Alberta Professional Development Funding

Overview of the Alberta Professional Development Funding program:

Licensed facility-based child care programs and licensed family day home agencies can receive professional development funding to help eligible ECEs with the costs of approved post-secondary tuition and textbooks, as well as approved conferences or workshops. Paid ECEs can use this funding to pursue further training and professional development opportunities to obtain higher levels of certification and strengthen leadership, management, administration, and early childhood education skills and knowledge.

Benefits of the Alberta Professional Development Funding program:

• Maximum available funding of up to $2,000/year is available for qualified ECEs

Eligibility criteria of the Alberta Professional Development Funding program:

• The professional development funding is for ECEs who are paid employees or contracted family day home educators of eligible child care programs who:
  • Provide direct child care, including as program supervisors (as defined in the Early Learning and Child Care Regulation), as well as individuals hired by licensed family day home agencies as agency coordinators or home visitors/consultants.
  • Are certified as ECE Level 1, 2 or 3.
  • Are Canadian citizens, Permanent Residents of Canada, or temporary residents with valid work/study permits.*
  • Have worked at least 29 hours in at least one month from the date of the expenditure or the date the application was received.
  • Have submitted a Professional Development Funding Request Form from https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/CDEV12397 and made a payment for the course, workshop, or conference within the same fiscal year (April to March).
  • Temporary residents must submit a copy of their valid work/study permit that indicates that there are no conditions that