They help with child care services like childcare subsidies.

The Board also approved funding for the following projects: $5 million dollars each for renovations to the Long Term Care Facilities in Arviat, Gjoa Haven, and Iglulik; $4 million dollars to Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) for the development of Laboratory and Research Capacity with the Training Centre in Pond Inlet; $1 million dollars to support the development of a comprehensive infrastructure needs assessment; and $15 million dollars to the QIA for the construction of three daycares in the Qikiqtaaluk.

• Why are community partners important?

They are important because without their support the community wouldn’t be able to build or have the daycares we have today, our children wouldn’t be be able to get the support they have from the Educators. Having these partners help us educators to have a better understanding in what we should be doing in the daycare facilities.

-Hillary

Website: QIA.ca

What do they serve in the territory?: culture and community programs, training and jobs, youth developments funding.

How could this organization help the children in your care?: Strengthening Early Childhood Development in the Qikiqtani Region

In 2018, QIA launched a new program, Ipitiki, aimed at delivering culturally and linguistically relevant early childcare resources.

The Ipitiki Program includes:

• Resources to support Elders’ involvement in daycares

• Family literacy packages

• A daycare conference and training

Customized training for daycare board members

Why are community partners important?

They are important because these organizations helps shape our future children to thrive in our Inuit culture, The funding also helps with supplies that the daycare facilities need, the funding also states that they also help with child care subsidies which helps parents who are in school to receive the payment they might be able to pay with school fundings they are receiving..

-Hillary

Kitia.ca

The Kitikmeot Inuit Organization serves the Inuit in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut.

This organization could help the children that are in the Kitikmeot region by getting elders to go to their daycare and/or pre-school for cultural preservation and education purposes.

Piruqatigiit.ca

They serve Nunavummiut of all ages. Specifically those with FASD and/or other neurodiversity’s and their families.

This organization could help children who are suffering with FASD, ADHD or autism in the daycare we work at.

Community partners are important so that if we need support or other information that we don’t completely understand, we can ask for help from them.

https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1568396042341/1568396159824

Who they serve: First Nations, Inuit and Métis children ages 0 to 19.

How they can help support the children in my care, these children can be supported with the following:

•Health supplies, services and equipment

•Therapy services

•Funding for food, indoor/outdoor clothing, furniture

•School supplies, tutoring services, specialized school transportation

Why community partners are important:

It helps children benefit from the listed above. If the child/ren have trouble with one thing or the other, Jordan’s Principle is there to help. Partnering with organizing helps build trust, help grow together and thrive for our children; our future.

-Angel Ruth

Jordan Principle ensures First Nations children are able to help with what they need, when they need it. First Nation are usually left with waiting for support, they desperately need or even denied on supports. This includes education, health, recreation and culture and language. Jordan Principle helps First Nation with the needs they need. Communities partner is important because when we become one, everyone helps others in the community, such as search and rescue we have in Baker Lake. Helping out schools for sports and those that travel for any events.

Holly

https://rcybc.ca/key-issues/early-years-and-family-support/

Who they serve in the territory: early years and youth

How they can help children in my care:

Supporting indigenous-led programs

Supporting kinship and peers

Disability services based on needs and not based on diagnosis.

Why it is important to partner:

They partner up with families and early years organizations to strengthen the early years education system.

-Angel Ruth

Website: bakerlake.ca

Who do they serve in the territory: Everybody

How they could help children in my care: Providing municipal services to the daycare and by providing snow clearing on the daycare’s lot.

Why are community partners important? They are important because it takes more than one organization that have different services to keep the daycare running. Not every organization takes care of everything we need to have a daycare running.

-Lisa

Website: piruqatigiit.ca

Who do they serve in the territory: Nunavummiut with FASD/Neurodiversities and their families

How they could help children in my care: to help the community become FASD/neurodiversity aware, to provide resources to help the FASD/neurodiversity children experience improved quality of life and equitable opportunities to participate in places of learning, working and gathering in our community.

Why are community partners important? Working together for the same goal, which is to support the children in our community as they are the future leaders in our community.

-Lisa