08/23/2023
Good morning parents,
As many of you know our program works with many different families. We work with parents and their children, many of whom have health and development diagnosis’ that require extra assistance. This is why our Centre has lower ratios then almost every other child Care Centre in HRM.
In order to continue this level of support our Centre must depend upon donations to help us offer extra support in the classrooms to help children work on development goals, eating plans, mobility and social challenges. As a charitable non-profit program, we depend on our parents and communities to help with fundraising so we can continue offering such a high level of support for the children who need it.
For example we have many children with special eating needs and we can have two staff working with a single child to have an adult prompting and an adult helping them with a response. We might have a child who needs help working with peers and so break children out in pairs to practice their communication. Programs like this can only happen with support so we can have the staff on hand to do them outside of the regular ratios.
Did you know that regular ratios for toddlers are 1 teacher to 6 toddlers, and 1 teacher to 8 preschoolers? We strive to offer 1:3 or 1:4 to give a very enhanced ratio, sometimes doing 1:2, but this is only possible with community support.
We are asking parents to share this in any way they can over the next 30-45 days so we can try to raise as many funds as possible. We chose this number as that is roughly the amount a minimum wage staff, not even a levelled staff, would earn in a single year. Please share it wherever you can, on whatever medias you can and explain why programs like ours are so important. If your work places want to help maybe they can do something to raise funds like a bake sale or a casual day, every donation is appreciated.
We are one of the few Centre’s not experiencing staffing shortages, in fact we have people asking to work here because they see the power of the work we do. Unfortunately the world often misses crucial programs like this because they are not in the public eye, its our chance to change that!
IF you can donate, or know anyone who can, please ask them to click the link to see what a dedicated community, even a small one, can do.
https://gofund.me/39fdc827
Thanks so much,
Sincerely,
Jennifer
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