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Compass Early Learning and Care is a Ontario nonprofit early-learning and child-care provider. It operates licensed child-care and early-learning programs for infants, children, families, and communities. Its services support parents and caregivers who need center-based or home-based care and educators who design inclusive learning environments. The organization combines curriculum and play-based learning with child development, family communication, nutrition, licensing, facilities, and program administration. Work spans early childhood education, classroom assistance, home-child-care support, nutrition, administration, and program leadership.
About Compass Early Learning and Care
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Peterborough, Canada
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Federal childcare fee reductions boosted demand, filling Compass programs across 42 locations.
- Compass won a $534,159 federal grant through March 2026 for workforce development.
- City of Kawartha Lakes partnership positions Kirkfield for immediate local goodwill and enrollment.
What critics are saying
- Kirkfield's 49-space opening depends on renovations, licensing, and staffing by 2025.
- Waitlists of 500-900 children per program signal capacity strain and parent frustration.
- Dependence on government fee-subsidy funding exposes margins if 2026 policy shifts.
What makes Compass Early Learning and Care unique
- Compass ELC is one of East-Central Ontario's largest nonprofit childcare operators, with 42 centers.
- It combines centre care, home childcare, and EarlyON programs across multiple counties.
- Its Kirkfield purchase, a former elementary school, secures scarce childcare real estate.
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With a recent announcement that Compass Early Learning & Care (Compass ELC) would be launching a new program in Kirkfield, the Peterborough-based not-for-profit organization said it's hoping to to provide more than child care to the Kawartha Lakes community over the long term.
Partnering with the City of Kawartha Lakes, Compass ELC will be supporting the Kirkfield community which was identified as the number one priority area based on lack of access to licensed childcare, and the needs in the surrounding area.
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About Compass Early Learning and Care
Industries
Education
Healthcare
Company Size
N/A
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Peterborough, Canada
Founded
N/A
Compass Early Learning and Care is Hiring for 17 Jobs on Simplify!
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