
Reconciliation through language vitalization: Supporting the Victoria Native Friendship Centre’s Elders Program
The goal of the Victoria Native Friendship Centre’s (VNFC) Language Revitalization & Elders Program is to provide support to those most vulnerable in the community. Elders have survived residential school, lifelong poverty, cultural displacement and ongoing racist attitudes.

Health, Culture and Resilience Initiative of Métis Nation of Powell River
The Health, Culture and Resilience Initiative reconnects community members in the qathet Regional District (Texada Island, Lasqueti Island and Savary Island) in British Columbia with their lost culture and traditions. Through a series of cultural workshops, gatherings and food sustainability initiatives, the program promotes healing, education and Reconciliation.

Snuneymuxw First Nation Collaboration and Reconciliation with Roots to Thrive Program
The Snuneymuxw First Nation Collaboration and Reconciliation with Roots to Thrive Program addresses the unresolved trauma and chronic mental health conditions resulting from colonization, racism, residential schools, and generational trauma.

Supporting Indigenous Elders by Revitalizing Indigenous Knowledge
Funding from the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund will support the hiring of a Program Coordinator to set up a program that supports older Indigenous adults who have directly experienced the impacts of colonialism and residential schools and are at increased risk of homelessness, abuse and isolation.

Bringing Squamish language and cultural practices into Mass
The St. Paul's Language and Culture Project is a joint initiative between parishioners of the Squamish Nation and St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Vancouver, BC. Fostering healing and reconciliation is at the heart and spirit of this project, which looks to incorporate the Squamish language and cultural practices into Masses and Sacramental Rites




