Videos and transcripts voices of the Ontario Family Well-Being program PART 4 Knowledge Sharing toolKit Ontario Family Well-Being program The Ontario Family Well-Being program’s long-term objectives are to end violence against Indigenous women, reduce the number of Indigenous children and youth in child welfare and the youth justice systems, and improve the overall health and well-being of Indigenous communities. Knowledge Sharing Toolkit Ontario Family Well-Being program PA RT 4 Videos and Transcripts 4A. Overview Video: “Voices of the Family Well-Being program” This video provides an overview of some of the key themes raised during the evaluation process. The video has been posted on Youtube. We invite you to share it through email or on social media. Click on the image at right to view on Youtube > 4B. Thematic Video Interviews ideas and stories concerning the Family Well-Being program, including the co-development process. These short videos feature Family Well-Being Click on a titled image to view a video, or visit the workers and others who have contributed to the Youtube Playlist by clicking the following link: program in their communities. They offer insight, Family Well-Being program Video Playlist. Click on a titled image to view the video on YouTube. Allen Doxdator, Bkejwanong-Walpole Phillip Comeau, Tungasuvvingat Inuit, Judy Soney, Bkejwanong-Walpole Island First Nation, Independent First Ottawa Island First Nation, Independent First Nations Nations Joe Martin, Six Nations of the Grand Daphne Armstrong, Kenora Chiefs Lisa Meloche, Naotkamegwanning- River Advisory, Grand Council Treaty # 3 Whitefish Bay First Nation, Grand Council Treaty #3 VideoS: Voices of the Ontario family Well-being program 37 Knowledge Sharing Toolkit Ontario Family Well-Being program 37 Levina Winter, Deer Lake First Nation, Darlene Beardy, Bearskin Lake First Rod Fiddler, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Nishnawbe Aski Nation Nation, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Howard Copenace, Naotkamegwanning- Reepa Eviction-Carleton, Janice Bonnie Couchie, Biigtigong Whitefish Bay First Nation, Grand Messam and Karen Baker-Anderson, Nishnaabeg, Anishinabek Nation Council Treaty #3 Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre Kerri Shipman, Bkejwanong-Walpole Susan Smith, Bkejwanong-Walpole Stephanie McInnis, Chippewas of Rama Island First Nation, Independent First Island First Nation, Independent First First Nation, Mnjikaning, Anishinabek Nations Nations Nation Jason Williamson, Wauzhusk Onigum Reepa Evic-Carleton and James Harmony Blackbird, Bkejwanong- First Nation-Rat Portage, Grand Mutyaba, Ottawa Inuit Children’s Walpole Island First Nation, Council Treaty #3 Centre Independent First Nations Cynthia Williams and Allen Doxdator, Laureen Linklater-Pizzale, Bkejwanong-Walpole Island First Anishinabek Nation Nation, Independent First Nations 38 VideoS: Voices of the Ontario family Well-being program Knowledge Sharing Toolkit Ontario Family Well-Being program 4C. Video Transcripts This is a collection of video transcripts of all the videos created for this Toolkit (see pages 39 to 64). In addition to transcripts of all the videos produced for this Toolkit, this collection includes transcripts of two audio interviews featuring Jason Jamieson, Manager of Program Development at Métis Nation of Ontario (pages 43 and 44), and Rhonda Fisher, Family Well-Being program Worker with the Ochiichagwe’Babigo’Ining Ojibway Nation, Grand Council Treaty #3 (page 45). VideoS: Voices of the Ontario family Well-being program 39 Knowledge Sharing Toolkit Ontario Family Well-Being program Overview Video: “Voices of the Family Well-Being program Introductory Text - The Ontario Family Well-Being With the Family Well-Being program, the communities program is a collaboration between the Ontario have had the opportunity to design what they’re doing Government’s Ministry of Children, Community and and how they’re supporting their families in a way that Social Services and fourteen First Nations, Inuit, Métis, makes sense to them, as opposed to trying to fit within and urban Indigenous partners across Ontario. a prescriptive box of what a service model looks like or service delivery looks like. Through an innovative process of co-development, the Indigenous partners are implementing a variety of Bonnie Couchie (Family Well-Being program Coordinator, community-based and culturally responsive programs Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, Anishinabek Nation) - What I love and services for their communities. about this program is the flexibility that we had at the very beginning to design a program that would address The Ontario Family Well-Being program’s long-term our community’s needs, right from the individual, to objectives are to end violence against Indigenous families, and then looking at the community as a whole. women, reduce the number of Indigenous children and youth in child welfare and the youth justice systems, and Laureen Linklater-Pizzale (Family Well-Being program improve the overall health and