Spring 2021 Priorities

Here are our 3 Spring 2021 Priorities:

EQUITY/ACCESS (time slots, park locations):

We will be offering some after school and weekend time slots for programs.
We will partner with House of Friendship to offer a Tales and Trails program at Chandler Mowat Community Centre (a new initiative), and will offer programs at Breithaupt Park again.

FAMILY PROGRAMS:

Building on the success of our family-based programs, we plan to host 3 Tales and Trails groups for children 5 and under and their caregivers (HNA, Breithaupt Park, Chandler Mowat).
Naturehood Play Advocates - this is a new initiative and experiment.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP:

Youth will assist in programs, gaining job experience and providing wonderful role models for the children in the groups.

We love this land where we play and learn: the sun that warms us, the trees that give us shade, beauty and places to climb. The plants that give us food. The creatures who teach us about how to live in a good way. Thank you to the bugs and turtles, the great blue herons and the tadpoles. To the fairy shrimp, the tree swallows, the pond snails, the newts. To the Jack-in-the-pulpits, the trout lilies, the goldenrod, the asters - all of you are so beautiful and teach us so much. To the water, which is life - the ponds, creeks and the Grand River watershed.
We are honoured to walk, learn, and play on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Chonnonton Nations, treaty lands of the Haudenosaunee. Grateful for the ongoing care, stewardship, and teachings from Indigenous Peoples that help us walk gently on this earth. We are committed to the ongoing process of decolonization through partnering with local Indigenous educators in our facilitation, learning about the past and about good ways forward together, and respecting the land as our First Teacher.