Attention Gitxsan Youth: The Wii’O’om Niin Community Response Network is Looking for a New Logo
Gitxsan youth aged 30 years and under are invited to submit their designs for the Wii’O’om Niin Community Response Network (CRN) to help Indigenize the
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A Tale of Two Generations: Bridging the Disconnect through Storytelling
“Okay, Boomer.” “Snowflake. Slacker.” Anyone else noticing the quiet, yet ugly exchanges between the generations in the last little while? Especially between seniors and millennials?
Decolonizing WEAAD: Celebrating World Elder BIG LOVE Awareness Day
For this year’s World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), several BC Community Response Networks (CRNs) took a pledge on June 15 to end elder abuse.
Campaigns & Professional Development Events
BC CRN Online Workshop Offering: It’s Not Right! July 5, 2022, 12 – 1 PM (PDT) on Zoom In this workshop, you will learn how
CRNs At Work
Tea Time Live with the Houston, Smithers, and Wii O’om’ Niin Hazelton CRNs Through the Magical Backyard Medicines program, which developed on the traditional territories
Volunteer of the Month: Tianna Rasmussen, Co-Coordinator, Smithers CRN
The town of Smithers in Northwestern, BC is part of the traditional territory of the Witsuwit’en First Nation and is known nationally as a hub
Volunteer of the Month: Lorraine Half, Wii O’o’m Niin Hazelton CRN
Meet Lorraine of the Gitxsan Nation in Northwestern BC. (“My Indigenous name is Baby Skin.”) She is a well-respected traditional medicine woman in her community,
BC CRN Spotlight: Belinda Lacombe, Regional Mentor – Northwestern BC
BC CRN’s team of Regional Mentors helps communities establish Community Response Networks (CRNs). Mentors provide ongoing local support in the coordination of responses to abuse,
Statement from BC CRN Board Member, Derek Thompson: Reflecting on the Unmarked Graves of 215 Children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School
215. There is no more of a profound truth than having to come to terms with the death of a child. Equal to this burden
Decolonizing Community Spaces
To decolonize: The process of deconstructing colonial ideologies of the superiority and privilege of Western thought and approaches. On the one hand, decolonization involves dismantling
