Teamwork to create daycare places in the west of Avignon
Municipal elected officials,
MRC Avignon, the CPE At the Merry Marmottes, the René-Lévesque School Service Center, the CISSS de la Gaspésie, as well as several community organizations met on Thursday to take stock of two unconventional daycare service projects currently in development.The Government of Quebec recently paved the way for community childcare pilot projects that allow childcare providers to care for toddlers outside their own homes.
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CPE Aux Joyeux Marmottes intends to submit a pilot project here at the end of the month to the Ministry of the Family to create 12 places in the premises of the Municipality of Saint-François-d’Assise. Two leaders worked together with the children.Another similar daycare service could see the light of day inside the Deux-Rivières school in Matapédia. The goal is also to combine the services of two managers and to accommodate 12 babies.
We have to see if the premises correspond to the standards of the Ministère de la Famille, but we don’t think there will be any big issues because the Center de services scolaire already meets high standards.
explains the prefect of the MRC Avignon, Mathieu Lapointe. The School Service Center is very open to working to provide space in their school, he adds. It’s good in Avignon-Ouest, but also for the entire territory of the school service centre.
Research is also going well to find the workforce to operate the two community daycare services.
In Saint-François, on one already two people who could justify and who are advancing in the project
points out Mr. Lapointe. In Matapedia, the CPE working on it, there are already people who have shown their interest.
Although the development of the Matapédia project is less advanced than that of Saint-François-d’Assise, the mayor is optimistic.
” Everyone feels involved in setting up a daycare service: the CISSS, the municipal sector, the CPE. There is a lot of openness and interest in cooperating. »
Meal Partnership
The prefect indicates that discussions are underway to try to find an organization that could ensure the preparation of meals for the children and lighten the task of those responsible for these future childcare services.
the CISSS meal service at CHLSD in Matapédia, so maybe a partnership to provide meals to future childcare services would be possible
says Mathieu Lapointe. All the partners are really in solution mode and are working in this direction.
Mr. Lapointe explains that the preparation of meals, the use of a personal residence to receive the children and the fact of working alone are the main challenges raised by those responsible for daycare services.
Community daycare projects could therefore prove to be a more attractive way to create new daycare places, believes the prefect of Avignon.
Development in Nouvelle and Carleton-sur-Mer
On the side of Carleton-sur-Mer, the premises of the Charles-Dugas municipal hall will be taken by assault from the month of May by toddlers, until the expansion planned for the installation of the
CPE To the merry groundhogs come true.In addition to accelerating the creation of 13 new places, the place will make it possible to relocate the 39 children who already attend the
CPE during the works.In New, the project to create a 34-seat facility, refused this winter by the Ministry of the Family, will be scaled back.
We continue to work on this project to resubmit a project in the hope of having new places
underlines the prefect of Avignon, Mathieu Lapointe. According to the Ministry of the Family, there are 24 places available for Nouvelle, so we are going to resubmit a project to install 24 places.
Although the
CPE To the merry brats who believe that the real needs are higher, the prefect believes that it is perhaps wiser to present a project that is in line with the ministerial calculations.The places that were recently allocated in Quebec really corresponded to the needs calculated by the ministry, is that why the Nouvelle project was refused?
asked Mathieu Lapointe. We will never know, but if we want to put all the chances on our side, we will go with the number of places that Quebec allocates us to be able to advance.