Project Sites

Seven sites across Canada were part of the TLC³ project. The local project sites were culturally and linguistically diverse, operating in both urban and rural environments, working primarily with low-income families, but also with moderate or middle-income parents. The age of the children ranged from infants to preschoolers.

Local sites generally used funding from TLC³ to build on their quality programs. Program enrichment was intended not only to benefit young children's language and cognitive development during the period of the project (1997-2002), but also to strengthen the capacity of parents and communities to provide optimal environments to promote children's learning over the longer term. Over the five years more than 2,000 children and their parents were involved in a TLC³ program or participated in a TLC³ sponsored activity.

In addition to delivering programs and creating resource materials, the sites trained and guided staff to focus more attention on children's language and thinking. They worked with staff in the site project organizations, which included child care centres, family resource centres and preschools, and at other sites, like libraries, out in the community. They used training, coaching and modeling techniques to advance the goals of TLC³.

Brief site descriptions and summaries of their final reports are included for each site: (this is sort of lame. Not sure how to get into the site stuff).

• Vancouver, British Columbia;
• Calgary, Alberta;
• Regina Saskatchewan;
• Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan;
• Toronto, Ontario;
• Saint-Rémi, Quebec; and
• Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.