Emergency Preparedness
for Childcare Centres
Boreal Praxis helps Ontario child care centres prepare emergency plans and practice their response. We build around your centre’s daily realities: maintaining supervision, moving kids safely, supporting individual needs, and keeping families informed.
For childcare organizations
Childcare centres, early learning programs, camps, and other organizations responsible for young children face challenges that ordinary workplace emergency plans rarely address.
Boreal Praxis helps childcare organizations develop practical procedures that staff can understand, remember, and use while continuing to supervise and protect children.
Services can include:
Emergency plan development and review
On-site inspections and facility walkthroughs
Evacuation and shelter-in-place procedures
Lockdown and secure-facility procedures
Parent and caregiver communications
Emergency reunification planning
Severe weather, utility failure, fire, and hazardous-material procedures
Staff roles, responsibilities, and quick-reference guides
Emergency supplies and preparedness assessments
Tabletop exercises and staff discussions
After-action reviews following incidents or exercises
Plans are developed with the realities of childcare in mind: maintaining supervision, accounting for every child, supporting children under stress, communicating with families, managing medications and accessibility needs, and making sound decisions when staff and resources are stretched.
Your emergency plan is more than a document on a shelf.
We will make sure your team knows how to use it when it matters.
I Know What to Do! is a practical, reassuring, and fully illustrated book that helps children and families prepare for emergencies together. Using clear language and age-appropriate guidance, it teaches kids how to recognize danger, make safe choices, find trusted helpers, and take the next safe step.
Inside, families learn what to do during a: house fire, carbon monoxide alarm, natural gas leak, power outage, dangerous spill, medical emergency, winter storm, thunderstorm, heat wave, wildfire, tornado, flood, earthquake, tsunami, unsafe person threat, getting lost, or finding something dangerous.
The book also introduces family emergency plans, safe meeting places, emergency kits, important phone numbers, communication tools, ways to practice, and how to recover after a real event.
This is more than a book to read once. It's a conversation starter, a teaching tool, and a practical reference families can return to before, during, and after an emergency.
Written in Ottawa, Canada, by Michael Brulotte, a dad and emergency management professional with more than fifteen years of experience spanning 911 operations, policing, government, hospitals, and child-focused settings.
Add I Know What to Do! to your bookshelf today. Now available on Amazon.
