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It was such an honour to interview Paul Francis Jr and Sage Laliberte to learn more about the important work that they and the entire N’doo’owe Binesi team (the Indigenous Health division at St. Joseph's Care Group in Thunder Bay) are doing. This team and organization is really demonstrating how health and long-term care organizations can take concrete steps in advancing Truth and Reconciliation, by dedicating resources, engaging with Indigenous Peoples and communities, and being thoughtful and humble throughout the journey. I am inspired by Paul and Sage’s passion, and I am so deeply appreciative of the time they spent with us. Indigenous People have a right to practice their rituals and ceremonies, and as healthcare providers, we have a duty to support those practices. At St Joseph’s, an Indigenous person living in their LTC care homes can engage in a smudging ritual in ANY space in the buildings. Indigenous ceremonies and rituals occur regularly. Indigenous Navigators support the transitions, ceremony and ritual coordination, and work from a trauma-informed lens. A Council of Elders provides guidance and wisdom to the N’doo’owe Binesi. Indigenous People are in the roles guiding and doing the work within their organization - including at the senior leadership table. Check out the article to learn more about their important work. We must question, disrupt and address the systemic racism that exists throughout our systems and establishments to support the health and well-being of the First Peoples of this Land. There is so much more that can and must be done to support cultural safety in long-term care, and healthcare more broadly. I do hope that by sharing the journey of St Joseph’s Care Group, that other organizations will be inspired, and reflect on opportunities to take action. Learn more below ⬇️⬇️

it's a big week! the very first NSW Anti-Slavery Forum starts tomorrow 📢 check out the two-day program below for a snapshot of what's to come! *stay tuned* for my reflections over the next two days & pls feel free to engage by sharing any of your thoughts, comments, questions or concerns. #AntiSlaveryForum #modernslavery #bizhumanrights #susty #esg

🏡 It's time we build more inclusive housing policies! 🌟 Explore the Insights from Felix Lynn, Development Manager at L&Q and Chair of the staff network Ability, as he shares his firsthand perspective on the vital importance of raising awareness for Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities in our housing policies. 📖 Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eAp2ZinB

It’s complicated to care for people, navigate neighborhood and city politics, and get things built. Our culture says “the math doesn’t work” when low income commmunities demand equity. Profit for those who already have wealth is the priority in most all housing conversations. The same home built in Leawood, KS and the Lykins Neighborhood of KCMO will cost the same to construct in either location. But the financial value after it is built is appraised by the “market” in the location it is built. So, since Leawood has a greater “value” than Lykins, the same home is worth less (legacy of “Redlining”). A good comparison is to imagine if you buy a Tesla and drive it through both neighborhoods. We would think someone foolish if they said that by driving a Tesla in a poor community, it is now worth less than when it was in Leawood. But, when the asset cannot move, it’s value is based on the worth that our culture has for the other people living around the asset, not the asset itself. A car is worth the same in both communities. A new home is worth what a mortgage lender values the “neighborhood” that the new home is in. Not the actual value of the asset. When it comes to housing development, Profit is King. Why would you build where the home is worth less? For 50 years, there hasn’t been new home construction (except for the work of Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City ) in the Lykins neighborhood because everyone who looks into it comes to the same conclusion. They (residents of Lykins) are not worth it. Choosing to built with the same level of care that can be demanded in Leawood, but placing that in Lykins, is a choice to deny “Profit as King” and instead say “our neighbors deserve better”. , Reda Ibrahim and Cesar Cea, PE show that good people will sacrifice for their community. Even when everyone else is too afraid to take the risk. They stopped believing the lie that $ = value. They built an asset in a community and they show us a path for People = Value thinking in new home construction in KCMO.

I'm on a panel at this forum next week, to talk about how we deal with the risk of modern slavery in renewable energy supply chains. As the forum will show, this is not a challenge unique to renewable energy, but our industry needs to be part of a solution to this global problem. Looking forward to the discussion.

💻 Make sure to register and tune in for this informative and timely conversation with a powerhouse of state and local leaders. #humanitarian #humanitarianaid #humanitarianoperations #responseoperations #crisisresponse #NEMA #TeamIEM #migrants #asylumseekers #stateandlocal #stateandlocalleadership

Ricky is only 56 years old. He was born into a world where he did not have full citizenship rights. He and his family were forced to grow up in an Aboriginal reserve outside of the town of Roebourne, in remote Western Australia. Ricky’s parents and kin worked for rations on pastoral stations in the extreme Pilbara heat. For tobacco, clothes, tins o’ meat, boots, flour, sugar. They were not paid wages. As young people, his parents needed written permission from the authorities to be allowed out of the reserve to go into town. This is not ancient history. For context, ten years before Ricky was born, neck chains were still being used on Aboriginal people in Western Australia. Use of neck-chains was a common and systematic practice for horse-mounted police to capture and detain Aboriginal people, including women and children, and remove them from pastoral stations. Their presence threatened the expansion of the cattle industry. At peak periods, hundreds of Aboriginal people were chained for alleged cattle theft. This is the world in which Ricky’s parents grew up and started a family. This is living memory. Like his peers, Ricky and his extended kin were raised in tents and tin shacks at the Reserve. It wasn’t until Ricky was about ten years old that the government shut down the reserve and moved the Aboriginal population into an area knows as The Village. The village too was later condemned and flattened. At the same time, much of the nation was prospering. This is not about blame. It is about truth telling and reconciliation. So this week, as the nation again descends into dialogue about a date, take a moment to remember the Rickys of our nation. His children. Their children. Remember that the discussion about First Nations’ rights is not abstract and academic. The trauma is here. It is not historical. It is not ancient. It is real. We all want a reconciled, healed nation for Ricky’s future generations. And yours. #firstnations #australia #humanrights #unitednations #aboriginalaustralia #pilbara #westernaustralia

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Today is International Recovery Day. 💜 This is a day to celebrate the brave individuals journeying through recovery and a day to come together as a global community to affirm that recovery is possible! #RecoveryDay #InternationalRecoveryDay #RecoveryisPossible #PublicHealth #substanceabusedisordersupport #mentalhealth #peersupport #pscfl

Interesting and important read. How are you working with indigenous communities and Land Back movements in your community? “Land Back as a movement, as a political and legal movement by Tribal nations across Turtle Island, has focused on the return of things that have been taken from us through colonial policies. So our land, our languages, our kinship systems, our governances were forced out of us. These are things that were purposely taken from us through colonial policies and forced assimilation”