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This file contains correspondence with MPP Shelley Wark-Martin and lobby efforts; newsletters of OCFBCC - Child Care Challenge and The Canadian Day Care Advocacy Association -Vision; with update/action summary. Also included is a series of letters thanking NWORDCC for their advocacy work and participation.

This file contains correspondence from the NWORDCC with letters to advocate for child care; events planning; grant updates; presentation reports; and legislative correspondence. Information about "indirect subsidy"; promotion of non-profit childcare services; network actions; and regional grants is included in the file.

This file contains information about Provincial plans to transfer services and costs for certain programs to a local level. Included in the file is a copy of the proposal to create a District Social Services Administration Board; correspondence regarding the changes to the delivery of child care at a municipal level; research and advocacy documents from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; NWORCCC correspondence with elected officials representing child care organizations; analysis of destructing with meeting notes, contact information of Thunder Bay City Council, fax transmission records in network, briefs presented by the OCBCC to the Government of Ontario.

This file contains information about the Thunder Bay Day of Action for Child Care on April 28th 1997. Included in the file are fact sheets; planning notes; information for The Children's Committee Family Drop-in and update; and Information Fair correspondence.

This file contains information about the Kids Vote Campaign for electoral candidates; child care information flyers for voters; advocate sign-up sheets; and Municipal Election Kit 1997 by the OCBCC.

This file contains information about the Liberal Task Force Thunder Bay Hearings for feedback on children's services and the Communities Together for Children conference. Included is the agenda; correspondence for community focus; planning information.

This file contains information about Thunder Bay Child Care Advisory Committee work for the years 1992 and 1993. Included in the file is information about child care subsidies and subsidy management policy; terms of reference for Committee; Memorandum and minutes of meetings; administrative report summaries for the Social Services Department; correspondence and research notes for Child Care Advocacy in the City of Thunder Bay; and submission from Thunder Bay Advocates for Quality Child Care. A copy of The City of Thunder Bay Social Services Department "The Private- Home Day Care Program Section III-Information for the Provider" is also included in the file.

This file contains information about the "Municipal Workshop" to focus on sharing Ministry of Community and Social Services guidelines, identify concerns, and determine action about child care per diems in municipally operated child care centres. Included in the file is correspondence with Ministry of Community and Social Services, NWORDCC, day care centres; the municipal workshop attendee list; fee schedules; a copy of "Northwestern Ontario Regional Day Care Committee Report on Northwestern Ontario Day Care Services June 1987"; and a copy of "Brief to the Honourable John Sweeney, M.P.P. Minister of Community and Social Services October 1986". Research and planning notes are also in the file.

This file contains an edited draft copy of "North Region Child Care Planning Framework" presented to the Child Care Steering Committee; and a listing for the subsidized child care spaces with funding allocation for North.

This file contains information from the Advisory Council regarding the status of child care provided by the city of Thunder Bay. Included in the file are pamphlets for child care centres in the city; fees cards for private day cares; correspondence for the Child Care Advisory for the City of Thunder Bay with minutes and resolutions; and Administrative Report Summaries for Social Services/Community Services. The planning notes of NWORDCC representative Margaret Phillips, Community member for the Child Care Advisory Committee, are also included in the file.

This file contains personal and organizational correspondence with the Northern Women's Centre regarding day care staffing, concerns, advisory, and advocacy. Included in the file is "A Brief to Mayor Saul Laskin of the Corporation of the City of Port Arthur and Mayor Ernest H. Reed of the Corporation of the City of Fort William for the establishment of Public Day Care Centres"(1967), The Lakehead Social Planning Council Family and Child Welfare Committee; "The Case for Universal Day Care", Leslie Anne Towers and Barbara Cameron, Thunder Bay Region Anti-Poverty Organization Coalition. Recommendations, letters to Prime Minister Trudeau, child care survey, and "Child Care Study", Lakehead Social Planning Council 1974 are included in the file.

This file contains a copy of Education Funding in Ontario with Recalculation of Enrollment from The Ministry of Education.

This file contains information about education funding in Ontario including legislative grants information from the Northwestern Ontario Region; Isolate Board Funding; discussion with Margaret Phillips; research notes; and a copy of the "Weighting Factor Research Project".

