Turning Points - Child Care in Toronto

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In this issue of Turning Points,
YWCA Toronto looks at the need
for affordable, flexible
child care for women
and their families.

CHILD CARE

IN TORONTO

Fingers crossed that her child's name has finally come up, mothers of the 16,802 children in Toronto currently on a waiting list for subsidized child care make a weekly call, hoping against the odds that their child has been accepted for affordable child care.

For every child in one of the 62,336 licenced child care spaces in Toronto, there are four children on a waiting list.

With their children in child care, women can get back to work, upgrade their skills or advance their education. But the odds she'll hear that a space has opened up for her child are slim since the City can only provide 19% of the child care spaces needed for Toronto's children. Read more [...]

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INFOGRAPHIC

YWCA Toronto has a look at Child Care: Is it working
for women?

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CHILD CARE

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO ADVANCE
THE MOVEMENT

JOIN OUR ON-LINE MOVEMENT. Share our child care article and infographic with your social networks and tag the women in your life to ask for their thoughts.

PAY IT FORWARD . Make a gift to YWCA Toronto

to help us continue to offer child care services and systemic advocacy for affordable and flexible child care for women in Toronto.

VOTE CHILD CARE 2015. Join the Coalition for Better Child Care's Vote Child Care campaign to ensure women have adequate child care support for their families.

Heather McGregor

We are so proud that Social Planning Toronto selected our CEO, Heather McGregor, as winner of this year's Frances Lankin Award. The award is given annually to an inspired leader who has made a significant, sustained contribution to the non-profit community sector in the City of Toronto.

Tonika Morgan

2005 YWCA Toronto Young Woman of Distinction and former 1st Stop Woodlawn shelter resident, Tonika Morgan, is going to Harvard University to pursue a Masters of Education.

Congratulations from all of us at YWCA Toronto.

YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction Awards 2015

What an amazing night!

Thank you to this year's YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction Award recipients, our visionary sponsors, and of course our guests for an uplifting celebration of the work being done to improve the lives of women and girls in this city, and around the world.