Cultural Resource Program provides children, youth, and families an access to cultural knowledge through a range of approaches, fostering positive indigenous identity. The CRC program plays a significant role in building and maintaining the cultural foundations essential to well-being and resilient. Services are culturally-reflective and prevention focused, with a focus on the need for culturally appropriate supports. All services promote connections with community, culture and tradition, and reflect holistic, strength based that support opportunities for urban children, youth, and families.
Program Goals
The cultural resource program will support wellness promotion, healing, and reconciliation through facilitating and increased access to culture for urban indigenous children youth, and families to reduce violence, reduce indigenous children involvement with the child welfare system, and improve the overall health of the communities
Program Objectives
- Building capacity through cultural knowledge and skills transmission;
- Support family resiliency through holistic healing and wellness;
- Foster safe space for knowledge transfer an cultural practice;
- Promote positive indigenous identity an healthy relationships;
- Foster connections and cultural understanding between the friendship center and broader community
Program Outcomes
- Urban indigenous children, youth and families have safe,, consistent access to elders, traditional knowledge holders, cultural supports, and activities that support their path to wellbeing;
- Development of a positive sense of indigenous identity that supports confidence building, wellbeing, and a sense of connectedness to self, family and community;
- Individuals are able to share in and contribute to their traditions, languages, and cultures;
- Children and youth are secure in their identities and can participate in and contribute to strong stable communities and families;
- Indigenous children and youth are physically;
- Reduction of violence in indigenous families; and, reduction of indigenous children and youth in the child welfare, and justice systems
Target Population
Self-identifying indigenous children, youth, young adults, adults, seniors, and their families seeking cultural resources and supportive services
Services Offered
- Direct supports
- Support TNFC Staff by building cultural and traditional capacity in a positive way is inclusive to various teachings
- Provide direct traditional-based counselling and participate in Action planning and CAS related case conferencing
- Deliver traditional medicines education, teachings, care for and use, storage, medicine bags, growing or picking
- Coordination
- Connect with elders, traditional resource people to conduct ceremonies as appropriate to the geographic areas and customs
- Coordinate culture social nights and community feasts, elder socials, and elder appreciation activities and elder, youth knowledge exchange, mentorship activities
- Provide space and opportunities for traditional arts and crafting
