Grants and Contributions

Replacement of 33 Windows at Colleen Ermen House Community Residential Facility (CRF).

Upgrade site water infrastructure to provide an improved source of water and a water treatment system, including, drilling a new water well, potable water testing of the new well, purchase and installation of a new water treatment plant for site.

Electrical, plumbing, lightning, stairways, fire suppression systems, bathroom accessibility, flooring, finishings, fixtures, windows and patio doors upgrades as well as the addition of an outdoor gazebo to provide meeting and program space.

The project is intended to organize, facilitate and support a national Section 84 gathering in Vancouver, BC in the fall of 2025. Which will allow for meaningful consultations with partners and stakeholders in order to enhnace the section 84 process and releases for the Pacific Region.

The project is intended to provide supports for Indigenous offenders to successsfully exit the gang they are associated with, including help to navigate the administrative and real-world factors of exiting that lifestyle, to be able to provide meaningful sustanability for their ways of living, and to address the voids in supports that Indigenous offenders face due to intergenerational trauma and colonial impacts.

The project will create programs and services specifically tailored to support the reintegration of Metis offenders. The project will provide clients with wrap-around support and assistance in accessing direct services through MN-S' social infastructure program and services, including: support system navigation; housing services and referrals to appropriate services which will include counselling, parenting support, eduactional support, advocacy, and job readiness.

The project is intended to have Social Liaison Officers who provide support to clients with urban/community transition by working in partnership with Indigenous communities and correctional stakeholders in order to promote community reintegration. They advise and provides support directly to clients, their families and the host community to facilitate the transition. They collaborate with stakeholders to support and ensure a client's success and establish an appropriate reintegration plan under the section 84 process.

The project is intended to offer up to one-year reintegrative supports through intervention services, programming, outreach services, family engagement, recreational activities, access to addiction programming, on site counselling, cultural engagement, advocacy and mediation, employment, and educational supports so they can transition back to school or meaningful employment.

The project is intended to support alternatives to Incarceration focuses explicitly on re-integration efforts through a re-intagration worker that provides culturally responsive practices related to parole and re-integration efforts. The reintegration worker will work purposefully between the community, families, the instituation in the best interests of the incarcerated and their co-developed plan for successful and long-term positive re-integration.

The program will provide a range of interventions and services to women offenders who are mothers along with their infants and children, to nurture the mother-child bond. Aboriginal worldview, understands the critical need for children and parents to bond, always reunify and work towards healthy relationships. The program will be delivered both with a residential component and visiting program for expecting mothers up to and including mothers of school age children.