The focus of the Indigenous Health Care and Safety course is on personal wellness and the planning, establishment and maintenance of a safe and healthy environment in programs for indigenous infants and toddlers and exceptional children. Topics include breastfeeding, babies’ first foods using traditional Indigenous approaches, safe food handling, planning nutritious traditional snacks and meals for infants and toddlers, diapering and toileting, injury prevention and hazard identification, illness management with infants and toddlers, modelling healthy practices and utilizing Indigenous community health resources, as well as specific disabilities and health-related issues. The course goal is to provide opportunities to learn about caring for groups of infants and toddlers and exceptional children through the promotion of each child’s health, safety and wellbeing, including traditional Indigenous approaches and perspectives.
