Childcare

Special Needs Grant for Licensed Early Learning and Child Care Centres

Amount:

No Fixed Amount

Type of Program:

Grants

Description:

The Special Needs Grant supports the inclusion of children with special needs in a licensed early learning and child care setting by providing funding for additional staff.

Comments on Funding:

Funding is a maximum of $14.75 per hour (April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023) plus 12.59% MERCS for each Special Needs Assistant (SNA) employed by the centre and will cover a maximum of 8 hours per day to a maximum of 40 hours per week.
Higher salaries would be the responsibility of the centre.

When It Ends:

Ongoing

Deadline:

Rolling deadline

Eligibility:

The applicant must:

be Prince Edward Island licensed child care centres,
have children with special needs in their care.

Application Steps:

Application is to be made:

by the Supervisor/Operator of the licensed child care centre where the child is registered.

to the Manager of Early Learning and Child Care.

Documentation Needed:

Applications includes the submission of:

the Agreement Form,
Application Outline (items 1 - 4),
Table 1 and Table 2,
Funding Proposal Form,
Centre's personnel policies.

Other Things to Note:

Published date: August 25, 2022.

Program Contact:

Special Needs Grant for Licensed Early Learning and Child Care Centres

EELC Special Needs Grant Guidelines

Operating Grant Program

Amount:

No Fixed Amount

Type of Program:

Grants

Description:

The Operating Grant Program (OGP) helps to address the affordability of child care services for families with young children throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. Effective January 1, 2022, the OGP requires participating child care centers to lower their rates to $15 per day for Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers and Full-Day School-Age children. The Provincial Government will, in turn, provide an operating grant to these centres.

Comments on Funding:

The Operating Grant for Child Care centres (per space/per day) is:

$46.50 (enhanced $52) for infants (Full-time);
$28.50 (enhanced $30) for toddlers (Full-time);
$25 (enhanced $28.50) for pre-school (Full-time);
$25 (enhanced $28.50) for school age (Full-day);
$10.50 (enhanced $14) for after school;
$10.50 (enhanced $14) for before & after school;
$23.25 (enhanced $26) for infants (Part-time);
$14.25 (enhanced $16) for toddlers (Part-time);
$12.50 (enhanced $14.25) for pre-school (Part-time);
$12.50 (enhanced $14.25) for school age (Part-time).

The Operating Grant range for family homes (per space/per day) is:

$43.50 (enhanced $52) for infants (Full-time);
$27 (enhanced $32) for toddlers (Full-time);
$24 (enhanced $28.50) for pre-school (Full-time);
$24 (enhanced $28.50) for school age (Full-day);
$9.50 (enhanced $14) for after school;
$9.50 (enhanced $14) for before & after school;
$21.75 (enhanced $26) for infants (Part-time);
$13.50 (enhanced $16) for toddlers (Part-time);
$12 (enhanced $14.25) for pre-school (Part-time);
$12 (enhanced $14.25) for school age (Part-time).

The enhanced rate includes the provision of meals and snacks.

When It Ends:

Ongoing

Deadline:

Rolling deadline

Eligibility:

Applicants must be Newfoundland and Labrador licensed child care centers or family homes.

Application Steps:

Applicants must submit their application by email/fax to FCC-OGP@gov.nl.ca, OGP@gov.nl.ca or 709-729-1400 or by courier/regular mail to the Family Home Child Care Operating Grant Program, Department of Education, 3rd Floor, West Block, Confederation Building, P. O. Box 8700, St. John’s, NL, A1B 4J6.

Documentation Needed:

Child Care Centres must submit:

1
Copy of license;
2
Certificate of Incorporation (if applicable);
3
Workplace Health and Safety Clearance;
4
Financial Statements (if applying for enhanced rate);
5
CRA Clearance / Balance;
6
Salary Statements (if applying for enhanced rate);
7
Quarter 4 Enrolment Stats (if applicable).

Family Homes must submit:

1
Copy of license;
2
Certificate of Incorporation (if applicable);
3
CRA Clearance / Balance;
4
T2125 (if applying for supplemental rate).

Other Things to Note:

The Operating Grant Program (OGP) for centre-based child care is a key component of the Provincial Government’s child care strategy, Caring For Our Future.

