Community Visit Report

This community visit report provides an overview of Brampton West Mississauga Early year’s center, including their programs focused on children aged six and below. It discusses the organization's mission, stakeholders, and community capacity building efforts.

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Overview of the activities
As mentioned in the previous parts of the work the organization is Brampton West
Mississauga Early year’s center. It under the much larger Child Development Resource
Connection Peel or CDRCP. The programs of the organization are focused towards helping
children of 6 years or below in need. The organization offers free programs that are focused on
promotion of interactions between caregivers and the children that are aged six years or lower.
Another significant part of the program is to ensure that the children get a fun place where their
various social, developmental and emotional needs and requirements can be met through exiting
means such as playing, exploring or reading. The programs also aim to address the individual
needs of the children that may be unique in some cases. The programs also provided a good
place for interactions between various families. Additionally, through the programs the
participants were provided guidance on parenting along with information about child
development and resources. Consultation services were also provided to parents who had
children with special care needs like behavior or speech problems.
Figure 1: Child Care
(Source- CDRCP, 2019)

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The website of early on center promotes the mission and vision of the organization for
enhancing community engagement. The mission is to engage, create connections and empower
the local community. The PEP start clinic provides free programs, creates a developmental
platform and forms a play led environment for supporting the requirements of children. Toddler,
pre-school, behavior and parenting and language and speech are some essential areas of
development. The free programs that are offered by the organization have been effective in
making it a popular organization in the given area and also in the province. The organization
focuses on reaching all communities that form part of the given area. The organization have been
working effectively for around 25 years along with its parent organization CDRCP (CDRCP,
2019). The goal of the organization have been the development of quality family lives. The most
important functionalities of the organization are based on being inclusive, accessible,
knowledgeable and engaging. Community engagement and interaction in the Peel and adjacent
regions of Ontario. The president of the organization is Kathy Wallace and the executive director
is Sara Ammar. Some of the most successful programs have been learning in the neighborhood
or LION, Pep-start and Early on.

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Figure 2: Child health checkup in Early on Center
(Source- earlon-center.weebly.com)
Summary of Stakeholders
The essential stakeholders that are connected with the organization are the fund
providers, the volunteers, the community, government and the underprivileged families. The
organization essentially builds on strengths and weaknesses of the stakeholders. For example-
the organization utilizes the expertise of the volunteers to enhance the productive functioning of
the organization. Many of the volunteers have backgrounds in psychology, management,
childcare that are utilized towards improving the services that are provided. Some of the funding
organizations like PLASP Child Care services and the Retired teachers of Ontario provide
essential assistance apart from financial support to provide effective support to the work that the
organization does. The knowledge and expertise of the stakeholders are utilized towards creating
better strategies.

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Primarily, the most important stakeholders for the organization are the volunteers. These
are the main people that help in developing effective engagement with the target populations.
The work of the volunteers are divided in accordance with the kind of job roles that are required
to do for the organization. They are divided in accordance with the support that they provide.
The role of the volunteers also change in accordance with the programs that are held year round.
Early childhood education and early childhood assistance are some of the major roles that the
volunteers have to play in the organization (Volunteering, 2019). The second most important
stakeholders are the funding organizations. Some of the most important are Sir Joseph Flavelle
Foundation, The Mikey Network and PLASP Childcare services. In order to run the year round
programs the organization requires essential funding. These stakeholders provide the necessary
financial backing to help the organization grow and develop. The funding helps to create better
programs and serve more people in the community. The third important stakeholder are the
community. The community helps in serving the people better. The role of the community here
is to increase the interactions of the organization with the underprivileged families. The local
community provides the people that are required to be served. Many local community members
also volunteer in the work of the organization. Additionally, the local community provides the
required support that is needed to make the programs more effective. Community participation
have increased causing the organization to function well.
Community capacity Building
Community interactions and promotion are central to community capacity building. For
this function the organization relies on various forms of media including their online website.
Community capacity building refers to the promotion of the local communities’ capacity for
development. This includes building of skills, competencies, abilities, resource and processes

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that can help towards building a community. The organization also takes part in some essential
community capacity development activities. There are four essential values that the organization
focuses while participating in the capacity building exercise. These values are partnerships,
evidence based innovation, inclusion and integrity. The organization believes in empowering the
members of the community. The organization provides free resources and assistance to the local
families through which they can effectively run their families. Families are also provided
essential assistance in regards to how they can develop and nurture their children (Britto et al.,
2017).
Some of the most important factors that are emphasized through the community capacity
development are engagement of the stakeholders, assess the capacity requirements,
implementation of response and evaluation of development (Delgado Serrano et al., 2016). The
principles of community capacity building focus on understanding community needs. They focus
on either bottom up or grassroots practice. They have a strength based approach, an inclusive
practice, investment in community capacity and a sustainability aim. It is important to note that
these same are used by the Early on center towards effective community capacity building. The
Early on center focuses on understanding community needs of the locality. It runs development
programs for families based on their specific needs as per the locality. The Early on center in
accordance with grassroots practice helps in the development of children below 6 years. Through
providing childcare and family oriented assistance to the local underprivileged communities, the
organization focuses on strengthening the position of the community members. Early on has
significantly focused its developmental plans on the standards of reaching out to the needs of the
community with a grassroots program (CDRCP, 2019). The effective participation of the local
community has strengthened the initiatives of the organization. The organization operates in

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accordance with the essential standards of the community development. The holistic
development of the community is aimed through not only the development of early year’s
children but their families as well.

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