Creating Communities of Care
In an effort to address the barriers and gaps in care experienced by African Nova Scotian and Urban Indigenous women in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), four organizations banded together to provide culturally-specific programming to address the issue of gender-based violence as it appears in these two communities.
Inspired by Indigenous customary law and Afrocentricity, these programs aim to address the failures of our inherited colonial systems by connecting women with other members of their community in spaces where their culture is integrated into the care they receive. Although this project has seen huge successes so far, but there is still much to learn, and much more work to do.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2023
Conclusion
In the final episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we review what we’ve heard over the past five episodes. If there’s one thing that we’ve learned in this process, it’s that culturally…
Culturally-Specific Programming
In the fifth episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we finally dive deep into culturally-specific programming: what it is, what it means for program participants, and the promise it hol…
How the System Turns Victims into Criminals
In the fourth episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we take a step away from the busy streets of Halifax to investigate the Justice System and the troubling overrepresentation of Black…
The Urban Indigenous Community
In the third episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we learn more about the Urban Indigenous experience, how being separated from community can impact an individual, and one program in …
The African Nova Scotian Community
In the second episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we focus on the African Nova Scotian community, the challenges and barriers that they face when interacting with service providers, …
Where We Started
When the system fails us, we can build better.
In our first episode, we go back to 2018, exploring the overlapping contexts and systems that contribute to the victimization of African Nova Scotian an…