Child Care Pilot Project

Responsibilities of the Communities

Request for Proposals from Minority Francophone Communities Background Benefits for Communities Guiding Principles for the Pilot Project Enriched Child Care Services Scope of the Pilot Project Responsibilities of Project Manager Responsibilities of the Communities Criteria Application Instructions Evaluation Process Annex A - Evaluation Criteria for the Letter of Intent Annex B - Template for the Letter of Intent Annex C - Organization Chart for a Community

To ensure that the role of the community is known and clearly defined, the following is a list of the responsibilities that the community must assume:

• The community must provide an existing and appropriate place for the delivery of the enriched child care services, pay the associated costs (rent, insurance, employee salaries), and obtain the licences required to operate the child care services;
  
  
• The community must provide the staff that will provide the child care services;
  
  
• The community must provide the materials, such as the furnishings required for the child care services;
  
  
• The community, or the program group parents, must pay the child care fees and other costs (e.g., meals, transportation) associated with the child care services of the program group;
  
  
• The key stakeholders identified in this request for proposals (the champion, the association of community partners in early childhood development, and the applicant organization) must establish mechanisms for ongoing communication and hold regular meetings with the community coordinator and the project manager;
  
  
• The community, assisted by the project manager, must draw up a list of three-year-old Francophone children living in the community; and
  
  
• The community must assist the project manager in communicating with the parents of the three-year-old Francophone children to inform them of the pilot project, and of its methodology and its implementation.
  
  

In addition, the community should encourage communications and partnerships in the field of early childhood development, both within and outside of its community, to make use of the results of the pilot project.