Early Years Support Services Registry

Strengthens early learning and child care educators’ capacity to engage in inclusive practices for children with special needs, from birth to age 13, who attend a licensed child care program within York Region. Services are offered primarily within the Early Learning and Child Care setting and include:

• A Routines-Based Model of Intervention
• Child development screening
• Development of Individual Program Plans for children
• Collaborative consultation visits with early learning and child care educators to promote inclusive practices
• Coaching educators to implement goals and strategies that teach children new skills and promote development
• Adaptation of the classroom environment to include all children within the program
• Service coordination activities for families (such as referrals to community agencies)
• Transition to school support
• Providing professional development and capacity building opportunities for early learning and child care staff/educators to promote best practices in inclusion

Supports families who have infants and young children from birth to school entry who have been diagnosed with, or are at risk of having a developmental delay.

Services are offered primarily at home or in community settings and York Region offices and include:

• Home visits with families
• Routines-based interview to determine areas of needs
• Child development screening and assessment
• Family service plans
• Coaching parents to support their children’s participation in all aspects of daily life
• Neonatal follow-up clinics for children born prematurely. (Neonatal follow-up clinics require a doctor’s referral)
• Developmental monitoring for children at risk of delays
• Activities and play groups that teach children new skills and promote development
• Workshops and support groups for parents and caregivers
• Referrals to community agencies
• Transition to school support