Our First Nations Community Capacity training will teach your staff how to expand their skill set while staying true to their Indigenous roots. These courses will teach new generations about Indigenous ways of being, while teaching older generations skills to be successful in the modern world.
The following courses are available:
- Governance (3 parts)
- Conducting a Comprehensive Community Capacity Assessment (2 parts)
- Project Management (2 parts)
- Indigenous Engagement Strategies
- Wise Practices: Innovation and Leadership
- Decolonization and Indigenization (2 parts)
- Circles of Care: Establishing Safe Relational Spaces
- Determinants of Indigenous Health
- Community Collaborative Approaches to Care with Indigenous Communities
- Incorporating the 7 Sacred Teachings into Practice
- Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Suicide Prevention (2 parts)
- From Lateral Violence to Lateral Kindness (2 parts)
- Indigenous Centered Social Work
- Indigenous Women and Intimate Partner Violence (3 parts)
- Developing a Needs Assessment Tool
- An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families and the Path to Self-Governance
| Module Title | Brief Description | Deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| Governance Three sessions (9 hours total) | Governance: A Guide to Nation Building for First Nations Chief and Council Members | Session 1: • Explore core functions of Indigenous governance, best practices in Indigenous governance, and key legislative and constitutional frameworks affecting band operations • Discuss important leadership concepts and roles and responsibilities for members of Chief and Council Session 2: • Discuss decision-making structures and dispute resolution processes and define your member’s rights and responsibilities. • Assist you in Developing decision-making processes that are clear and sustainable, and ensure elected officials have the knowledge they need to conduct the Nation’s business competently and fairly. Session 3: • Discuss how to enact policies and procedures that help the Nation practice good fiscal responsibility and set in place financial systems that enable the reliable funding of community programs and services. • Discuss how to develop engagement processes with the Nation’s membership to create a vision and plan for the future of the community |
| Conducting a comprehensive community capacity assessment | Determining your community’s ability to grow and make changes consistent with identified needs to serve children, youth, and families. | Session 1: • How to conduct a high-level overview of key service, financial, human resources and IT capacity. This course trains on how to do a community capacity assessment and what to look for when seeking an outside consultant to assist you Session 2: • How to implement recommendations emerging from the community capacity assessment and create an operational and accountability plan for staff to implement |
| Project Management | Introductory course on project management and how it can improve the success of operations. | Session 1: • What is Project Management and why is it so important? • The link between identifying and implementing your priorities for serving children youth and families. • Understanding the difference between project management and operational management • Project Management fundamentals, processes, techniques, and tools • Establishing an Indigenous Wise-Practices approach to Project Management Session 2: • Project Management planning techniques through a practical business case exercise • Implementing Project Management in your community: Where to start? |
| Indigenous Engagement Strategies | Developing purposeful, authentic, participatory and strengths-based approaches to community engagement. | • Community Engagement is the process by which community members are engaged to work and learn together on behalf of their communities to create and realize bold visions for the future • Community learners will understand engagement techniques that lead to generating ideas and solutions, to complex issues facing communities; and how community engagement can increase community cohesion allowing the community to have ownership over the outcomes that will ultimately impact them. Tools and techniques will include: • Developing an engagement plan • Developing engagement tools including engagement questions, focus group processes, confidentiality waivers • Summarizing and analyzing engagement findings • Sharing engagement findings with different groups |
| Wise Practices: Innovation and Leadership | Decision makers and system influencers developing lasting change in communities | • Learning innovative approaches, new practices, and leadership techniques designed to enhance your standing as a leader/future leader by earning the support of those around you |
| Decolonization and Indigenization | Reclaiming and restoring culture, language, and relationships within your organizations. Contributing to systemic change through gaining an understanding the concepts of Indigenization and decolonization. | Session 1: • Learners will understand the interrelatedness between Reconciliation, Indigenization and Decolonization, and the impacts of colonization, recognition of settler privilege and the inherent challenges of the dominance of Western views and approaches Session 2: • A case study will be presented and discussed |
| Circles of Care: Establishing safe relational spaces | The Circle as a restorative practice tool in developing relationships and partnerships towards the development of helping strategies. | • Learners will understand the use and application of Circles in clinical work as a restorative approach.; and understand how this approach can benefit the development of collaborative relationships between helpers, families and other services to ensure well-being for children, youth and families |
| SMART Goals | What are smart goals and how they can be effective in your case planning, leading to better outcomes for your service users. | • SMART goal setting is good case planning and lends itself to good accountability and outcomes |
