Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care

The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) was founded in 1981 to advocate for universally accessible, quality, non-profit regulated child care in the province of Ontario. Our membership includes representatives from education, health care, labour, child-welfare, injury prevention, rural, First Nations, Francophone, social policy, anti- poverty, professional, student and women's organizations. We serve community based child care programs, local child care coalitions and coordinate the activities of eight Child Care Action Networks (CCANs) across the province. The Coalition is a public awareness organization and a non-partisan political action group, we work to bring the benefits of early childhood education and care to the attention of the public, and policy ( www.childcareontario.org )