Winnipeg MFRC Child Care Centre

About

• Goals
  • To support families and provide quality care for children
  • To respect each child for their own unique qualities
  • To build positive self-concepts and individual strengths
  • To establish and maintain a safe, healthy environment
  • To recognise that families have different childcare needs and accommodate those needs to the best of our ability
  • To offer a stimulating and inclusive program that fosters the development of the whole child
• Curriculum

  We provide child-centred, family-oriented childcare programs guided by an emergent and play-based curriculum. Our approach is developmental, nurturing each child’s social, emotional, physical and cognitive growth – recognising that these areas are inter-connected and mutually reinforcing.
  
  We foster secure relationships between children and staff, and among children, ensuring each child receives individualised attention in a safe, home-like environment, where they can explore and learn at their own pace.
  
  Our programs celebrate the richness of our diverse, inclusive community. Children engage with materials and activities from around the world, and every child, regardless of ability or challenge, is supported to develop at their individual levels, in a nurturing, respectful space.
  
  What is an emergent curriculum?
  It offers both planned activities and spontaneous experiences emerging from children’s own interests and ideas. It ensures that children have input into how they spend their day, fostering independence and engagement.
  
  What is a play-based curriculum?
  It nurtures children’s learning and development through play. It is designed to create fun, fond memories through shared experiences with peers of varying ages, all within a safe and stimulating environment. Children enjoy long, uninterrupted playtime that helps them learn and reach their full potential. Cooperative play strengthens their ability to self-regulate and grow across all areas of development – each at their own unique pace.

• Capacity
  Approved Capacity (FY 2025/26) – 127 spaces

  Type of care available – Full-time

  
  LICENSED FACILITIES:

  A. Long-term care

  • Infant (3 mo. – 2 yrs.) – 12 spaces
  • Toddler (2 – 3 yrs.) – 18 spaces
  • Pre-school (3 – 5 yrs.) – 32 spaces
  • School age - before and after school (5 – 12 yrs.) – 41 spaces

  B. Short-term infant care

  • Infant (3 mo. – 2 yrs.) – 24 spaces
• Securing spaces, who gets priority
  Long-Term Care

  1. Full-time - military/DND/reservist families already in care
  2. Full-time - military/DND/reservist families from Short-Term Care
  3. Full-time - military/DND/Reservist families on the waitlist

  
  Short-Term Infant Care

  1. Newly-posted Regular Force families - first priority for 6 months from date of paid registration
  2. Regular Force families on the waitlist
  3. Reservists/DND families on the waitlist

  
  Other Rules

  • Siblings of children enrolled in full-time care receive priority.
  • Civilian kinder-age children (5 yrs.) and school-age children may be accepted within the current school year only, with defined start/end dates of care. Renewal may be granted as conditions evolve during the school year.
• Fees

  Registration Fee - $30 (non-refundable)
  
  Infant care:  
  $10 per day

  Pre-school care: 
  $10 per day 
  $5 per day (less than four hours)

  School-age care: 
  $8.60 per two slots (before and after school) 
  $10 per day (in-services and holidays)