Clever Raven Daycare

Clever Raven is an Aboriginal Headstart program and aims to be a community hub for families and the broader community. Families are heavily involved and fully welcomed in the space, and children’s ancestry and cultural traditions are supported and actively brought into the programming. The childcare program aims to create lasting relationships between children, the space, and the community. Young children at Clever Raven are immersed in an Indigenous-centred space in which stories, songs, languages, art, and traditions from the Indigenous groups in which they belong are passed on. The hope is that the children gain both personal strength from this and transmit it out into the broader community throughout their lives. With support from a social worker, continuity is ensured when children graduate to public school - links are created with Indigenous education workers to support children’s ongoing learning in Indigenous-centred ways.