Provides supportive services grounded in Indigenous teachings for youth, individuals, and families.
Service offers:
- supportive services grounded in Indigenous teachings for youth, individuals, and families
Supports for Youth include:
- Strengthening Home Fires: a housing program that supports Indigenous youth to identify, access, secure, and maintain housing
- Oskâpêwis: supports Indigenous youth who may be at-risk of involvement with the criminal justice system through connection to culture, ceremony, and land-based teachings
- Diamond Willow Youth Lodge: youth hub that serves as a safe, culturally grounded space for Indigenous youth to gather, access resources, and connect with their culture and community
- Nipisis Foster Care Program: specialized Indigenous foster care program designed to meet the individualized needs of Indigenous youth in a variety of family based homes
- re:Vision: employment program for Indigenous youth who are not currently working or in school, to bridge the gap between Indigenous youth and inclusive employers by fostering meaningful employment opportunities and promoting cultural understanding in the workplace
Supports for Families include:
- Tawaw Family Resource Networks (East & West): hub-and-spoke model of service delivery to offer a range of early intervention and prevention services grounded in Indigenous culture and teachings
- Nitsanak Mamawintowak: provides parents, babies and their young children with home-based parenting support and education from Indigenous and western perspectives
Supports for Community Include:
- Ka-pe-kiwehtahat: culturally grounded housing support services, that seeks to support access to safe, affordable housing options and prevent housing breakdown for Indigenous people in the Calgary community
- Nanatawiho Kamik: integrates traditional teachings and offerings with clinical mental health supports in community to create a holistic approach toward healing and wellbeing for Indigenous people in Calgary and Area
- Land-Based Healing: ceremonies and activities focus on protecting the smudge, healing the spirit and building relatives by engaging with traditional languages, songs, stories, and teachings within the natural surroundings of Mother Earth
- Honoring Our Lost Spirits: provides culturally-based community supports to the survivors, families and loved ones of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, men, boys and two-spirit people (MMIWGMB2S), on their path to healing