Child Care Support Program

Child Care Capital grants focus on strengthening the quality of child care and creating new licensed spaces in the Basin. If you have a project such as purchasing child care equipment, upgrading or renovating child care facilities or constructing new licensed child care spaces, this program may be able to help.

Learn more information and apply here.

As part of the Child Care Support Program, Columbia Basin Trust has partnered with Kootenay Kids Society to provide advisory services to registered child care providers in the Basin.  These advisory services will support, enhance and increase quality licensed child care spaces.

To learn more about these services, click here.

Basin Early Years Conference

Each year, the Trust supports the only Basin-based professional development conference for Early Childhood Educators. The Early Years Conference offers Early Childhood Educators access to local, high quality professional development and networking opportunities. The next conference will take place in Nelson in Spring 2020.

Early Years Community Tables

In 2017 and 2018, together with Success By 6, the Trust supported 20 Early Years Community Tables throughout the Basin. These are community planning groups that coordinate and develop local resources to support young children’s healthy development and the needs of their families, such as hosting parent education events, connecting with hard-to-reach parents and coordinating early screening programs for children.

In 2019, the Trust continued to support early years tables through a request for applications from all Basin Early Years Tables to support the planning, coordination and implementation of early years activities.