Grants and Contributions:

Empowering Newcomer Women: Building Bright Futures in Early Childhood Education

WP230462

$534,159.00

Sep 5, 2024 - Mar 31, 2026

Throughout this 19-month project, Compass Early Learning and Care (CELC) will scale “Empowering Newcomer Women: Building Bright Futures in Early Childhood Education” to advance women’s economic security and prosperity by supporting viable career paths for newcomer and low-income women, and 2SLGBTQI+ communities working as Early Childcare Educators (ECE's) in centre-based childcare, through systemic change. It will scale the project intersectionally –through engaging with key stakeholders who engage with equity deserving groups, such as newcomer and low-income women, and 2SLGBTQI+ in communities. Specifically, it will address barriers that inhibit low-income and newcomer women, nonbinary, and trans people from engaging in full and meaningful labour market participation as ECE's. To do so, the project will (1) develop hiring and onboarding practices of centre based child care educators through policies and organizational diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI), (2) engage working groups and partners, including municipalities and child care communities, and DEI committees located in Durham and Peterborough to gather information about the intersectionality of the scaled up population; (3) develop resources to identify barriers to education and employment of scaled group of equity deserving ECE’s and incorporate intersectionality; (4) review existing CELC policies, procedures and practices to scale the previously developed practices from the closed project on assessing assumptions and create equitable one and (5) develop sustainability plan to remove barriers and increase stability for ECE's.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Peterborough, Ontario, CA K9H 0K2

001-2024-2025-Q2-00005

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Compass Early Learning and Care

Women's Program

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.