Description:
The ISR will ensure that the intergenerational traumas caused by Indian Residential Schools are addressed through strengths-based approaches to achieve and maintain a good mind while promoting healthy lifestyles, improving individual and family emotional well-being, and providing access to cultural knowledge and activities that foster self-respect and identity.
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge and awareness of Indigenous culture, of both historical and contemporary Indigenous issues. Emphasis being on the impacts of trauma, family violence, engagement with Indigenous men and community outreach;
- Two (2) year post-secondary education in Indigenous Studies, Social Service work, Mental Health and Addictions, or a combination of equivalent and relevant education;
- 3-years minimum of demonstrated and related work experience with health and social services and Indigenous cultural approaches to mental health and addictions issues;
- Demonstrated ability to bring awareness to and educate survivors and their descendants of the history and impacts of the Residential School system;
- Capacity to offer land-based activities, opportunities for transmission of cultural knowledge, and connections to Elders and traditional knowledge keepers to support cultural healing and positive self-identity;
- Proven ability to organize, evaluate, communicate and present information, both verbally and written;
- Ability to promote the development of protocols and referral agreements with urban Indigenous organizations, mainstream health and social service agencies, Indigenous traditional health practitioners, and other relevant community partners and stakeholders as it pertains to the needs of the urban Indigenous community;
- Experience in MS Office applications;
- First Aid or CPR certification;
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention certification;
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain lasting working relationships;