A skilled and competent child care workforce is critical to providing high quality child care that benefits children’s early development and learning. The challenge for the sector is to increase the skills and education of the child care workforce to improve the quality of early learning and care that children experience.

In this section of the HR Toolkit, you will find information about factors affecting learning and training, how to implement an employee development and training program, principles of adult education and a searchable directory of learning, training and development opportunities for people working in the sector.

In this Section:

• Factors affecting working and learning
• Getting your organization ready for employee training and development
• Understanding the employee as an adult learner
• Implementing an employee training and development program
• Links to organizations offering ECEC Professional Development tools

Thank you to the HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector for sharing the content of their extensive HR Toolkit. This was a tremendous resource upon which the CCHRSC's ECEC-specific toolkit was built.