Childcare Week
Nunavik Childcare Employee Consultation
13 cooks, 12 janitors, 33 educators, 14 centre directors and 21 board members were consulted in childcare matters.
Thank you to all participants!
Graduation Directors 2024
On November 23rd, 2024, 7 participants received attestations of college studies in Management of Childcare Centres. The graduates are Gloria Lingard , Quara Amamatuak, Jana Lingard, Cassandra Tabor, Qullik Sequaluk, Susie Moreau and Jeannie Makiuk. This is the second cohort of the college program that was launched by the KRG Childcare Section March 9, 2020 in close cooperation with the CEGEP Saint-Félicien. The community-based training program is designed to teach participants more about communications, leadership, the role of managers, and how to better express Inuit culture in a childcare center setting. The program was delivered in multiple one-week sessions over a period of 4 years due to COVID.
Graduation Educators 2024
On November 13th 2024, four childcare educators in Quaqtaq received their attestation of college studies in Educators in Native and Inuit Childcare Services from the CEGEP Saint-Félicien. We would like to congratulate Elisapie Oovaut, Bridget Annie Oovaut, Jeannie Angnuatuk and Amelia Aloupa.
Nunavik childcare and language advocate wins 2024 ITK Award for Inuit Excellence
October 23, 2024
OTTAWA – Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami congratulates Julie-Ann Berthe, a dedicated childcare and language advocate from Kuujjuaq, and winner of our 2024 Award for Inuit Excellence.
The prize was announced during ITK’s annual general meeting in Inuvik on September 18, 2024, and presented to Berthe in Ottawa on Oct. 22.
Berthe was pregnant with her second child when she got her first job with the Kativik Regional Government as a childcare technical assistant – doing secretarial, reception and translation work to support a small team overseeing four childcare centres.
Twenty-five years later, Berthe is now Assistant Director in the KRG’s Sustainable Employment Department in charge of its Childcare Section, which manages 19 childcare centres in 14 communities. Her team helps to ensure Nunavik childcare centres are safe, culturally appropriate and well managed and that includes providing expertise for financial, staff and building management, insurance, nutrition, health, hygiene, board activities, and laws and regulations.
It’s a huge and important responsibility but she did not expect to win an award for it.
- I thought it was a scam because I’m not used to getting those kinds of messages. I was in shock, said Berthe of outreach from ITK to inform her of the prize. I had good parents raising me and you just do what you have to do to help your people.
