At the Raffi Foundation, we believe that meaningful change happens through collaboration.
We partner with organizations, educators, community leaders, advocates, and businesses who share our commitment to supporting the well-being of children, families, communities, and the natural world.
Together, we expand access to learning, strengthen professional practice, and create opportunities for positive change.
Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring is located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people, specifically the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples. Salt Spring Island includes the territories of the Quw’utsun Tribes, Penelakut Tribe, Lyackson, Halalt, Tsawwassen, Tsawout, Tsartlip, Tseycum, Pauquachin, and Malahat First Nations. We also acknowledge that our work reaches across many other First Nation territories, Metis Homelands and Inuit Nunangat. We are committed to doing the personal and organizational work to address historic and ongoing injustices, and to prioritize mindful relationship-building, curiosity, and meaningful action.
Families Canada is the national association of family support centres. Our members are community-level organizations who provide hubs of free services, programs, and resources to primarily low-income and disadvantaged families in communities across Canada. Through our 500+ members, we impact the lives of approximately 500,000 families per year. For nearly 50 years, we have helped our members meet the evolving and complex needs of families
Cities across Canada are recognizing Child Honouring, the movement founded by Raffi Cavoukian that calls for children’s needs to be at the heart of decision-making.
Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria have proclaimed July 8 as Child Honouring Day, marking an important milestone for the movement and coinciding with Raffi’s birthday.
The recognition comes during a significant year for Child Honouring, as 2026 marks 50 years since Raffi released Singable Songs for the Very Young. It also comes as the Foundation continues its advocacy for stronger protections for children, including a minimum age for social media.
Right now, a child in Canada is being bullied online. Another is at risk of online sexual exploitation. Others are lying awake at 2am, scrolling through content designed by algorithms to keep them hooked.
It’s time for Canada to join countries like Norway, France, UK and Australia that are advancing or implementing age minimums and regulations.
Join the Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring in calling on federal and provincial governments to protect our kids.
ECEBC, since 1969, has worked to advance the quality and professionalism of early care and learning. As part of our ethical responsibility to the profession, we strategically commit our time and resources to educating the sector and community by, investigating, and promoting the development of strong public policies and best practices that are based in research and evidence.
Children First Canada is a national charity that aspires to create a country where children can grow up free from the barriers that prevent them from achieving their full potential – starting with the protection of their most basic rights to childhood. As a charity that’s uniquely focused on the rights of children in Canada, we conduct research and raise awareness of the issues, equip children and youth as leaders and changemakers, and unite our country around a shared vision and plan to make Canada the best place in the world for kids to grow up.
The Canadian Child Care Federation is a large, vibrant organization representing and uniting its affiliates and members from across Canada—coast to coast to coast since 1983. It is Canada’s largest national, non-profit, charitable ELCC organization. A proud bilingual member and service-based organization, focused on early learning and child care.
O.U.R Ecovillage is 25 acre “Regenerative Living Demonstration Site & Educational Research Center’. As a Non-Profit (Community Services) Cooperative, O.U.R Ecovillage is an intercultural/intergenerational/interfaith living learning reVILLAGEing space. With cultures and countries from around the planet they bring their local community precedent-setting unique built environments/technical systems, and lawful permaculture design innovation.
Unplugged Canada is a grassroots, parent-led movement helping kids thrive through meaningful connections and real-world experiences.
Unplugged Canada is guided by Jonathan Haidt’s four evidence-based principles. By delaying smartphones and social media, while promoting healthy digital habits, we give children the freedom to grow and flourish.
