Right now, it feels like we're kind of on our own. It's really grassroots. It's all done by volunteerism and networking.
Families reach out to our community—the helping community that I belong to in the inner city of Winnipeg. People don't reach out to the police. They don't reach out to first responders. They don't reach out to anybody but us for wellness checks, for domestic violence, for missing children, and for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. They reach out to us. We feel like we're kind of on our own and we're trying to work with each other locally.
It would be so good to have a place, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, that we could call and say, “Help us, guide us, and support us. What's happening? Give us your expertise.”
Those command centres would be run by indigenous women who have lived experience in this topic.