Katie Nachbaur oversees the Head Start program through the Ma-Mow-We-Tak Friendship Centre, which helps prepare young Indigenous children for school. She's pictured on graduation day on June 22, 2023.

As a child, I attended Head Start, a federally funded program for low-income families. Since it began as an eight-week project in 1965, Head Start has served more than 30 million children.