Exploring strategies for participation of all children

1. Exploring strategies for
participation of all children
A Churchill Fellowship Research tour through Canada and the USA

5. British Columbia
Aboriginal Child Care Society
 They use culture and language at the heart of their approach to integrate these four pillars to
strengthen and generate innovation to increase knowledge and to support change in practice
 - Research
 -Resource Centre
 -Education and Training
 -Services

6. Research
 Multi- age Grouping
 Inclusion of Elders
 Use of Traditional Food or Food from the land

7. Resources, Education and Training
 Library
 Advisors
 Moe the Mouse
 Cultural Resource Kit
 Conferences and Upskilling

8. 6 components of Aboriginal Headstart
 Culture and Language
 Education and School Readiness
 Health Promotion
 Nutrition
 Social Support
 Parent and Family Involvement

9. Singing Frogs

13. Eagle’s Nest

15. Seeds of Empathy

19. Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre

35. First Nations Child and Family
Caring Society

37. Touchstones of Hope
 Truth Telling
 The process of listening and sharing, regarding the past;
 Acknowledging
 Affirming and learning from the past and embracing new possibilities for the future;
 Restoring
 Addressing the problems of the past and creating a better path for the future, and;
 Relating
 Having recognized that Indigenous peoples are in the best position to make decisions about
Indigenous children

38. Jubilee Jumpstart

43. Parent Education and Involvement

44. Changes
 Culture and Language
 Literacy and Numeracy
 Health Promotion/Nutrition
 Social Support
 Parent and Family Involvement
 Family grouping
 Inclusion of Elders
 Encouraging traditional foods/ food from the
land
 Seeds of Empathy
 Community Liaison workers or cultural
workers
 Touchstones of Hope to guide reconciliation