Newcomer Employment Hub Child Care Project
The Manitoba government, in partnership with The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, is making fully subsidized child care spaces available to newcomers who are taking part in the Newcomer Employment Hub
The Newcomer Employment Hub is an innovative online job tool offered by The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce that creates quality job matches between newcomer jobseekers and Manitoba employers. The free online platform uses advanced technology to create quality, long-lasting connections between employers and newcomer jobseekers in Manitoba
Child Care Project
The child care project provides guaranteed infant and preschool child care spaces dedicated to Newcomer Employment Hub participants who are attending employment training, seeking employment, or are newly employed.
Fully subsidized child care spaces will be available to families for up to 12 months. This will reduce barriers such as access and affordability, giving newcomer participants time to establish themselves in their jobs or focus on employment-related training without having to manage the burden of searching and paying for child care.
Under the Phase 1, a total of 32 guaranteed child care spaces were dedicated to the project in the following three Winnipeg child care centres:
Freight House - IRCOM location
Freight House - Ross location
Little Voyageurs Learning Centre
Expression of Interest – Newcomer Employment Hub Child Care Project, Phase 2 Expansion
As part of Manitoba’s commitment to diverse, inclusive, affordable and accessible child care services, the department is seeking to support an additional 36 fully subsidized child care spaces for newcomers taking part in the Newcomer Employment Hub.
Selected child care centres will be provided with grant funding to support the full subsidization of the child care spaces and cover the maximum daily fee portion of revenue regardless of utilization.
The grant funding may also include start-up, capital, and operating costs, as outlined by Child Care Regulations, to support the development of new child care spaces dedicated for newcomers who are taking part in the Newcomer Employment Hub.
The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce will provide training to help integrate selected child care centres to the child care pilot. Training includes information on the Newcomer Employment Hub and on the child care application process.
The Early and Learning Child Care Division invites licensed non-profit child care centres that serve newcomer families and support newcomer service agencies, to participate in the Newcomer Employment Hub Child Care Project by submitting an Expression of Interest to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Learning.
The Newcomer Employment Hub Child Care Project - Expression of Interest - Now Closed
For more information contact:
Newcomer Employment Hub – Child Care Project
Attention: Diversity and Inclusion Unit
Early Learning and Child Care Division
Department of Education and Early Childhood Learning
210-114 Garry St
Winnipeg, MB R3C 4V4
Fax: 204-948-2625
ELCC-ISP@gov.mb.ca
Early Learning and Child Care will contact selected centres to confirm their acceptance before March 31, 2023.