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:
Walking The Prevention Circle
- Organization/Community:
Canadian Red Cross
- Location:
Victoria, British Columbia
- Website:
- Goals and Objectives:
To create safe communities free from violence and abuse, especially for children and youth.
- Target Group Description:
Aboriginal adults and social service agency employees.
- Program Description:
The program goes to a community only at the community's request. The program coordinator then discusses with the community their needs, capacity, support systems and strengths. Community members are then selected by the community to attend prevention training workshops. The graduates of these workshops become certified prevention educators and deliver prevention education to children, youth and adults within their own community. The program educator graduates are mentored, monitored and supported through community systems and the Red Cross. Where available, community Elders are asked to be a part of the process. This adds a strong cultural component to the program that works hand in hand with the preventions program to speak to a history of strength through creation and nation stories.
- Program Successes/Impact:
Gaining community recognition that they want more education and to acknowledge and work through the legacy of the residential school system.
- Key Lessons/Challenges:
Obtaining funding.
- Program in operation since:
2000.
- Program:
Ongoing.
- Date modified: