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.

Now, with funding in place, classes for infants and toddlers are set to begin July 28, and preschool programming will resume Aug. 11. “Never been more proud of our Child Care Associates team.