Corine Nominated for CCCF Award of Excellence
April 29, 2009
Corine Ferguson, Executive Director of ARCQE was recently nominated for the CCCF Award of Excellence in Child Care and will be highlighted at the upcoming CCCF Conference in Manitoba as well as in the fall issue of Interaction Magazine. She has been recognized by the committee as a leader who has made outstanding contributions to child care in Canada.
Corine is truly a pioneer in this new era of project initiatives and creative thinking related to Early Learning and Child Care in Canada. Her most recent role demonstrating her passion to support quality child care is leading a team of dedicated professionals in their roles to provide technical assistance to child care programs that are involved in the process of accreditation. Corine has drawn on empirical research and emerging practices to build services and recruit staff that provide front-line support to a variety of care child, family child care, out of school care, preschools and governing administrators. Congratulations Corine on continuing to make a difference to professionals and families involved in Early Learning and Care.
Agency Passports
April 8, 2009
Coaches often note feedback from the sector regarding the need for evidence to further support program portfolios, and/or to inform annual reporting requirements for those involved in accreditation. While professional passports introduced years ago serve to provide a mechanism to track individual milestones and accomplishments there is little currently available to showcase collective efforts as an agency and commitment in meeting standards of excellence externally to community and stakeholders.
As a means of helping agencies highlight their achievements and profile their successes ARCQE is now pleased to introduce Agency Passports which will enable programs to display certificates which will be issued by ARCQE for all contracted services and resources procured as part of an agency’s continuous quality improvement strategies! This 5x7 Passport is a wonderful “at a glance” addition to any parent corner, a portable update that can be utilized to inform and share milestones at Board meetings, community/conference displays, or to promote your agency to potential staff at job fairs etc… at the end of each year, this information can then be transferred to your accreditation portfolio as a supplement to your annual reporting requirements!
To order one for your agency click here.
Support with Out-of-School Care Accreditation
April 8, 2009
ARCQE is pleased to share that we have been engaged formally to provide support & service to the Out-of-School Care community working towards accreditation. Similarly to services provided to Child Care, this will include assistance to programs in the following areas:
- Standards Checklists & review
- Support with writing a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
- Procuring evidence for the agency Portfolio
Programs are eligible for a number of sponsored hours in achieving the pre-accreditation steps as identified above once formally enrolled to the accreditation program. Upon registration, ARCQE will assign a Coach who will contact eligible programs to provide further information about services that will be available. ARCQE also offers an array of additional services to support and reinforce the three broad program areas by which agencies’ are rated providing services, mentoring and reports relative to:
- Daily Planned Experiences & Interactions
- Administration &,
- Facility
Please note: ARCQE is also available to provide support to OOSC programs outside of accreditation process who wish to procure any of its services on a fee for service basis.