Truth & Reconciliation Training
Mon, Mar 28
|Online Event
The first part of this training explores our collective history and the current day implications that affect Indigenous youth and their families; and our life together as a Whole. Without truth there cannot be understanding, and without understanding we can not begin to work towards reconciliation.
Time & Location
Mar 28, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – Mar 29, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Online Event
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About the event
Truth & Reconciliation. You may be becoming aware of what these words mean now. Last year, many Canadians finally awakened to the horrors of the Residential School system when 215 children were uncovered in graveyards at a Kamloops residential school; and Canada officially designated Sept 30th as a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
I am a Truth and Reconciliation Specialist. What brought me here was having grown up in an Indigenous community and having seen first hand the struggles for Indigenous families, and having then spent many years working in Child Welfare, Children’s Mental Health and for the Advocacy Office in Toronto.
However, it wasn’t until my Masters of Social Work years, when I wanted to study the residential school system more intensely, and I had more access to information kept hidden from our “Canadian history books”, that I an Indigenous woman, fully understood the Truth. And the uncovering…
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T&R Training
$100.00
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