Rainbow Families' Experiences with Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Services

Rainbow Families, working with Early Childhood Australia, the peak early childhood advocacy organisation, is working to develop professional learning resources for educators on family diversity and how to support children of LGBTQ+ parents.

These resources will enable early childhood educators to create learning opportunities for 0-8 year old children Australia-wide to learn about the diversity of families, LGBTQ+ parented families specifically and how diversity is a positive part of Australian society.  

By creating early awareness with children 0-8, it is more likely that children of LGBTQ+ parents will experience less discrimination and disadvantage as they grow up.

To support the development of these resources and inform best practices, we would like to hear positive and negative experiences from LGBTQ+ parents whose children attended ECEC services including long day care, family day care, preschool and or outside school hours care. Additionally, as part of the development of these resources, we will be filming within services, filming with a few families and creating case studies and we are interested in developing a list of services and families to be considered for inclusion.

The survey will take about 5-10 minutes to complete and we thank you in advance for your participation and interest in helping us reduce the discrimination and disadvantage faced by many children with LGBTQ+ parents.

Thank you!

Scott Brunelle (he/Him)
Cochair of Rainbow Families
 
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What is your first and last name? *
What suburb and state do you live in? *
Please share POSITIVE experiences you and your family had relating to the ECEC service being inclusive and supportive of you as an LGBTQ+ parent and your family. Please list as many as you can think of. These may include but are not limited to things such as how they welcomed you to the centre (including inclusive forms), how the education team created experiences to educate the children on family diversity and LGBTQ+ parents, and or how they celebrated diversity including with mother's, father's day and Mardi Gras, etc. *
Please share NEGATIVE experiences you and your family had relating to the ECEC service being inclusive and supportive of you as an LGBTQ+ parent and your family. Please list as many as you can think of. *
What ideas do you have that would improve the experience of LGBTQ+ parented families and their children within ECEC services? *
Were you the only LGBTQ+ parented family within your ECEC service? *
Within the ECEC service your child or children attended, did the resources the service provided reflect family diversity/your family structure? For examples children’s books, pictures or posters on display, etc. *
When you were looking for an ECEC service for your child or children, did your search require extra effort to find a service that you thought would be inclusive of your LGBTQ+ parented family? *
If you are comfortable with us contacting you to learn more about your experience with your ECEC service please share with us your phone number.
If you had a positive experience with your ECEC service and would like to nominate them for inclusion in the resource, please share the name of the service, their phone number and a contact at the service so we can get in contact with them.
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