Ontario Early Years Centres support healthy child development across all families. Centres provide literacy-rich places for children from birth to 6 years of age to come play and learn with their parents or caregivers.
Parents and caregivers can get answers to questions about child development; nutrition, parenting, pregnancy and can connect to a range of professionals and other services in their community.
Ontario Early Years Centres are staffed by early childhood professionals. We offer free neighbourhood-based services that include:
- Play-based, interactive literacy and numeracy learning
- Kindergarten Readiness programs
- Ongoing access to early childhood professionals
- Connections to other parents or caregivers in the community
- Breastfeeding information, support and referrals
- Opportunities to develop skills or new knowledge about parenting and healthy child development
- Access to speech and language or other specialists
- Support for early identification and inclusion of children with special needs
- Links to a diverse group of child-serving agencies across the City
