CBRCanada Webinar: Moving the Dial On: Building Indigenous Community Relationships
Webinar & Live (March 30, 2023) Discussion presented by Dr. Cynthia Puddu, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health and Community Studies, MacEwan University; and Cheyenne Greyeyes, Student and Research Assistant, MacEwan University, and former Youth Worker, Niginan Housing Ventures
Omamoo Wango Gamik opened in fall 2020, a multi-generational supportive home operated by Niginan Housing Ventures. It is a 42-unit, affordable home in Edmonton, Alberta that aims to keep Indigenous childen out of care. Watch the webinar and discussion to learn more about the success of Omamoo Wango Gamik and how the housing model is helping to keep families together and limiting families’ and youths exposure to experience with Child and Family Services.
Community Based Research Canada | Premiered on 5 Apr 2023
“In 2020, Niginan Housing Ventures (NHV), a registered non-profit charity formed to address housing needs and requirements of Indigenous people living in Edmonton, started a housing initiative named Omamoo Wango Gamik. This is a pilot program where youth formerly in foster care are housed in a multi-generational housing facility that provides wraparound supports along with access to Elders and other cultural supports. The pilot created a community-based research opportunity to follow the experiences of youth entering an Indigenous-led housing initiative. Residents from this housing pilot were invited to participate in a research project funded by the Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab. What started as a research project with the intent to understand how an Indigenous-led program can help prevent Indigenous youth houselessness has grown into a more significant collaboration between researchers and community partners. This presentation will describe how using Indigenous Ways of Knowing has fostered a reciprocal relationship between the researchers and community partners and how this collaboration has led to changing the research to best suit the needs of the community partner.”
- Quoted text from video description on YouTube
Links to content on this page
omamo wango gamik page: https://www.niginan.ca/omamoo-wango-gamik
Community Research Canada webinars & discussion page: https://www.communityresearchcanada.ca/webinars-and-discussions
Webinar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEOR4J379Mo&t=4s
Slideshow: https://www.communityresearchcanada.ca/_files/ugd/97b5d1_0e6df54ec33442259bbacab74efc0ae8.pdf