Antonina Crimi

1. What is your role and what does a typical day look like for you?  

I am a Home Visitor with the City of Toronto, working closely with home child care providers who hold agreements with the Toronto Home Child Care Agency. I support providers in meeting Ministry of Education and Quality Assurance expectations by offering guidance, conducting safety and inspection checks, and helping maintain safe, high quality learning environments. My role combines compliance oversight with ongoing education and support.

2. What part of your work has the biggest impact on your community?  

My work helps ensure children are cared for in safe, nurturing, and regulated home child care settings. By supporting providers to meet and exceed requirements, I help protect children’s well being and strengthen trust with families. Embracing inclusion and diversity is central to promoting access to quality care for everyone.

Home child care offers families flexible, community based care with smaller group sizes and strong relationships. It allows siblings to stay together from infancy through age 12. I help ensure families have access to safe and reliable care that supports child development and enables parents to participate confidently in the workforce or continue their education.

3. What do you enjoy most about serving your municipality?  

I enjoy building supportive relationships with providers and helping them grow professionally. Seeing programs improve and knowing my guidance positively impacts children and families is very rewarding. I also value connecting providers with EarlyON programs, libraries, parks, community events, and other resources that strengthen engagement.

4. Anything else you’d like people to know about your role, your team, or your municipality? 

Municipal work offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in your community. In roles like mine, you support families and strengthen essential services. It is collaborative, purpose driven work that meets community needs both now and in the long term.