Early learning programs for children and families
Oliver Centre
Philosophy
Oliver
Centre promotes children's experience of safe and caring
environments where their emotional and physical health, positively
self identifies a sense of belonging. Children should have open and
flexible environments where playful exploration, problem solving
and creativity are encouraged and purposely planned. Environments
will reflect a sense of belonging where children feel nurtured and
supported. Children's environments will be a place where their
communicative practices, literacy, and literate identities are
valued and supported.
Play is
integral to children's learning and richly formative in their
capacity for relationship. Oliver Centre believes that play must be
accorded a key place in the lives of young children. Play is
essential to quality of life in childhood and a primary means of
understanding the world.
Oliver
Centre believes that children are confident, active learners whose
learning, growth, and development are profoundly influenced by the
quality of their relationships with people and their interactions
with places and things.
Our Vision
Oliver Centre's vision will be the realization of children and
their families developing multiple strengths that will make the
family unit more successful.
Our Mission
Our Mission as a Child and Family Resource Program is to enhance
healthy development in children and to support and strengthen
families.
Goals
To provide children with a learning environment that will enhance
their development, and prepare them for a more successful entry
into school and community.
To address possible emotional, social, and behavioural
difficulties in children through the provision of early
identification and intervention strategies.
To provide the resources, supports, and prevention interventions
to families, thereby enabling the parents to build secure
relationships and to enhance parenting skills.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi
Board Calendar
The Oliver Centre Board has created a new calendar to keep member families informed of the board's meetings.
Click here to view the calendar.
News & Events
Careers with Oliver Centre
We are currently hiring two Community Outreach Workers one temporary full time and one full time maternity leave coverage at our Full Day Head Start Program. If you are interested in either position please send your resume to sue@olivercentre.com
Oliver Board Recognition
Oliver Centre is a program that has been in the Oliver neighborhood for over thirty years. Through the years it has been established as a centre that takes pride in the development of children. All of the staff who work in the classroom comes to the program with a degree or diploma in education. This ensures that your children will be inspired through play. They will become explorers, investigators, make great friendships, and learn to become independent thinkers. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the amazing staff that work with your children. They are the reason Oliver Centre is a well known, well recognized centre for early learning.