Earlier this week, we announced a brand new VAHS team: the Urban Indigenous Safety Collective 🦋🪶🌿
Starting this Monday (March 13), we will be available to support healing & safety for Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQ+ kin in our community. Keep reading to learn more!
After one year of operating our heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine compassion club, we have analyzed our data and presented preliminary findings here.
“We have a lot of families that were interested in dancing and making regalia but the cost of living is just so expensive that it’s not in their price range ... We really wanted to give people low-barrier access to their culture.” @vanaboriginal https://t.co/XIfiogClEc
In honor of National Indigenous History Month, here’s few events going on over the next couple weeks.
@vanaboriginal is holding a powwow on Fathers’ Day weekend (June 16-18): https://t.co/Tf0fujNwnd
Have you heard? We're basically throwing the Coachella of Pow Wows this weekend ☀️💃🎉
Join us on the Britannia soccer field for the first annual Honouring our Fathers, Grandfathers, and Sons Pow Wow! More details below:
VAHS echoes the calls of our community partners, the Federal Housing Advocate, and unhoused neighbours for a moratorium on the Hastings Tent City displacement. Read more here:
A new mobile health team of doctors, nurses & social workers will deliver culturally-appropriate care to Indigenous Women in Vancouver.
People “still vulnerable to violence and racism,” as @vanaboriginal's Rosemary Stager-Wallace said. #bcpoli#cdnpoli
https://t.co/U97RRNZgpJ
We are honoured to welcome Haida weaver Shyla Cross to VAHS for a cedar bracelet workshop on Friday, March 31!
Drop by any time between 10:00–3:00 to weave two styles of bracelets for yourself or a loved one 🦅🌲🌿🍂
We're hiring a Community Health Nurse (Registered Nurse) to join our Women's Mobile Primary Care Clinic, launching this spring 👩⚕️🌼💜
Visit https://t.co/UCNfW3h2ZR to learn more about this exciting new role!
We will have more to share next week on UISC's team members, values, services, and upcoming events/projects. In the meantime, please be in touch with us (contact info in the first tweet) with any questions or to make an appointment.
We look forward to connecting with you! (4/4)
Earlier this week, we announced a brand new VAHS team: the Urban Indigenous Safety Collective 🦋🪶🌿
Starting this Monday (March 13), we will be available to support healing & safety for Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQ+ kin in our community. Keep reading to learn more!
UISC will offer culturally grounded "system navigation" supports — based on each person's self-determined needs and goals — to remove barriers to safety & healing caused by gender-based violence, poverty, discrimination, colonialism, and other systemic harms. (3/4)
We are seeking a Senior Manager to guide our Indigenous Early Years team and programs!
If you are a collaborative, creative team leader with a drive to nurture strong Indigenous families, visit our job posting and apply: https://t.co/xwqcEJawJK
“Naloxone expansion is not associated with increases in adolescent heroin use and injection drug use: Evidence from 44 US states” by Emilie Bruzelieus et al (2023)…expanded access to naloxone needs to be for anyone and everyone!
Link: https://t.co/Y3GDdumQBV
The so-called "lax approach" discussed here is not due to lack of shame/stigma (there's a lot of that already) & not because of decrim efforts (which do not go far enough).
It's actually a lack of political will by all levels of gov't to end poverty & the toxic drug crisis.
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth from all of us at VAHS!
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As Indigenous people, our sovereignty is tied to Black liberation on Turtle Island and throughout the world. We understand the deep connections between colonialism, white supremacy, and anti-Black violence. (🧵 1/5)
We also recognize and uplift our Afro-Indigenous/Black Indigenous kin, who are integral to our Nations and whose lives and experiences matter. We know that we must do more to unlearn colourism and anti-Blackness within and outside of Indigenous communities. (4/5)