Child Care Resource Consultant Services

Description:

Community Living Kingston has traveled a generation since providing an accepted and quality segregated pre-school called Peter Pan. This shift in the late 1980's to inclusion for pre-schoolers has not only improved their experiences and life, but has also had an impact on inclusion in the school system. Parents seeing their daughter or son in an inclusive day care or nursery school would not then settle for anything less than the same when the child entered the school system. Today's services for pre-schoolers with developmental delays encompass supports by a Resource Consultant in the child's neighborhood pre-school setting. Services are designed to see to it that each child is given an equal opportunity to learn according to their needs. Our Resource Consultants assist the regular caregivers and staff to modify existing programs in order to meet the requirements of children with special needs while including them in everyday activities. Resource Consultants coordinate the intervention of other professionals as warranted and assist in the transition to kindergarten. They also provide support to families by providing information and service coordination.

Mandate

To support children from age zero to 12 years who face functional barriers in one or more of the following areas of development: physical, social, emotional, communicational, intellectual, and behavioural. Support is also provided to children who have increased vulnerability to environmental stresses, including those related to family, social, economic and cultural circumstances.

Guiding Principles

• That children have the right to participate in a licensed community childcare program of the family�s choosing;
• That families have access to the information specific to their needs;
• That children have an individual program plan designed to respond to their unique needs;

Resource Consultants will�

• Facilitate the inclusion of special needs children and their participation in licensed childcare programs;
• Provide support to families including information, visits, consultation and service coordination;
• Consult with community childcare programs including resources, programming suggestions and modeling for staff;
• Link to community services and resources by providing information, service coordination and transitional planning;
• Plan for transition to elementary school in collaboration with the family;
• Provide resources from the Community Living resource lending library;
• Provide training and professional development to assist community childcare curricula and environments.

2009* CCRCS Satisfaction Survey Results
*Survey administered December 2008

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