Early Childhood Development

The Early Childhood Development Program works in partnership with our families, promoting the healthy growth and development of all urban aboriginal children from preconception to six years. We encourage the entire family to work with the children to build better communication skills, thus providing them higher literacy and better social skills giving them positive relationships with their peers and allowing children to mature into high self-esteem, achieving adults.

Licensed Infant Toddler Program:

Operates 4 days a week, Monday-Thursday, 9am-4pm. We are licensed for up to 4 infants in our program at a time.

Licensed Preschool Program:

Also operates 4 days a week, Monday to Thursday- 9am-4pm. We are licensed for up to 16 pre-k children in our program at a time. We have a number of our children that participate at Walnut Park a few hours a day to get our pre-k’s ready for the Kindergarten transition.

Our students do tours of the public schools and meet the principle and kindergarten teachers and do gym time to get the feeling of the bigger schools.

Thomas Robinson Consulting:

Thomas Robinson Consulting provides a worker that helps any of our children that need extra support in our Preschool. They assist us here 4 days a week.

Elders:

We have 3 elders that participate in our Preschool Program and Infant Toddler program 4 days a week to teach our children Wet’suwet’en language.

Parent-tot Kitchen:

On Fridays, our program provides the ingredients and our families cook a meal to enjoy together.

Parent groups:

We offer parent groups three days a week. Our parents do crafts, learn different parenting styles, learning to deal with difficult behaviour, nutrition, traditional parenting with elders, self- care, harvesting food in the summer months- fish, berries, medicine harvesting, and more.

Contact

7620 Highway 16 West
Smithers, British Columbia
V0J 2N2
250-847-1834