Grants and Contributions

The Empowering Victims and Overcoming Harm Project will work within and enhance the Southern Chiefs Organization's (SCO) First Nation Justice Program and provide victim-centered supports to First Nation victims and survivors of crime within 33 SCO member First Nations.

Located at 450 Portage Avenue in Winnepeg, Manitoba, the Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn “It Is Visible”, Southern Chiefs’ Organization Hudsons’s Bay Proposal Project consists of a retrofit on the historic Hudson’s Bay building, in order to operate their essential program and services in an Urban Indigenous setting. Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is one of the largest First Nation aggregates in Canada, and one that works very closely and at the direction of its Chiefs.

The Southern Chiefs' Organization Inc. (SCO) aims to develop First Nations policing options for the Member Nations it represents. This feasibility study will support the creation of regional Indigenous policing models as well as identify training gaps for SCO First Nation Safety Officers (FNSOs) and providing targeted training to enhance their ability to serve SCO communities effectively.

As part of Budget 2021, Self-Administered Feasibility Assessments were identified as an area of important investment. Southern Chiefs’ Organization Inc. was identified by the First Nations and Inuit Policing Program (FNIPP) Federal-Provincial-Territorial working group as one of the organizations to be selected for this project.

Southern Chiefs’ Organization Inc. is conducting development work in support of the development of a new self-administered police service to serve thirty four (34) SCO First Nations throughout Manitoba.

The Southern Chiefs' Organization Inc. seeks to establish self-administered police options for the Member Nations it represents. The feasibility study will support the development of self-administered regional indigenous police options that will seek to better serve their communities.

The Southern Chiefs' Organization (SCO) Gladue Report Framework Development project, in collaboration with partners, Justice Canada and Manitoba Justice, will bring together all 34 Chiefs and other justice stakeholders to discuss and develop a framework for Gladue report writing to citizens of the 34 First Nations communities in southern Manitoba.

To build Indigenous and local communities' capacity to support the development of partnership and collaborative opportunities between TC and Indigenous groups, as well as amongst Indigenous groups for the purpose of administrating and implementing elements of the transportation system. To create opportunities for Indigenous groups to gather information, provide their views, and collect, protect and utilize Indigenous knowledge for the purposes of implementing TC initiatives, obtain responses to their concerns about decisions and inform decision makers in their consideration of potential adverse impact on Indigenous rights before making decisions. To encourage and support the participation of and collaboration with Indigenous groups in TC's consultation and engagement processes regarding TC's programs, policies, processes, regulations, legislations and directives.