There has never been a health or an education program designed specifically to the Avá-Canoeiro of the Canoanã Indigenous Post. Such lack of care caused the deaths of four of the Indians contacted in 1973, shortly after their arrival in the Post, killed by diseases against which they did not have organic immunity.

The Avá-Canoeiro children were to attend the Post's school, which is designed exclusively to the bilingual teaching of Javaé and Portuguese - a serious problem for them since the Javaé speak a completely different language. That probably explains why the Avá-Canoeiro children practically do not go to school. Currently, all Avá-Canoeiro are illiterate. The younger ones manage, with much difficulty, draw their names.