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Professional or Student Membership

Please refer to the following membership details and choose the appropriate membership:

Professional Membership

Any person who

  • is an early childhood educator certified to work in the Province of Alberta; or
  • is a present employee of a licensed child care program in the Province of Alberta; or
  • is a present contract holder or employee of an approved family day home agency in the Province of Alberta; or
  • is a person delivering post-secondary early childhood education and care courses in the Province of Alberta; or
  • is a person working in support of licensed or contracted child care providers in Alberta.

Professional members participating in the Benefex benefits program qualify for a reduced membership rate. To renew or purchase these memberships please contact the AECEA office at (780) 421-7544 or info@aecea.ca

Student Membership

Any person who

  • is enrolled in post-secondary early learning and child care (ELCC) programs in Alberta; or
  • is a student in leadership, management, human resources, or another program related to ELCC.

Students enrolled in a full-time, publicly-funded, ELCC post-secondary program in Alberta qualify for a free membership with AECEA. Please contact your program coordinator if you qualify to obtain the discount code. Please note, discount codes change each year on September 1. If you have a discount code that no longer works, please contact your program coordinator to receive a new code.

Professional membership is now available with instalment payments of $11.29 including GST per month. For more information please go here.

If your discount code is not working, confirm that there are no spaces at the start/end of the code and that your code is spelled correctly.
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If you achieved your certification by completing an early learning and child care post-secondary certificate, diploma, or degree, please select education. If you achieved your certification by any other method, such as what can be found in Appendix B in the certification guide for early childhood educators, please select equivalency.

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We acknowledge that what we call Alberta is the traditional and ancestral territory of many peoples, presently subject to Treaties 6, 7, and 8. Namely: the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Metis Homeland. We acknowledge the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.