CMAS

CMAS is Canada's leading organization that focuses on caring for immigrant and refugee children. We take a great deal of pride in sharing our expertise with immigrant serving organizations and other organizations in the child care field... CMAS-an organization funded through Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)-was founded in 2000 to monitor and support the childminding services offered alongside Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) English as a second language programs. Hence the name CMAS, Childminding Monitoring, Advisory and Support. Since then, the organization has helped programs to move from childminding model into the care for newcomer children model that exists today, so the word childminding is no longer used... Development of the CNC Model and Requirements was carried out from July 2009 through March 2010 by a team from CMAS and with advice from an Advisory Committee. The Committee included academics and representatives of stakeholder groups..