10.2 Capacity Building Funding

POLICY 

The Manitoulin-Sudbury DSB will provide Capacity Building funding to approved non-profit child care service providers in order to support professional learning and development opportunities that build the capacity of licensees, supervisor, programs staff/caregivers, home visitors, home child care providers and non- profit volunteer board members to support the provision of high quality programs for children.
 

PROCEDURE

Capacity Building funding will be calculated based on the following:

• An amount of funding will be designated for each FTE and multiplied by the total number of FTE’s employed at a child care 
• The Manitoulin-Sudbury DSB reserves the right to adjust the amount of funds designated to each FTE based on funding pressures and service targets. 
• Based on pressures and available funds, the DSB may continue to consider one-time funding requests. 
• The DSB supports the development of a professional development committee which will ensure quality programming in line with How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years. A professional development committee shall consist of representation from each operator to ensure consistent, efficient, and accountable planning. The DSB supports the existence of a professional development committee that will ensure programming will not be done in silos and so that operators might come together for the strategic planning of capacity building activities. 
• Based on pressures and available funds, the DSB may consider one-time funding requests from the professional development committee. 

The Manitoulin- Sudbury DSB as an approved child care delivery agent shall:

• Recover unused funds from service
• Meet service targets before reallocating funds to other child care programming.