A new daycare that incorporates trauma counselling for immigrant and refugee children in Victoria is among projects that will receive a share of $33 million in funding for new licensed child care spaces in British Columbia. The Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society's planned daycare for 28 infants and children, in partnership with Family Services of Victoria, is among the projects eligible for provincial funding to create 948 new child-care spaces in Victoria and Vancouver Island communities stretching from Ucluelet to Campbell River. With help from the $371,173 in provincial funding, Lau said, "we're hoping to build a trauma-informed daycare service." However, the community will still have a gap in infant and toddler care spaces. Minister of Children and Family Development Katrine Conroy, with expectations that all of them will open within one to two years.

Source: CBC News December 06, 2017 04:18 UTC