Would you like to be part of a local Community of Practice working with the AECEO and our partners to build an ECE led movement for change in the early childhood sector? Join Olivia Chow and AECEO Coordinator Lyndsay Macdonald for our workshop Building ECE Power for Change!

This workshop will strengthen capacity of the Early Years Coalition - Thunder Bay Community of Practice and provide further training and mentorship to both existing and new participants who want to be active in the movement.

Participants will learn:

• How to bring in more supporters and volunteers
• How to build and maintain an effective (and fun) team
• How to use your story to engage with politicians, political candidates and voters 
• How to advocate for change in the early childhood sector during the upcoming provincial election

When:

Saturday, April 21st 2018 

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Registration and coffee at 9:45 a.m.

Lunch will be provided 

About the AECEO's Professional Pay & Decent Work Campaign 

Since 2013 the AECEO's Professional Pay & Decent Work Campaign has been successfully engaging and organizing hundreds of RECEs, early years staff, parents and community members in Ontario to advocate for all children and families to have access to quality affordable early years and child care programs where RECEs and staff are well-supported with professional pay and decent work. The overarching goal of this campaign is to build and sustain an ECE led movement for decent work. The campaign is a project funded by the Atkinson Foundation Decent Work Fund. Our project partners include the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC), Institute for Change Leaders (ICL) and Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development.