Who we are
Family and Child Care Connections is a community-based, non-profit family resource centre located in St. John’s, NL. Our legal (incorporated) name is CUPW Family Resource Centre Ltd. We provide programs and services designed to support community children, their families, members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and child care providers.

Family and Child Care Connections is a project of the CUPW Child Care Fund and the National Child Benefit Re-Investment Fund with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. For more information about the CUPW Child Care Fund, please click here.

Our vision
We believe that quality early learning and child care should be accessible, available and affordable to all.

Family and Child Care Connections believes that quality early learning and family child care is achieved by responding appropriately to the physical, social, intellectual and emotional needs of each child. Quality child care is the combination of positive personal relationships between the provider, the children and their parents.

Our goals and objectives

Goal
To make quality child care choices accessible, available and affordable.

Objectives:

1. To develop a process for screening family child care providers according to the child Care Services legislation of Newfoundland and Labrador.
2. To help parents find appropriate and suitable family child care for their children.
3. To monitor family child care homes with respect to health, safety and development of the children in care.
4. To provide subsidies to CUPW members using agency-approved family child care providers or not-for-profit licensed child care facilities.

Goal
To provide programmes and services that educate people about quality family child care and to increase access to quality family child care to parents and families, including CUPW members.

Objectives:

1. To provide books and other information on child development and child care.
2. To offer workshops and courses on child development and child care issues.
3. To provide toys and equipment which are suitable for pre-school age children.
4. To provide opportunities for communication, socialization and excellent child care role models.