Features

  • * Community engagement grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing

* Promotes cultural safety, ensures relationships are non-harmful and avoids cultural appropriation

* Wholistic community events

* Decolonized approach to research, community capacity, and policy development

* Wholistic approaches to social justice matters concerning Indigenous people

* Relationship building and repairing of past harms associated with colonialism, including research and child welfare.

* Identifies colonialism as a health determinant

* Trauma-informed and understands the impacts of intergenerational trauma

* Residential school descendant

* Seeks social change and community empowerment

* Advocacy