In an effort to address the barriers and gaps in care experienced by African Nova Scotian and Urban Indigenous women in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), four organizations banded together to provide culturally-specific programming to address the issue of gender-based violence as it appears in these two communities. Inspired by Indigenous customary law and Afrocentricity, these programs aim to address the failures of our inherited colonial systems by connecting women with other members of th ...
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In the final episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we review what we’ve heard over the past five episodes. If there’s one thing that we’ve learned in this process, it’s that culturally-specific and community-based approaches to addressing gender-based violence show promising results that speak to a larger need for these types of prog…
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Culturally-Specific Programming
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In the fifth episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we finally dive deep into culturally-specific programming: what it is, what it means for program participants, and the promise it holds for a better, more inclusive future. Each of the four partner organizations implement their own take on culturally-specific programming, borrowing f…
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How the System Turns Victims into Criminals
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In the fourth episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we take a step away from the busy streets of Halifax to investigate the Justice System and the troubling overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous women in provincial and federal prison admissions. The Elizabeth Fry Society advocates for women involved in the Justice System. This a…
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The Urban Indigenous Community
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In the third episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we learn more about the Urban Indigenous experience, how being separated from community can impact an individual, and one program in particular that is reuniting Indigenous women with their culture. The Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre has been a fixture in Kjipuktuk (also called Hal…
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The African Nova Scotian Community
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In the second episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we focus on the African Nova Scotian community, the challenges and barriers that they face when interacting with service providers, and what one organization in particular is doing to make things better. The Association of Black Social Workers is one of the four Creating Communities…
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When the system fails us, we can build better. In our first episode, we go back to 2018, exploring the overlapping contexts and systems that contribute to the victimization of African Nova Scotian and Urban Indigenous women in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma,ki - also known as Halifax, Nova Scotia. We hear from the four organizations that would come to form the …
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