Grants and Contributions

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

This project will coordinate Nunatsiavut regional endeavours for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls by supporting access to a continuum of culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed supports, strengthening community capacity to respond to complex grief and trauma, and providing direct and indirect support to impacted individuals and families throughout the region. This work may include the direct provision of individual, family, or group counseling; assistance accessing pertinent supportive and therapeutic services; support and direction to service providers on the provision of trauma-informed, culturally appropriate services and collaboration with the provincial Family Information Liaison Unit services.

The Kativiik Program will reach out to Inuit family members directly affected by the experience of losing a loved one who is either missing or has been murdered. A trained and qualified Inuit outreach worker will provide culturally responsive, community-based, Inuit-specific, trauma-informed counselling. The outreach worker will also conduct Inuit specific peer support groups with the family members and provide access to Inuit Elders when they request traditional healing. The worker will also act as a liaison and link Inuit families to appropriate services offered in the community for more long-term supports. The Program will also include support group meetings, community meetings to hear feedback, concerns or new issues and a community dinner to support and honour the strength and resilience of the Inuit community in Winnipeg.

The Recipient will plan, deliver and host a two day capacity building gathering for Indigenous justice workers, partners and other stakeholders in Alberta. The focus will be on diversion processes, building partnerships and training in the area of grief.

Provide financial assistance to an individual Canadian victim of a specified serious violent crime in a foreign jurisdiction for emergency situations of undue hardship where no other source of financial assistance is available (specified categories of crimes are homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault or assault with serious personal violence, or threat of serious violence, including against a child) or to an individual support person to accompany, attend with or support a Canadian victimized in a foreign jurisdiction. A total of 18 individuals received financial assistance in this regard.

Provide financial assistance to an individual victim or an individual support person to attend with or support a victim (as defined in the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and who are registered with Correctional Service Canada or the Parole Board of Canada), of offenders under federal jurisdiction/supervision who incur expenses to attend Parole Board of Canada hearings in respect of the offender who harmed them. A total of 96 individuals received financial assistance in this regard.

Ganohkwasra Family Assault Support Services will facilitate healing circles and group and individual counselling sessions with the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. They will also work in conjunction with the Ontario Family Information Liaison Unit to provide information/details to these families when requested. Further, they will coordinate and organize MMIWG Family Gatherings, fostering traditional teachings and communal activities. They also plan to facilitate October 4th Sisters in Spirit events with the families of the Six Nations Community.

The families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls program will offer trauma-informed counselling and emotional, cultural and practical support to family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in their own community. The program will offer a whole / family centered approach to families with complex needs and will focus on safety, self-care, mental health and physical wellbeing. The program will recognize the need for physical and emotional safety, by providing a safe space that is recognized by the community as a space for healing. The project team will have a broad knowledge of available resources and assistance programs to refer families to services they need.

Pacific Association of First Nations Women will provide culturally responsive, trauma informed community-based services for families of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver. They will provide counseling, traditional healing practices and ceremonies led by Indigenous therapists, traditional healers and wisdom keepers. Their services to the families will include cultural teachings and information workshop sessions, family gatherings, healing circles, support groups and referrals to/from the Family Information Liaison Unit of British Columbia.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)