Grant: Team Grant: Indigenous Gender and Wellness Team Grant

"Remember Right Relationships" is a three-year mix methods Indigenous, community-based participatory research (CBPR) project that seeks to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by Indigenous women and gender diverse people in Edmonton by developing, implementing, and measuring the effectiveness of Indigenous culture and land based interventions designed to strengthen cultural connectedness. Our diverse team of researchers, in collaboration with Elders and community advisors, will engage with participants to co-create urban (during the winter) and land-based (spring/summer/fall) GBV interventions including three land-based ceremonial and teaching culture camps led by invited traditional knowledge keepers. Winter activities will include traditional teaching and knowledge translation gatherings, participant digital storytelling, and peer support group development. We hypothesize that by enhancing cultural knowledge and connectedness through rich culture based activities, participants will experience improved wellness, thereby mitigating the role of GBV in their lives. We will invite everyone to engage with several Indigenous measures of cultural connectedness and holistic wellness to investigate the relationship holistic well-being and cultural connectedness; analyzing the data using hierarchical multiple linear (HML) regression analysis. AtlasTi software will aid our analysis of qualitative data. We anticipate outcomes to include a statistically significant increase in cultural connectedness and well-being among participants, and validation through robust qualitative analysis. Knowledge mobilization will include journal articles, webinars, website and social media updates, and community dissemination events. We anticipate the findings will lead to GBV wise practices service delivery recommendations and shifts in our own service provision towards wise Indigenous practices, which we will share with others through presentations, reports, and journal articles.