Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From our experience here in Victoria, I can tell you that unfortunately funding sometimes needs to go in a certain direction, and they're not directly sure where and how to disperse it. Sometimes it gets centralized in hubs. Sometimes friendship centres are used. Sometimes commun

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Gilakas'la. Our land-based healing.... We have an island-wide mandate. We go directly into communities and ask communities for different layers of supports. Sometimes the individuals we're bringing are connected to that community because of the work we've already done with them.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. I definitely think that in the co-development and reciprocal information finding, I would really love to have opportunities to share our own frameworks on which we're hearing from the indigenous street communities that we're serving. Over the past fe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society started out with a small dream. We built something very large, in the sense of the impact we're having in successfully housing people. I think that should be seen as not necessarily being about the roof and the four walls but a

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I do want to say how important our land-based healing over the past few years has been for the support of people who are battling not just the opioid crisis but also different forms of addiction. When I look at some of the successes.... There are individuals who have highlighted

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness spoke in Kwak'wala] [English] My name is Coreen Child. I am Kwakiutl from the northern end of Vancouver Island. I'm zooming in today from the Lekwungen territory, specifically the Esquimalt and Songhees nations. I honour them for allowing me to be here today. Thank yo