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Contribution: Victims Fund

MINWAASHIN LODGE: INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S SUPPORT CENTRE

$700,000.00

Healing Our Spirits, Reclaiming Our Traditions

EF 2024-25 · 2024-06-20

Résumé
The organization will create a dedicated position to provide trauma-informed, culture-based counselling to families of missing and murdered Indigenous people. The counsellor will maintain a caseload of 25 clients and engage in outreach activities with other service providers. They will provide psychoeducation on the epidemic and connection to colonial policies, as well as therapeutic space for community members to process and heal from trauma. The program will also offer seasonal land-based healing ceremonies to increase access to culturally appropriate healing supports for those impacted by the crisis. The aim is to reduce intergenerational transmission of trauma and support cultural reclamation and reconnection to community and culture.
Programme
Victims Fund
Emplacement
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Other
Type
Contribution
Source
Proactive Disclosure - Grants and Contributions

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Additional Information
Cost Centres: Community Supports Healing for Families (CSHF)
Additional Information (French)
Centres de coûts : Soutiens communautés guérison familles (SCGF)
Agreement End Date
2029-03-31
Agreement Number
13016878
Agreement Start Date
2024-06-20
Agreement Title
Healing Our Spirits, Reclaiming Our Traditions
Agreement Title (French)
Guérir nos esprits, Récupérer nos traditions
Agreement Type
Contribution
Agreement Value
$700,000.00
Amendment Number
0
Description
The organization will create a dedicated position to provide trauma-informed, culture-based counselling to families of missing and murdered Indigenous people. The counsellor will maintain a caseload of 25 clients and engage in outreach activities with other service providers. They will provide psychoeducation on the epidemic and connection to colonial policies, as well as therapeutic space for community members to process and heal from trauma. The program will also offer seasonal land-based healing ceremonies to increase access to culturally appropriate healing supports for those impacted by the crisis. The aim is to reduce intergenerational transmission of trauma and support cultural reclamation and reconnection to community and culture.
Description (French)
L'organisme créera un poste spécialisé pour offrir des services de counseling axés sur les traumatismes et la culture aux familles des Autochtones disparus et assassinés. Le conseiller maintiendra une charge de travail de 25 clients et participera à des activités de sensibilisation avec d'autres fournisseurs de services. Ils fourniront une psychoéducation sur l'épidémie et un lien avec les politiques coloniales, ainsi qu'un espace thérapeutique pour que les membres de la communauté traitent et guérissent d'un traumatisme. Le programme offrira également des cérémonies de guérison terrestres saisonnières afin d'accroître l'accès à des soutiens de guérison adaptés à la culture pour les personnes touchées par la crise. L'objectif est de réduire la transmission intergénérationnelle des traumatismes et de soutenir la remise en état culturelle et la reconnexion à la communauté et à la culture.
Expected Results
Enhanced capacity to deliver appropriate services that respond to victim and survivor needs.
Expected Results (French)
Capacités renforcées de prestation de services appropriés et adaptés aux besoins des victimes et survivants
Organization Code
jus
Organization
Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Program Name
Victims Fund
Program Name (French)
Fonds d'aide aux victimes
Program Purpose
The Victims Fund, supports the Department of Justice’s mandate to ensure that Canada is a just and law-abiding society with a fair, relevant and accessible Canadian justice system.
Program Purpose (French)
Le Fonds d’aide aux victimes, appuie le mandat du ministère de la Justice d'assurer, au Canada, l'existence d'une société juste et respectueuse des lois, dotée d'un système de justice canadien efficace, équitable et accessible à tous.
Recipient City
Ottawa
Recipient Country
CA
Recipient Legal Name
MINWAASHIN LODGE: INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S SUPPORT CENTRE
Recipient Postal Code
K1G 4J8
Recipient Province or Territory
ON
Recipient Type
A
Reference Number
119-2024-2025-Q1-00055