Indigenous

BC CRN has always worked as allies and partners with Indigenous groups who work to keep their communities safe by:

• Funding and supporting development of Indigenous led and directed Community Response Networks (CRNs)
• Co-sponsoring provincial dialogues with Indigenous agencies around the Common Experience Payments to prevent financial abuse
• Introducing training to on reserve Indigenous communities
• Equipping Regional Mentors with appropriate, culturally safe practices and materials

BC CRN and local CRNs are committed to aligning prevention and education efforts to the outcomes and findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report of 2015.

Documents

• BC CRN Statement – Calls for Justice in the Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
• BC CRN Statement – Resolution in Response to the Findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report
• BC CRN Statement – September 30 Commemoration
• BC CRN Statement – Unmarked Graves of 215 Children in Kamloops, BC (by Derek Thompson)
• BC CRN Statement – Upholding Calls to Justice
• Being Least Intrusive: An Orientation to Practice for Front-Line Workers Responding to Abuse of Aboriginal Older Adults (Struthers & Neufeld)
• Being Least Intrusive: An Orientation to Practice in Responding to Situations of Abuse, Neglect and Self-Neglect of Vulnerable First Nations Adults
• Guide to the Pronunciation of Indigenous Communities and Organizations in BC – Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
• Indigenous Cultural Safety – Somewhere to Start (2023)
• Promising Approaches for Addressing/Preventing Abuse of Older Adults in First Nations Communities (Struthers, Martin & Leaney)
• Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• Right Relationship: From Elders to Policies (Tonya Gomes & Dr. Lee Brown)
• Stopping Abuse – Responses from First Nations Communities (Collaborative Dialogue March 2007)
• First Nations ReAct – Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

Helpful Organizations

• 24-Hour KUU-US Crisis Line Society
• BC Elders Communication Center Society
• First Nations Health Authority

Other Web Links

• BC First Nation Faces COVID-19 Outbreak: Community Leaders Issue Racism Warnings – The Globe and Mail
• Gitxsan Way of Knowing About Dementia – First Nations Health Authority
• Grandview Woodlands Elder International – YouTube Video

(Feature image retrieved from the Government of Canada, National Indigenous History Month, 2023.)