The BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS) are in the process of updating their popular curriculum kits. Drum, salmon, bear and owl are complete and coyote, raven, eagle, canoe, cedar, and traditional foods kits will be available soon.
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Jordan’s Principle is about ensuring First Nations receive the services they need when they need them. The First Nation’s Health Authority has produced a Fact Sheet on how Jordan’s Principle works in BC.
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Making Sense of Trauma: Practical Tools for Responding to Children and Youth is a free online webinar designed to help those working with families learn how to use a Trauma-Informed perspective to better understand the relational, neurobiological and developmental impact of trauma on children and youth.
Read MoreHost your own Discussion on the Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework is a toolkit produced by Employment and Social Development Canada offering a Discussion Guide and a Response Template to assist groups to share their ideas together and participate in the engagement process around the development of the Framework. “Have your say, share your ideas, and take part in the engagement process!”
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In this short video, members of the HELP Aboriginal Steering Committee reflect on the Middle Years Development Instrument and the power of children’s voices.
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The Federal Government is changing its health policy to begin paying for someone to travel with Indigenous women who need to leave their communities to give birth. This comes after recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to recognize the state of Indigenous health.
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The BC Representative of Children and Youth released a report in March 2017 calling for new funding models to encourage different outcomes. The report calls for a comprehensive re-think of how the province delivers services to youth and children in Indigenous communities that takes into account the unique needs of their communities and the lingering impacts of historical policies.
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Parents as First Teachers is one of a series of resource booklets available through FNHA to support First Nations and Métis parents in BC.
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Learn about an interactive approach to research that has actively engaged with a rural Aboriginal community to make existing child development measurement tools more effective for local use.
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“Back to the Future”: A recent study looks at the value of recreating natural Indigenous language learning environments through language nest early childhood immersion programs.
Read MoreThe Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has produced an 11-minute discussion-starter video We All Have a Role: Preventing and Responding to Violence, along with a Community Resource Guide: What Can I Do to Help the Families of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls?
Read MoreClick here to watch a message of love, healing and hope aimed at ending violence against Aboriginal women and children.
Read MoreThe Letters to Canada video documents the thoughts of Canadian children on the unequal treatment of First Nations children in Canada.
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