Aboriginal Early Years Website

This website offers information to all community members on initiatives happening in local Nations/Districts and Urban Aboriginal agencies around the early years of child development. This is grass roots driven, community initiative recommended by the Aboriginal Community to better serve our Community.

http://www.aboriginalearlyyears.ca/

What's New

Aug

Childcare centres brace for cutbacks: ‘we don’t have a choice’

Victorian childcare operators fear enrolments could drop by more than half and they will...

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Aug

Joe Biden's plan for universal preschool forgets key to children's success: Parents.

Preschool attendance is voluntary. That means children with motivated, engaged parents...

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Aug

Kids are not major source of COVID-19 spread, McMaster research review finds

'One of the things we really need to focus on is minimizing contact between the adults in...

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Quick Fact

The First Five Years of a Child's Life Provide the Blueprint for their Cognitive Well Being Throughout Life....

In the first six years of life, our genes are particularly sensitive to the environment. The interaction of nature and nurture “sculpts” the developing brain and other key biological systems. The regions of the brain that are highly sensitive to the environment during this period include all the basic competencies that we need to thrive throughout life, such as vision, hearing, emotional control, and cognitive competencies to interpret symbols and language.

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Funding Opportunities

Victoria Foundation: Applications for 2018/2019 Community Grants will open May 28 and close July 31.If you have questions regarding the application process, please contact us at 250-381-5532 or via email. http://victoriafoundation.bc.ca/grants-funding/grants/how-to-apply/Also check out this "Other Funding: resource page from Victoria Foundation http://victoriafoundation.bc.ca/grants-funding/other-funding-sources/Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation—Connection Grants support interdisciplinary events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives to contribute to the CRCC-prioritized national dialogue. These events and activities represent opportunities to engage and exchange knowledge on successful ways of conducting Indigenous research that are transformative and contribute to reconciliation, including holistic, interdisciplinary and distinctions-based approaches. For more information: http://acc-society.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a74eaafbca72d669859e6453b&id=8257aec2f1&e=80ecf79ac2