Cultural
Resource
Coordinator
Program Goal
To provide access to culture and culture-based programs and services to urban Indigenous children, youth and families in order to foster a strong sense of well-being and positive Indigenous identity.
Program Objective
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To build upon the skills and knowledge of local and traditional Indigenous ways of life
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To facilitate access to culture and cultural knowledge with children, youth and families that promotes healing and wellness
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To ensure safe transmission of cultural knowledge
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To promote a positive sense of Indigenous identity among children, youth and families
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To foster connections of cultural knowledge and ways of being, both within the Dryden Native Friendship Centre and with broader community by promoting reconciliation
Program Activities
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Facilitate talking, teaching and healing circles, and providing service and supports for Indigenous children, youth and families
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Provide direct traditional-based counselling
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Provide access to traditional healing and ceremonies
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Acquire, maintain and care for education tools and resources such as language resources, history books, art and traditional and sacred items
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Deliver traditional medicines' education through teachings, use, caring for, storage, medicine bags, and growing and picking
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Deliver traditional food education through teachings on health benefits, harvesting, growing, preparing and storing
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Promotion of language restoration
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Transmission of cultural knowledge
