Education Mode

This mode centers our earliest learners in our community, building a stronger foundation for the next generations. When we create healthy environments for our pregnant people, infants and young children, we create healthy environments for everyone around them as well as for our future generations. When we center our tribal traditional knowledge, strengths and wellness, we continue to heal our communities. This improves the overall growth and development of our young ones, creating positive ripple effect throughout our community.

Goals

• Promote healthy pregnancies
• Improve quality of life and service delivery for people and families impacted by neuro and environmental trauma
• Collaborate closely with Community Engagement mode to plan and implement intervention approaches
• Information and assistance around neuro and environmental trauma
• Family Supports, such as connecting families, early childhood programs and education services to information around culturally specific supports for programming, education, parenting and play. This also includes supporting families in intervention services and school advocacy.

Cedar Sapling Program

The Cedar Sapling Program provides culturally-specific, community-centered home visiting services for expectant caregivers and families with children birth through five (5). Family Advocates share child development, caregiving education, and family well-being resources and information through individualized visits and community-based gatherings.

Childcare Center

Coming soon!

Barbie's Village Childcare Center will offer Native specific programming and support families with children and infants, ages 5 and under. This childcare will also be a connection point for families to engage with wrap-around support with other FGC programming and our partner organizations.

Birth Work

Many tribal, Indigenous, Native communities have had birth workers in their communities since time immemorial. These honorable and revered community members held traditional wisdom and strength for the people who they served. This work has been impacted by colonization, however it continues. Birth work in the Native community is a critical need and supports healthy babies, healthy pregnancies and reduces the amount of birthing complications. The FGC is committed to creating space for Native community members to be able to provide this service to the community.

Birth work includes prenatal, birth and postpartum support. FGC also upholds the traditional wisdom that our newborns and infants are sacred, therefore we host many gatherings to support each other in collective healing. As such, the FGC hosts annual baby showers for the Native community as well as periodic events promoting safe sleep and creating healthy development environments. Cradleboard making, Positive Indian Parenting classes and moccasin making are but a few of such events that have taken place. Please follow our social media accounts and sign up for messaging services to stay updated on these occurrences.

In winter of 2025, FGC hosted its first doula symposium. Over 40 participants from across the state gathered in a hybrid model (virtual and in person) to discuss best practices for supporting birthing families. This included members of the Native community, current birth workers, pregnant folks, people who were interested in becoming birth workers, community organizers and lactation consultants. Out of the symposium, several community needs and desires were highlighted. The community voices came together to envision a pathway for the FGC to build the following items:

• Doula Hub for the Native community
• Doula network
• Lactation Support
• Native specific birth worker curriculum development