Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Clearly, one of the four key initiatives that we’ve been delivering through the Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative is early childhood and child care. So those are the areas that we’ve been tackling at the community level. It does consist of a variety of parties, such as the IRC, Dene Nation, the NWT Metis Nation, Native Women’s Association, NWTTA, Literacy Council, Aurora College, superintendents, DEC, DEAs, our department, early childhood and school services, and the Early Childhood Development Framework is coming, but the ASA, the Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative, covers not only schools but at the home level before a baby is being born. So there’s been a lot of discussion around this area by the people at the community level; the parents, the superintendents, the teachers, the principals, the youth. Even the youth have talked about how we can nurture and support the young early childhood programming. It does cover that area, as well. We’ll continue to work the linkage between those two programmings.
Jackson Lafferty on Question 74-16(6): Early Childhood Development Strategy And The Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative
In the Legislative Assembly on May 13th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 74-16(6): Early Childhood Development Strategy And The Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative
Oral Questions
May 12th, 2011
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