When there are complex, disruptive behavioural issues as a result of what's going on at home, then my coworker and I do have to address what's going on. We have several children who have their own incident books in which we are required to document observations, but with only 2 staff it's very difficult to have one staff sit out to observe and document one child at a time, while the other staff supervises the other 15 children. Here in Canada the shortage of ECEs is at a critical level. My boss is having a hard time finding someone to fill a full time position on the I/T side, and although we have funding for a special needs worker for one of our preschoolers, there isn't anyone to fill that position. So we are doing our best with that little guy, but neither of us have our special needs training. There is another little guy who needs to be assessed, but before we can do that we have to have a meeting with his parents, who split up, which makes things challenging to get everyone's schedules to line up and everyone on the same page.

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