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and technical difficulties are constant. This website
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Our Objectives
- To promote the optimal care and well being of children
- To encourage and develop a recognition of the importance of child
care being provided within the home by a parent
How to Help
You can help in the following ways:
- Become a member of Kids First if you agree with our purposes. It's
free. Send us you full name, address, area code, phone number and e-mail
address. Members recieve e-mail updates and notices of events.
- To recieve updates without becoming a member, SUBSCRIBE to Kids First News to receive Kids First updates about
once a month.
- Make a donation to Kids First Parent Association of Canada and
receive a receipt for income tax purposes. We have no paid staff.
Funding for the organization helps us continue our research work and
dissemination of information. Make the cheque out to Kids First Parent
Association of Canada, and mail it to
Mary Lum, Treasurer
Kids First
5334 Parker St
Burnaby, BC
V5B 1Z7 Unlike daycare lobbyists, we are not funded by
government, corporations and unions.
- MEET with or WRITE a letter to politicians:
Federal Government
A
list of Members of Parliament is available online. You can also
phone
1-800-O-CANADA toll free for the information.
Provincial Government
Check the phone book for the ministry responsible for child care,
women's and children's issues.
Local Government
Check the phone book. Many cities also subsidize daycare and not parental
child care.
- WRITE a letter to the editor.
- PHONE a radio or TV station.
- BE INFORMED and share information. Read our in-depth report, "Daycare Fact & Fiction, Ideology & Agendas," available
as a pdf document.
- ORGANIZE a group in your area to discuss these issues, or discuss
this at your school, social group, family drop-in, cultural or religious
organization.
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