-They serve the kitikmeot communities

-KIA supports daycare parents by enrolling children financially with their subsidy so that it can be easier for parents to pay. -They also can pay babysitters if the child isn’t in the daycare. -Helping their communities to live a better life.

Deanna

-Canada wide

-they help children with financial issues; medically and with groceries

-community partners are important so they help any how they can with stuff they ask for through letters and emails.

Deanna

• Kitikmeot Inuit Association

What is their website?

www.kitia.ca

Who do they serve in the territory?

The KIA manages the lands in trust for Kitikmeot Inuit supporting traditional and cultural values and providing economic and social benefits to Kitikmeot Inuit. The KIA represents the Inuit people of the kitikmeot region of Nunavut.

How could this organization/group help children in your care?

• Providing Inuit traditional tools, KIA licensed child care subsidy program, baby care packages, cultually relevant early learning resources.

Why are community partners important?

• Local knowledge, leading to greater impact, building trust.

  -Annie

The organization represent approximately fourteen thousand Inuit living in thirteen communities.

Qia has assisted apporximately 200 Inuit children attending daycares.

No organization could achieve alone.

-Debbie

The D.E.A serves students,parents and community members.

By providing public educations within their district.

Ensuring decisions are grounded in Inuit societal value’s culture.

It is easier to work with organizations, provide community expertise.

-Debbie

• Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated - NTI

What is their website?

• Tunngavik.com

Who do they serve in the territory?

• Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated serves the Inuit of Nunavut settlement Area.

How could this organization/group help children in your care?

• Funding new daycare

• Training workers in Inuit culture and Language

• NTI can help children in our care by prioritizing programs rooted in Inuit knowledge, culture and languages.

Why are community partners important?

• Community partners are very important because it helps with local needs and priorities with Nunavut Inuit.

  And they provide programs, Traditional Inuit knowledges, Inuit culture, Inuit languages.

• Building trusts, fair, respect.

  -Annie

They serve Nunavut’s Children, Youth, and young adults up to 24 years of age.

This organization helps children with inclusivity of all children, they also support children with additional needs.

It is important to have community partners because you could share resources, it helps develop the community in a good way, it helps the common knowledge being shared with diverse strength. -Jean

NTI is organization that represent Inuit under the NLCA

NTI board of directors distributed funding for Inuit early learning and childcare funding. The board approved $1.38 million for inunnguinirmut tukimuattittijiit.

We have to know what is happening in the work places.

Joan

QIA are representing 51% of Inuit living in the territory. And Daycares, schools.

They help with Inuktitut resources, such as puzzles, books, puppets and traditional Inuit toys.

Partners are important to help reach more Inuit to work.

Joan

Piruqatigiit Resource Centre is an Iqaluit-based non-profit serving Nunavummiut across the territory, specifically focusing on children, youth and adults with suspected or diagnosed Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and other neurodiversities. They provide Inuit-guided support, education and advocacy to individuals, families and organizations

Piruqatigiit Resource Centre in Nunavut support children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and neurodiversities through Inuit-guided, strengths-based programming like the Uluriaralaat (ages 506) and Ajungi Club (ages 7-11). They offer tailored learning, mental health support, assessment clinics, and caregiver training, fostering independence and community connections.

Community partners are essential to the Piruqatigiit Resource Centre because they facilitate a “Tamatta” (all o furs together) approach, fostering a collaborative, wraparound network that supports individuals with FASD and their families in Nunavut. Partners help integrate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit knowledge), improve awareness, reduce stigma, and build community capacity to create culturally safe, sustainable, and equitable opportunities.

Aileen

NTI primarily serves all Nunavut Inuit who beneficiaries of the Nunavut agreement. This includes individuals aged 16 and over who can vote in NTI elections.

Funding new daycare

NTI helps children in our care by prioritizing programs rooted in Inuit knowledge, culture and language

Regional Inuit Associations NTI works in partnership with the three RIAs which manage Inuit-owned surface lands and represent Inuit interests in their respective regions: Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Kivalliq Inuit Association, Qikiqtani Inuit Association

Aileen

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They serve all people living in Nunavut that has disability.

They help children in daycares by inclusivity, providing community-based expertise, improving accessibility and vital resources. They are important because they provide community driven solutions, holistic approach to challenges and include everyone that does not feel included. -Jean