| Determinants of Indigenous Health | Understanding the structural determinants of Indigenous health | • Learners will understand the contemporary intricacies and interconnectedness between the proximal, intermediate and distal determinants of Indigenous health as a first step in how these determinants influence the socio-economic trajectories for children and youth that often predict their health status during adulthood |
| Community collaborative approaches to care with Indigenous communities | A principled based approach to collaboration in service delivery | • Learn strategies to support community collaboration through a holistic, strength-based, and community-led process with the principles of cultural competence and respect for Indigenous knowledge at its core |
| Incorporating the 7 Sacred teachings into practice | Using Indigenous knowledge to enhance your worldview | • Learn the 7 Sacred teachings, understanding what they mean and how to incorporate into case planning approaches with children youth and families • Using this knowledge to bring new practices to your work |
| Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Suicide Prevention | Cultural and Community based approaches to suicide prevention in communities | Session 1: • This course is offered in two concurrent sessions • This course will review how centering Indigenous knowledge and approaches within suicide prevention positively contribute to suicide-related outcomes • Initiatives built upon comprehensive community engagement processes and which incorporate Indigenous culture, knowledge, and decolonizing methods have been shown to have substantial impact on suicide-related outcomes at the individual- and community-level • Indigenous approaches to suicide prevention are diverse, drawing on local culture, knowledge, need and priorities Session 2: • This course will assist learners to identify a pathway in their communities to critically evaluate and develop a framework for suicide prevention programming |
| From Lateral Violence to Lateral Kindness | Understanding the root causes of Lateral Violence and the shift to Lateral Kindness in the workplace | Session 1: • Learners will develop an understanding of the causes of lateral violence, the personal and organizational costs and strategies to move towards a model of kindness in individual group and organizational relationships Session 2: • This session will assist learners to identify an operational plan moving forward |
| Indigenous Centered Social Work | An Indigenous case planning approach to helping children youth and families | • This course uses Indigenous knowledge, perspectives and practices and shows practitioners how to integrate cultural knowledge in the helping relationship with children youth and families in their case planning |
| Indigenous women and Intimate Partner Violence | Understanding the root causes of Intimate Partner Violence and the effects on the family. Developing an Integrated Case Management Approach when dealing with Family Violence Engaging the community in Breaking the Cycle of Family Violence. | Session 1: • This session describes the historical perspective /underpinnings of the roots of violence towards Indigenous women and girls. Understand the impact of family violence on children • Understand the cycle and patterns of abuse and identify how service providers can be involved in intervening with supportive services that meet the needs of women and their children in ways that contribute to their overall health and well-being emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually Session 2: • Case Planning approaches with families experiencing Intimate Partner Violence • Using the “She is Wise Framework” approach that views women as the experts in their lives and is grounded within an approach that creates space for Indigenous women to reclaim a safe and healthy life and restore sense of self and on-going safety and well-being for the family Session 3: • Family Violence: Identifying steps communities can engage in to be a safe place for women and girls • Drawing best practice, this course outlines a step-by-step approach communities can adapt to their own needs to create engage in a process to work towards creating a vision for a violence free community |
| Developing a Needs Assessment Tool | Developing a needs assessment tool to identify and prioritize community needs such as prevention and treatment programs. | • Covers the fundamentals of designing a tool for identifying needs in your community, a tool will be drafted that can then be adapted for use in your community. • Strategies for implementing the tool to gather the most information will be discussed. |
| An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children youth and families and the path to self-governance | How can First Nation Communities move towards self-governance in child welfare. | • Provides an overview of the legislation and how to secure funding for communities wanting to develop their own family law • A framework for the steps to self-governance will be offered |
| Program Review/Evaluation | How to design and implement meaningful and useful program reviews using an Indigenous Lens, while honouring the principles of Indigenous ownership, control, access, and possession of First Nations data and information. | Session 1: • Learners will explore the various reasons why an evaluation might be useful, and how to determine what approach will work best for the particular circumstances • The value that good evaluation can bring to programs and services • Determining the audience for a particular evaluation • Various evaluation methodologies • Co-creation and participatory evaluation • What an evaluation plan is, and how to create one • What an evaluation Framework is and how to develop one • Theories of Change Session 2: • Participants will learn how to design and implement data collection tools and processes as well as analyze and report on data collected • Survey development • The use if talking circles to support evaluation • Interviewing techniques • Story telling • The difference between qualitative and quantitative data • Confidentiality • Data analysis techniques • Sharing the new knowledge in a way that is easily understood and meaningful Session 3: • A draft Theory of Change • A draft Evaluation Plan • A draft Evaluation Framework |
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