Family Violence Initiative
COMPENDIUM OF PROMISING PRACTICES TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AND INCREASE SAFETY OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN IN CANADA
INTERACTIONS WITHIN COMMUNITIES
Raising Awareness in the Broader Community
- Program Name:
Rebuilding from Resilience
- Organization / Community:
CIET Canada (Community Information, Empowerment & Transparency)
- Location:
Ottawa, Ontario
- Website:
- Goals and Objectives:
To build partnerships with communities leading to the development and testing of culturally appropriate protocols to create and assess evidence-based community-led interventions that reduce violence and abuse.
- Target Group Description:
Everyone.
- Program Description:
The program seeks to build up partnerships of community-based researchers, Aboriginal Women's Shelter Executive Directors and other stakeholders like the Native Women's Association of Canada. Through this partnering of organizations, the program's goal is to connect communities across Canada and enable them to share knowledge and resources to help their respective communities to reduce violence and abuse. The program is community specific resulting in activities and practices that will differ from community to community. This flexibility allows communities to freely utilize traditional healing and Indigenous practices, western healing methods and practices or a mixture of both.
- Program Successes/Impact:
By being led by the community, the program offers a flexibility that provides unique solutions to community specific challenges.
- Key Lessons/Challenges:
Transitioning the programs from academic to community leadership.
- Program in operation since:
2005.
- Program:
Ongoing.
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