In this episode, we speak to Erin Shum, the first Chinese woman elected to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, where she served as a Park Board Commissioner and was subsequently nominated as Vice Chair. In the last 2 years, Erin opened up a licensed multi age child care facility in Renfrew Heights and is enjoying her time with her husband and their 2 year old daughter. Erin continues to serve the community and is currently on the Executive Board for Renfrew Park Community Centre Association, President of the Rotary Club of Fraserview and Board of Directors for South Vancouver Community Policing Centre.

Erin talks to us about the ways that child care providers have been forced to get creative during this COVID-19 pandemic, and gives us some great recommendations for ways to continue to build and connect with communities and parent groups to help share best practices, support each other, and make it through this new temporary normal as successfully as possible while sheltering at home.

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