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COSTI Immigrant services
Programs and Services

Home Childcare Training Program

COSTI's Home Childcare Training program, prepares immigrant women to become self-employed as Home Childcare providers, or to secure employment in the home childcare field. The program enhances their child rearing skills and provides them with marketable and transferable skills in the childcare field.

The five-week program offers a curriculum on the fundamentals of childcare that is sensitive and respectful of the trainees’ background.

Services Available

  • Program and curriculum development.
  • Workshops on health and safety, including First Aid, CPR, and nutrition.
  • Understanding child abuse.
  • Workshops on child development, and communicating with parents.
  • Criminal reference checks.
  • Access to established childcare organizations.

Who is Eligible

Services are available to immigrant women who are Canadian citizens, landed immigrants, convention refugees or refugee claimants approved by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Times

Three days per week for five weeks.
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
9:00 am to 3:30 pm

This Program is Located at:

Corvetti Education Centre
760 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M6G 1C4
Phone: 416.534.7400
Fax: 416.534.2482
Email: edu@costi.org

There is a $200 enrollment fee for the Home Childcare Training Program.

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COSTI's Home Childcare Training program is funded by the City of Toronto and the United Way of Greater Toronto.