M' Wikwedong Indigenous Children’s Wellness Program

M' Wikwedong Indigenous Children’s Wellness Program The ICWP offer's advocacy, peer mentoring, and referral outreach to families living off-reserve for

Program Activities

One-to-One peer mentoring will provide a safe place for the children by attending to their needs, with the additional resources/supports of advocacy* and referrals. The children will gain an understanding of what family violence is and how it affects them. One-to-One Family Centered sessions will provide parents/caregivers an opportunity to learn about the impact of family violence from their children’s perspective and the children will be able to communicate what they are thinking and feeling. Age-Appropriate, Culture Based Group Sessions will be offered in four to twelve week blocks, to create an environment of kinship and to foster a sense of pride in each child. The children will be encouraged to support one another in these sessions and will advance together toward healthier lifestyles and choices. Family Group Workshops will provide the family members who have been exposed to/or experienced family violence a chance to attend a facilitated family group workshop. They will work towards regaining trust and rebuilding their relationships. Additional resources/supports will be offered, as appropriate to the parents/caregivers and children. Community Capacity Building will entail establishing connections and linkages between families, organizations, and communities in ongoing work to promote and sustain the wellbeing of Indigenous children and families. Activities could include program promotion and training/workshops, partnership, relationship establishment and retention.

*Advocacy could involve the Friendship Centre worker attending meetings as the Indigenous representative on behalf of the child/caregiver as requested. Ensuring the voice of the child/caregiver is heard and respected. The Representative will attend meetings with other groups such as local CAS, local school(s), housing corporations and case conferencing to ensure the needs of the child/caregiver are being addressed in a culturally appropriate manner.

01/18/2022

Come join me and Cap-C for a 10 minute yoga/ meditation session! Robyn McKenzie

01/18/2022

Introduction to yoga and meditation :) In Partnership with Cap-C
Robyn McKenzie

All welcomed :) This event will is hosted by the M'wikwedong Friendship Center. Covid protocols will be put in place.Tha...
09/20/2021

All welcomed :) This event will is hosted by the M'wikwedong Friendship Center. Covid protocols will be put in place.

Thank you Rachel and Wendy for making the posters!

Please sign up for this amazing workshop Hosted by (Rachel) from the ISHP housing program. This workshop was created to ...
09/09/2021

Please sign up for this amazing workshop Hosted by (Rachel) from the ISHP housing program. This workshop was created to teach government aged youth (12-29 yrs) the right's and responsibilities of getting a place. It also helps you to resource services you can access to aid you with housing and so much more! to register please email Rachel Paterson. I know I did!
ishp@mwikwedong.com

Here is the trailer for the movie night! Please feel free to contact me for a spot..... 10 seats left!email: icwp@ mwikw...
08/06/2021

Here is the trailer for the movie night! Please feel free to contact me for a spot..... 10 seats left!

email: icwp@ mwikwedong.com or text 519 379 3792

'The Bruce' is a 3-part documentary series exploring the history of Bruce County and the Saugeen/Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. The series was created a...

06/10/2021

Aanii,

Maazi-Aanikwedokwe ndishnikaaz, mayeengun ndodem, Neyaashiinigmiing ndonjiba.

Greetings, my name is Kyanna, my clan is of the wolf, and I come from Neyaashiinigmiing. It is with great pleasure that I formally introduce myself as the Indigenous Children's Wellness Coordinator at M'Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Center in Owen Sound. Recently, I have graduated at Georgian College for the educational assistance apprenticeship program. I am feeling very excited and eager to fulfill this role, and to work with this lovely community.

The objective of this program is to help families understand what trauma is and how it affects children throughout development. Together as a community, with the engagement of this program; what I would like to do is provide children and their families the tools/strategies, and resources to help build life long skills. Skills that will be strengthened are building resiliency, community engagement, healthy nutrition and lifestyle techniques, confidence builder's, and to strengthen the ability to foster good relationships, as well as setting healthy boundaries. With these goals that will be actively working towards, I believe we can achieve a happy, full-filled, pro-social lifestyle as a team!

To achieve these goals, I will be offering interactive and engaging activities, once we can safely do so according to the COVID-19 protocol. Activities include:

-Arts and Crafts
-Story telling
-Land-based outdoor events
-Traditional medicine teachings
- and so many more. The sky is the limit!

If you are interested or are looking for more information please feel free to contact me.

Please join me. The door is always open!
Kyanna. Keeshig

email: icwp@mwikwedong.com
phone: 519 379 3792

Address

1045 3rd Avenue West
Owen Sound, ON
N4K5W6

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

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