well-being of Indigenous Coordinator, Anishinabek Nation) - People are gravitating communities. towards the program because it facilitates environments where it’s safe and inviting. We’ve seen such great Daphne Armstrong (Acting Manager, Mental Health and positive outcomes in such a short period of time. Addictions/Health, Kenora Chiefs Advisory, Grand Council Qualitative data such as, “I’m able to communicate Treaty #3 - One of the things that the communities have with my children again.” or, “I’m able to connect with been faced with historically in program design and my community,” “I understand where I come from, my new initiatives—it’s always been a kind of cookie cutter identity is here.” approach. VideoS: Voices of the Ontario family Well-being program 40 Knowledge Sharing Toolkit Ontario Family Well-Being program Phillip Comeau (Family Well-Being program Worker We are now connecting our youth and our seniors. We’re Tungasuvvingat Inuit, Ottawa) - There’s a lot of clients going back to old ceremonies that we used to do, and that I’m currently supporting right now, they have coming together as a community. professional service providers—they’ll have a doctor, a counsellor, a therapist—but they’ll also be working with Cynthia Williams (Director, Three Fires Ezhignowenmidwaa me, and we’ll look more into culture. Women’s Shelter) Bkejwanong-Walpole Island First Nation, Independent First Nations) - We did a walk last November That’s really big within Tungasuvvingat Inuit and the to bring awareness to domestic abuse. We had over a Family Well-Being program because we’re Inuit helping hundred people, which was wonderful, and we walked a Inuit. We have lots of country country food at our couple of kilometres. events. Sometimes we’ll have a full seal come in and Tungasuvvingat Inuit will let the community know. To have that many people participate on a November That’s something that brings the community together. day, and it was actually the men who carried the banner. Sometimes we’ll have a full seal come in and If you going to reduce family violence you have to Tungasuvvingat Inuit will let the community know. involve everybody. And that’s one of the things that the That’s something that brings the community together Family Well-Being program has been able to do—they can work with all of the different agencies and pull Jason Jamieson (Manager of Program Development, Métis everybody together. Nation of Ontario) - One outcome that Family Well- Being program has really allowed us to capitalize on is Laureen Linklater-Pizzale - I really think that in order province-wide making our hubs more vibrant and more for our families to be well they have to be connected. welcoming. And if you’re connected to the culture, you’re connected to the land, the language is very important, you’ll see That’s creating a better cultural place that’s safer and improvement in the community’s well-being. more welcoming, and just a better spot for anybody within the full spectrum of health, healing and wellness Rod Fiddler (Family Well-Being program, Project Officer to be. Nishnawbe Aski Nation) - It’s all about bringing families together, developing those bonds between parents, their Bonnie Couchie (Family Well-Being program Coordinator, children, their grandparents, all the aunts and uncles. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Anishinabek Nation) - Our community is very very focussed on land-based activities Developing healthy relationships—I believe that’s what now. We see the power of the land and its ability to the Family Well-Being program is all about. heal trauma and to address addictions, and even family violence. Judy Soney (Family Well-Being program Worker, Bkejwanong-Walpole Island First Nation, Independent First Nations) - One day I was leaving the building and this elderly lady came to me and put her hand on my and took my hand and held on tight And said, “Thank you, thank you. I need this.” The minimum words were said, but I knew—she had been a residential school survivor. VideoS: Voices of the Ontario family Well-being program 41 Knowledge Sharing Toolkit Ontario Family Well-Being program “Acceptance” An interview with Allen Doxdator, Youth Facilitator, New Directions program Bkejwanong-Walpole Island First Nation, Independent First Nations My name is Allen Doxdator, I’m the Youth Facilitator for To have Judy come in and help me make those the New Directions program. connections, it’s just snowballed from there. With the residential schools, colonization, there a big We’ve got so many other community partners now that disconnect between our youth and our seniors. are coming to us to say, “Okay we’ve seen what you’ve done here, is there something that you can contribute My New Directions program and the Family Well-Being and help with this?” program, we partner together and bridge that gap and let the youth know that it’s okay to go to seniors and It’s a traditional thing that youth of the communities— have a conversation, have a healthy relationship with like from say seven and up—would be out in the them, learn from them.