{"id":97207,"date":"2022-05-27T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=97207"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:25:16","slug":"barriers-and-bridges-for-early-childhood-educators-playschool-facilitator-affirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/barriers-and-bridges-for-early-childhood-educators-playschool-facilitator-affirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Barriers and bridges for early childhood educators: Playschool facilitator affirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hannah Schwartzentruber is now the Playschool Facilitator at Mansons Hall. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a short time in the position, she has already made improvements to childcare accessibility on Cortes by expanding the playschool hours and offering an additional outdoor program. Schwartzentruber has faced barriers that early childhood education (ECE) workers in remote locations can be especially vulnerable to in the province. Since she is one of the only ECE workers on Cortes Island, she lacks a local support system specific to her industry. Luckily, there is helpful infrastructure in BC to support people like Schwartzentruber working in early childhood education, including mentorship and peer support networks that meet over the phone and online on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One resource that Schwartzentruber champions is the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC). She discusses a position paper on \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecebc.ca\/sector-initiatives\/position-statements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The role of the early childhood educator of BC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d. There is a paid membership for ECEBC, which Schwartzentruber notes is \u201cthis is incredible connective tissue, information sharing and many workshops themselves are free, as is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecebc.ca\/e-newsletter-sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">subscribing to the newsletter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and following the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/552386524778083\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Facebook page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d\u00a0 Lack of affordable housing, low pay, and high-level responsibility attributes to burnout in the job, make a support system invaluable, she added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schwartzentruber is a part of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ecepeermentoring.trubox.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peer Mentorship Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> launched by Laura Doan of Thompson Rivers University. She also recommends <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfamilynetwork.ca\/pacific-care-child-care-information-and-referral.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pacific Care<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is the Campbell River division of Childcare Resource and Referral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schwartzentruber discusses creative solutions to how she copes with challenges of working as an early childhood educator in the CKTZ news story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Schwartzentruber is now the Playschool Facilitator at Mansons Hall. In a short time in the position, she has already made improvements to childcare accessibility on Cortes by expanding the playschool hours and offering an additional outdoor program. 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