who we are:

The UBC Daycare Parent Council is a registered non-profit foundation*** which represents the parents of the UBC Acadia Road Childcare both to the facility's administration and to relevant arms of UBC, which subsidizes and houses it. Consisting of parent representatives from each center and an elected volunteer executive, our job is to support the mission of UBC to create the best quality child care system possible.

*** registered as the Acadia Road Communicare Care Society

History and Values:

UBC Childcare itself began as a student-run parent co-op in 1969; UBC assumed management and began providing substantial subsidization in 1991. The intimate, welcoming spaces you see today are the result of 30 years of parents building and planting and caring.

...a former parent with a child now in high school recently visited Lilliput, and recognized the red play bus
(beloved of today's Lilliput kids) which he helped build when his boy was a toddler.

The facility's long tradition of strong parent involvement continues today through parent jobs, work parties, a parent-centric gradual entry system, email lists and family rosters at individual centers, as well as the Daycare Parent Council's advisory role.

A primary value of UBC Childcare is the community that we form around our children: kids who know each others' parents and siblings, parents who connect and support each other outside of childcare, staff who truly know their families and can therefore complete a net of love and awareness around the children in whose lives they play so crucial a role.

Who we are today:

Evolved from its original role of managing the entire facility, the Daycare Parent Council continues to influence the values and priorities of the facility's daily operation as well as providing a conduit of communication between parents and administrative staff; and it reinvents itself as the need arises. The families we represent have evolved from a group of exclusively student parents to today's mix of student, faculty and staff families (with increased demand from UBC, non-UBC families have become rare). Ethnographically we are extremely diverse, drawn from a university demographic of young faculty and mature student families. Within this, we represent a wide array of parenting objectives and constraints, which we strive to honor while maintaining our core values of excellent early childhood care and community building.