Clan Mothers Healing Village is focused on providing mid-term and long-term care to women, girls, two-spirit relatives who have been victims of sexual abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking.
In addition to on-site care, Clan Mothers will provide a wide variety of in-community and mobile work and career training. Through innovative social enterprise opportunities participants will gain education, transferable skills, and a strengthened sense of identity to support long-term success, while also generating financial reinvestment in the Healing Village.
Programs will include:
- Elder Teaching videos
- Street Reach and Clan Mothers art
- Carpentry training – Development of career preparation and readiness
- Construction – Creation of an all-women construction company that work on the building of the Healing Village
- Music Therapy – soundtracks created to support healing
- Demand-side Management (Iquewe Project) –
- Advisors – Developing a national advisory committee to address issues related to sexual exploitation and violence
- Northern Sexual Abuse program (Piyessis) – link and sentence
- Indigenous youth art exhibition (Layers)
- Victims of crime programming
- Industry specific training – Training programs/modules required for workers in certain identified industries
