Partnership
An interdisciplinary research network from British Columbia's six major universities.
Child Care in BC
B.C. Government page with links to policy and information.
Childcare Resource and Research Unit
From the University of Toronto. Reports, research papers, briefing notes and more
Canadian Council on Social Development
CCSD is a non-partisan, not-for-profit, evidence-based organization that partners and collaborates with all sectors (not-for-profit, philanthropic, government and business) and communities to advance solutions to today’s toughest social challenges.
Canadian Child Care Federation
Canadian Child Care Federation is committed to best practice in early childhood education.
Child Care Now
Child Care Now is dedicated to advocating for a publicly funded, inclusive, quality, non-profit child care system in Canada. Our organization is non-profit, membership-based and regionally representative.

Early learning and child care: How does Canada measure up?
From the Childcare Resource and Research Unit, University of Toronto. (2006)

The B.C. Atlas of Child Development (pdf)
Presents a visual summary of early child development trends in BC.

NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD)
From the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Child Care Human Resources Sector Council
The Child Care Human Resources Sector Council (CCHRSC) operated from 2003 – 2013. It was the only pan-Canadian organization dedicated to moving forward on human resources (HR) issues in Canada’s early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector.