VANCOUVER ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY POLICING CENTRE SOCIETY: federal grants and contributions

VACPC will provide training in cultural land-based tools designed to aid survivors of direct and complex inter-generational trauma, specifically the families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGTBQI+ people. The VACPC staff is adeptly trained to support this efficacious healing method rooted in traditional Indigenous practices. Community members will acquire valuable insights, experiences, and skills, enabling a nuanced understanding of diverse trauma types and levels, along with their pervasive effects. Participants will be equipped to recognize and respond innovatively to

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Vancouver Centre

VACPC will provide training in cultural land-based tools designed to aid survivors of direct and complex inter-generational trauma, including the families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. They will learn to recognize and respond in innovative ways to reduce negative effects and gain tools to help them heal themselves and their families and respond more effectively to the situations that trigger them. Resources and materials will be provided to support the training and cultural activities. Wellness plans and activities will also built into the project staffing plan to ensure

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Vancouver Centre

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre Society (VACPC) will achieve this by facilitating an alliance of Indigenous, immigrant and refugee women who experience similar barriers and marginalization and incorporating insights from their respective lived experiences for the expansion of online trauma-informed decolonization training modules. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by encouraging mor

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

The organization will offer the NA'TSA'MAT program to youth and adult family members of missing or murdered Aboriginal women. The program focuses on individual and family healing and counselling through culturally-based holistic programming, and effectively blends traditional and modern healing concepts. The organization will provide workshops on violence prevention, personal safety and life-skills with the goals of reducing over-victimization and representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system. These workshops will offer participants new insights and strategies to stay safe

• Department of Justice Canada
• Business and Regional Growth Program (CED-Business)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• CIRNAC - Governance and Institutions of Government

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• CIRNAC - Governance and Institutions of Government

• Victims Fund
• Business and Regional Growth Program (CED-Business)

All grants from Department of Justice Canada

• Women's Program

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• CIRNAC - Governance and Institutions of Government

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

• Victims Fund
• CIRNAC - Governance and Institutions of Government

• Women's Program

• Victims Fund
• CIRNAC - Governance and Institutions of Government

• Business and Regional Growth Program (CED-Business)