text: The regional Maamuu Uhpichinaausuutauu committee supports or delivers programs and services to children 0-5 years of age. Representatives from the Child and Family Services of the Cree Nation Government, several departments of the Cree Health Board, the Cree Nation Youth Council and the Cree Women of Eeyou Istchee Association have a seat on this regional early childhood committee which we now refer to as Maamuu Uhpichinaausuutauu which translates to "let's raise our children together".
  The goal of this conference was to invite parents from all communities in Eeyou Istchee to come and learn about parenting through culture and knowledge shared from our elders and guest speakers as well as from a team of professionals from various organizations. The conference covered teachings from the past and present, as well as where we would like to see the future of healthy Cree parenting.
  We are very happy that we were able to have this conference for the parents, elders, facilitators and EVERYONE who contributed and committed their time to be part of Maamuu Uhpichinaausuutaau 1st Regional Conference for parents. We envision having something very similar like this down the road. Feedback from participants was very inspiring. In the evaluation of the three days, we asked the participants to fill out a short two question "Feedback Form". We categorized them by: