The RisingOaks Early Learning Board of Directors has affirmed support for universally accessible, high quality, non-profit, regulated child care that is affordable for families and includes professional pay and decent work for educators.
As part of this mandate, we'll share information on advocacy campaigns that are working towards that goal.
RisingOaks' Government Relations
Current Issues
- Bill C-35 | An Act Respecting Early Learning and Child Care in Canada
- 2024 CWELCC Funding Formula (Ontario)
- Targeted Growth Strategy for Child Care (Region of Waterloo)
Meeting Summaries
- 2024-05-21 Child Care MPP RoundTable | Topics: Waitlists, CWELCC funding, expansion
- 2023-03-23 Meeting | Topics: Immigration supports for ECEs, Dual Credit Program, CWELCC Implementation and Expansion
Recent Submissions to Government
- 2025-03-06 Letter to Premier Ford re: CWELCC extension
- 2025 Funding Formula Feedback RisingOaks Early Learning (Feb 11/25)
- 2025 Ontario Pre-Budget Consultation Submission (Nov 13/24)
- Feedback Proposed Amendments to O Reg 137 15 (Oct 1/24)
Other
- Letter to WL families with CWELCC update (Oct 11/24)
- Letter to families with CWELCC update (Oct 11/24)
Parent Advocacy: Lend your Voice
- Kitchener-Conestoga, MPP Mike Harris
- Kitchener-Centre, MPP Aislinn Clancy
- Kitchener South Hespeler, MPP Jess Dixon
- Cambridge, MPP Brian Riddell
- Waterloo, MPP Catherine Fife
Advocacy Associations and Campaigns
Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO)
https://www.aeceo.ca/
The AECEO is the professional association for ECEs and its primary purpose is to advocate for respect, recognition and appropriate wages and working conditions for all ECEs.
Current projects
- What's it like to be an ECE?Position Paper and Policy Brief on Publicly Funded Salary Scale (in collaboration with OCBCC)
- Policy Brief 2: Ontario Child Care Funding Formula by Dr. Gordon Cleveland (in collaboration with OCBCC)
- What's it like to be an ECE?
- Recommendations for Creating an Anti-Racist Child Care System in Ontario (in collaboration with OCBCC)
- Road Map to Universal Child Care
- Decent Work Charter
Child Care Now
Child Care Now is dedicated to advocating for a publicly funded, inclusive, quality, non-profit child care system. Our organization is non-profit, membership-based and regionally representative.
Current projects
- Educators Matter: Workforce Policy for Quality Early Learning and Child Care
- Growth By Design
- Canada’s Roadmap to Affordable Child Care for ALL
Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC)
http://www.childcareontario.org/
Ontario’s central advocacy group for a universal early childhood education and care system. We want: low fees or no fees for parents; decent work and pay for educators; and an expansion of public and non-profit services.
Formed in 1981, the OCBCC is a member organization comprising local child care centres, national and provincial groups and individuals from all across Ontario. Our members are educators, parents, grandparents, centre directors and trade unionists.
Current projects
- Protect & Expand $10aDay Child Care
- Parents4ChildCare
- What's it like to be an ECE?
- Position Paper and Policy Brief on Publicly Funded Salary Scale (in collaboration with AECEO)
- Policy Brief 2: Ontario Child Care Funding Formula by Dr. Gordon Cleveland (in collaboration with AECEO)
- Recommendations for Creating an Anti-Racist Child Care System in Ontario (in collaboration with AECEO)
