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Tag: Indigenous Culture

Opening Blessing at the 35th Mayors’ Dinner

Donna Dubie June 1, 2024

I am honoured for the introduction tonight, as not very long ago it was not a thing to do, to stand up and introduce yourself as a proud Mohawk woman, Haudenosaunee, from the Territory of Six Nations, Turtle Clan….  We have come a long way. As Indigenous people we were given the responsibility and the looking after of Turtle Island and the caregiving of Mother Earth, which is a huge responsibility.  I want you to know, we can’t do this alone.

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Aboriginal Worldview – A Conversation with Professor Mac Saulis

Mac Saulis September 1, 2011

Professor Malcolm Saulis, is the co-ordinator of the Wilfred Laurier University Faculty of Social Work – Aboriginal Field of Study program and a First Nations scholar. He has a wise sense for the substantial difference between the Aboriginal and European world view. The following is an edited conversation in which Mac describes these differences by explaining the deep Aboriginal connection to Creation.

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Remembering Our Underlying Aboriginal Heritage

Joe Mancini September 1, 2011

Canadians hardly give a second thought to the Aboriginal culture that developed on their soil. 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, small bands of nomadic hunters moved into the Great Lakes region evolving a culture attuned to the land. How well do we understand this culture that grew on our soil?

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Cultural Holistic Helping

Marilyn Sutherland June 1, 2008

You would think that working on your Masters Degree in Social Work would be daunting. Yes? How about helping out at any one of the numerous soup kitchens we have across this country. My experience at the St. John’s Community Kitchen (SJK) was far from this. I was actually overwhelmed by what I saw, felt and heard. But truthfully, that word “community” is what makes it happen. The experience I have helping at any kitchen is very minimal, a short stint in one northern town. What I brought with me is natural, simple, and ordinary.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.

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