Inclusive Child Care (ICC)

Inclusive Child Care (ICC) is funded by Alberta Children’s Services and provides resources and supports to licensed Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) programs to successfully include children who have extra support needs.

This resource bank is intended to provide additional resources, strategies, and inspiration to create meaningful opportunities for all children to participate and engage in inclusive ELCC programs.

The ICC program provides a range of short-term, intensive resources and supports to licensed child care programs that include:

  • access to on-site, evidence-based consultation to support inclusive program delivery and/or guidance for individualized strategies
  • training and professional development delivered with coaching supports to promote capacity building of inclusive practices
  • access to funding for short-term engagement supports and resources to support knowledge and skill development

The ICC resource bank provides additional information to training provided by each ICC agency.