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CPA - Walking The Prevention Pathway: Promoting Healing through Indigenous Community Mobilization

For over two decades, the Canadian Red Cross has been working alongside Indigenous communities to enable understanding and build capacity to prevent violence in the lives of children and youth. Supported by SSHRC, we have worked with four Indigenous communities in a research project to study the processes of change through Red Cross programming. In this workshop, we are eager to share how and what we learned from Indigenous communities about moving along the pathway from the cycle of violence to the circle of wellness. Healing and prevention can be supported by acknowledging the historical harms, understanding current violence and expanding understanding of wellness. We will share an engagement tool as well as a web tool we developed for learning about the cascading layers of harm of colonization from contact to the present. We will explore the community change model that emerged from research with communities. Based on community members’ perceptions of strengths and challenges in creating change for safe environments, we revised the community change programming. We will explore this model as a process for preventing violence and promoting healthy development of Indigenous children and youth. Communities have taught us that culturally attuned supports are essential for the movement beyond the harms associated with colonization and toward wellness. This presentation was originally delivered as part of the Workshop offerings presented for CPA's Virtual Convention in the Summer of 2020.