Revised 2022-05-06 (Family Homes application form)
Revised 2022-09-20 (Child Care Centres application form)

Program Contact:

Operating Grant Program

Microsoft Word - OGP Client _Policy Program Manual_ 2020-10-29.doc

ArtsSmarts

Amount:

$7,000.00

Type of Program:

Grants

Description:

ArtsSmarts is available to schools and school boards in the provincial K-12 education system. The program goal is to engage young people in artistic activity to develop supporters and practitioners of the arts by nurturing creative thinkers. Projects must incorporate artistic disciplines served by ArtsNL. These are dance, film and video, new media arts (computer animation, online art creation), multidiscipline (exploring two or more art forms), music (classical, modern, and traditional), theatre (including storytelling and circus), visual arts (including traditional crafts, photography, and pottery) and creative writing.

Comments on Funding:

The maximum grant awarded by ArtsSmarts is $7,000, and the minimum grant to be awarded is $1,000, or the total amount requested by the applicant if less than $1,000.

When It Ends:

Ongoing

Deadline:

May 31

Eligibility:

The applicants must be schools and school boards in the provincial K-12 system.

Only professional individual artists, groups of artists, or professional not-for-profit arts organization are eligible to work in schools on ArtsSmarts Projects.

Definition of a professional artist:

A person shall be considered to be a professional artist if that person satisfies 4 of the following criteria, including at least one of the criteria referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c):

receives or has received compensation which can be included in professional or business income,
has a record of income or loss relevant to the history of his or her work and appropriate to the span of his or her artistic career,
has received public or peer recognition by publicly disseminated critical reviews or appraisals or by similar means,
has presented his or her work to the public by means of exhibitions, publications, screenings, performances, readings, or by other means appropriate to the nature of his or her work,
is represented by a dealer, publisher, agent or similar professional representative appropriate to the nature of his or her work,
devotes a reasonable proportion of his or her professional time to promoting or marketing his or her work;
the person

has received professional training in an educational institution from a practitioner recognized in his or her profession, or
is self-taught within the established practices of the person’s cultural traditions,

has membership in a professional association, appropriate to his or her artistic activity,

whose membership is or categories of membership are limited under standards of the association, or
which is a trade union or equivalent appropriate to his or her artistic activity, and

holds copyright in his or her own work and has received royalty or residual payment based on that copyright.

Definition of a professional arts group:

A group of individual artists who work in one or more of the artistic disciplines supported by ArtsNL and that:

has the creation and/or presentation of works of art as its primary activity,
is composed of at least two individuals,
has all members meeting ArtsNL’s definition of a professional artist,
charges artist fees at established national standards for the artistic discipline(s) and practice in which it operates,
pays individual members artist fees at established national standards for the artistic discipline(s) and practice in which it operates,
has internal oversight of the group's finances and can produce an annual financial statement.

Definition of a professional not-for-profit arts organization:

A formal organization operating in one or more of the artistic disciplines supported by ArtsNL and that:

has the creation and/or presentation of works of art as its primary activity,
is registered, or operates as a non-profit arts entity,
has a board of directors overseeing the operations of the organization,
has a paid artistic director, general manager, or equivalent,
pays artist fees at established national standards for the artistic discipline(s) and practice in which it operates,
has internal or external oversight of the organization’s finances and produces an annual financial statement.

Application Steps:

wait for ArtsNL to approve their registration,

submit additional documentation, if required.

Documentation Needed:

The applicant must submit:

1
a complete application on/before the application deadline consisting of a brief summary of the overall project at the school, a listing of the number of students and teachers taking part in the overall project, a listing of the grade levels taking part on the overall project, overall project start and end dates, a detailed project description and budget for each specific project, a detailed overall budget for the whole school project, résumé/bio for each artist involved in the project that confirms a professional arts practice as defined above, and confirms the individual’s province of residency,
2
support material.

A final report on all projects funded by ArtsNL is typically required within three months of the project end date listed on the application form.

Other Things to Note:

Only one application will be accepted from each applicant (i.e., school or school board) per application deadline. Up to seven specific projects may be included in a single application.

Program Contact:

ArtsSmarts - ArtsNL | Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council