Mothers Matter Canada (MMC)

Published purpose

Through this 33-month systemic change project, Mothers Matter Center will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within the existing system of traditional methods of skills and experience recognition, which can be inefficient and create inequalities, and enables testing an innovative, equitable and inclusive alternate model. The project will do this by piloting a barrier-free path for newcomer and low-income women to receive an Early Childhood Education (ECE) Diploma and to become employed as an early childhood educator (level II) through a partnership with Red River College Polytech (RRC), Vametric, and Home Visitors (HV) at various HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Pre-School Youngsters) partner sites across Canada. The HVs will receive on-the-job training working as paraprofessionals in the HIPPY program, employer-provided and MMC-provided professional development training. MMC will facilitate the external evaluation and document the model. Based on evaluation findings and recommendations, MMC will develop resources for scale-up and dissemination.