This file contains information about the Funding Advisory Committee for the Child Care Branch, Ministry of Community and Social Services.Included is the listing of members; reports with recommendations; meeting correspondence; NWORDD updates; minutes; and overview background information with planning notes.

This file contains legislative information from government resources about reforms to child care. Included in the file is a copy of the House of Commons Debates to move for a suggested child protection commission, by Ms. Joy Logan M.P.; publications from Iain Angus M.P., Communiqué The New Democrats, Ministry of Community and Social Services, Ministry of Health, and Minister Responsible for Women's Issues;and the Year-End Report 1988-89 from The Ontario Women's Directorate.

This file contains information about Children's welfare in Canada including: Metro Campaign 2000 "Child Poverty in Metropolitan Toronto Report Card 1996", Child Poverty in Canada pamphlet; press release for media conference by the Child Poverty Action Group; response from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; research articles including "One Way to Fight Child Poverty" by Ken Battle and Leon Muszynski, Caledon Institute of Social Policy, February 1995.

This file contains information about Federal policy on child care. Included in the file is information about the awareness campaign for "on the road for quality child care" and "Action Plan for Children". Publications from the New Democrat party on social policy, the government of Canada's "Children Matter" and "Bill C-144: A Critique of the Proposed Canada Child Care Act"; research articles "The 'Mainstreaming' of Daycare" by Susan Prentice and "Moving Towards Quality Child Care: Reflections on Child Care Policy in Canada" by Martha Friendly; information from the Constitutional Constituent Assembly; The Women's Report by Dawn Black, M.P.; and notes for the presentation to OPSEU & PSAC are included in the file.

This file contains the correspondence for the 1996 lobby efforts in response to provincial funding cuts. Included are documents from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Volunteer Leadership Development Program, Thunder Bay District Health Council, Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council, Lakehead Social Planning Council, Ontario Women's Directorate, and Ministry of Community Social Services. Also included in the file is the newsletter Exploring Environment; OCBCC Annual Report 1996; the Trillium Foundation 1996 Stakeholder Survey; and briefing documents and research for OCBBC Executive/Council Members.

This file contains information about Campaign 2000 Child Poverty in Canada; correspondence regarding the 1995 Federal Budget; Postcard Campaign by The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada; Executive Summary Report on Child Care (1995); Lakehead Social Planning Council Social Security Review; Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care Network Campaign Child Care 1993; and the NWORDCC Response to the Federal Government's National Strategy on Child Care (1988), Submission to the Special Committee on Child Care (1986).

This file contains a letter from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care executive with information about the Education Improvement Commission presentation by Kerry McCuaig, Executive Director. The document gives a review of Early Childhood Education programming, staffing, equitable access, and funding models.

This file contains membership information for the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care with membership forms and a listing for the network members for 1997; insurance coverage; and Coordinator's report.

This file contains an extensive collection of resources and correspondence from the Ontario Coalition for Better Childcare. Included in the file is: Municipal Lobby Kit, Network News Publications, working papers sent to the Minister of Community and Social Services, Representation of Council Members, planning notes for reform, Notices of Action, and Collective Responses.

This file contains Executive Committee Minutes,;Finance Committee updates with statements; Network Updates and memorandums; correspondence about Child Care Reform; and newspaper copies. A copy of The New Democratic Party's Response to the Majority Report of the Sub-Committee on Poverty and OCBCC brief Child Care Reform Can't Wait is included in the file.

This file contains information about the OCBCC Executive and Council with memorandum; meeting minutes; newsletters

This blue folder of documents includes an information sheet on the NWORCCC with summary of the briefs presented; "Workshop for the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care Conference" December 1991, co-presented by Dave Hagerman and Barbara Lysnes; and "The Effect of Substitute Care in Early Childhood" by Gillian Doherty (1996). A research folder with planning notes, correspondence, and child care consultation conference agendas; "Presentation to Public Consultation on Child Reform in Ontario", Barbara Lysnes, April 1992; "Draft Response to Setting the Stage: A Public Consultation Paper on Child Care Reform in Ontario", Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, 1992. Information about project funding proposals with The Secretary of State is also included in these documents.