Partnerships

We partner with local governments in the communities we serve. We collaborate on session modelling to accommodate family needs. This ensures that families have equitable access to places in sessional kindergarten throughout the enrolment process.

AMF is our professional development partner in building trauma-informed practice and well-being capability. This support is available to families, educators and children. AMF works with ECMS at a universal service delivery level and in a targeted and intensive way when needed.

The Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) is our professional development partner for implementing CLASS, an internationally accredited program that measures the effectiveness of educator interactions with children.

Melbourne City Mission (MCM) is our partner for coordinating our access to a suite of allied health professionals from speech pathologists to occupational therapists used for our School Readiness Funding program. MCM provides learning opportunities, resources and coaching to our early childhood teaching teams.

Dr Katherine Bussey is our expert resident in practice, working directly within infant and toddler rooms to upskill infant and toddler care and education practice. Dr Bussey also provides induction for all educators working in ECMS services with children birth to 3.

Because our ECMS pedagogical framework privileges deep learning about place-based pedagogy, ECMS is currently undertaking a body of work on the Anti-Bias Approach in Early Childhood Education. Dr Red Ruby Scarlet and The Brotherhood of St Laurence academically mentor this work within ECMS.