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Fort Nelson First Nation MMIWP Healing Campaign, BC

Community served: Fort Nelson First Nation Location: BC
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

FNFN Healing campaign plan has three components: 1.) GBV healing opportunities in the form of workshops – two for men and two for women (14+ yrs of age). Traditional activities will be included whether it is crafting of healing on the land – such as hunting, setting up snare traps, hand games, dry meat making, etc) paired with healing circles and snacks 2.) Spreading awareness of MMIWP through a red ribbon campaign and 3.) Bi-monthly local skills training geared towards intervention and prevention focusing on healthy coping mechanisms, self-help and help seeking, safety planning, respectful relationships, and self-care workshops.

MMIP Program Duck Valley, ID

Community served: Shoshone-Paiute Tribe Location: ID
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Create a MMIWP program on the Duck Water Reservation on ID/NV border which is very remote. Goal is to build a healthy, just, equitable and sustainable Indigenous community through direct communication and outreach via the in-field community organizer method that we use to facilitate our MMIP Program. Goal is to provide education and advocacy for two-spirit people, address housing needs by providing temporary housing and adding safe long-term housing especially for women, girls and two-spirit people, and hosting ribbon skirt, beading and other creative classes for survivors and their families are some of the planned programming.

STOP Violence Program, ID

Community served: Coeur d’Alene Tribal Community Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Hold annual MMIWP Conference to keep awareness of this pandemic. STOP Violence Program continuing the next phase in collaboration with organizations, tribes, law enforcement and promoting the advocacy, prosecution response and collection of data of MMIWP in ID and neighboring reservations. Creating MOU’s with various law enforcement agencies (Tribe, State and Federal). Holding regional meetings to promote development of policies and procedures. Goal to create a formal collaborative working response plan to Idaho MMIWP.

Puyallup Tribe: Community Domestic Violence Advocacy Program, WA

Community served: Puyallup Tribe Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Offer emergency support to families searching for their relatives as well as emotional and peer support to families of MMIWP. Host monthly talking/craft circle for MMIWP families and survivors of violence. Aftercare expenses for missing loved ones who are returned home. Program will publish missing person posters and provide preventative information in educational presentations on the intersections of domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and the connection to MMIWP.

Domestic Violence & MMIW Awareness & Support, BC

Community served: Prophet River First Nations Location: BC
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Currently Prophet River First Nation provides support to those who are experiencing Gender Based Violence. We hope to increase awareness and provide education and tools for prevention of GBV & MMIWP. We would like to provide group workshops and counseling sessions by professionals to create awareness and tools to deal with situations, provide grief and trauma counselling and host a MMIW awareness event. By increasing awareness and reducing the stigma around GBV & MMIW we hope to facilitate healing.

Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative, WA

Community served: Urban Natives South Puget Sound Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative’s (IHTC) mission is to engage first responders, Tribes, and other stakeholders in eliminating human trafficking through solution-based knowledge and trauma-informed strategies, and to empower survivors to heal and build self-sufficient, affirming lives. IHTC incorporates culturally appropriate and traditional healing practices into our work, which are fundamental to survivors’ achieving behavioral health. IHTC provides a lifeline of support for survivors, training for frontline workers and first responders, outreach and mobilization of counselors, housing, and youth specialists.

The Yarrow Project, WA

Community served: Seattle Urban Indigenous Community Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

The Sweetgrass Advocacy Program’s two primary focuses are 1.) individual and family advocacy for indigenous survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault for families of MMIWP and 2.) create a intra community and interagency protocol for responding to cases of MMIWP in Western Washington.

WA Chapter Tlingit & Haida MMIWP Awareness & Outreach, WA

Community served: WA Chapter Tlingit & Haida Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Chapter plans to develop curriculum to teach and educate our people on root causes and how to prevent these horrific acts and ending violence against women and girls. Plan to develop culturally specific training, advocacy, programming and policy development in the areas of domestic violence, sexual violence, MMIW and girls, stalking and sex trafficking.

Takla Nation MMIWP, BC

Community served: Takla First Nation Location: BC
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Organize campaign to educate youth (Grades 10-12) who need to leave remote village to finish schooling outside of community of Takla. Connect youth with providing regular visits to create a sense of belonging to be safer against crimes associated with MMIWP. Plan two community events in Takla to foster healing from trauma of losing Carmelita Braham to MMIWP.

MMIP Women, People & Families, WA

Community served: Urban Coast Salish PNW Tribes Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and Families (MMIP/F) is a survivor-led organization dedicated to bringing healing and justice to Indigenous communities by working alongside MMIP families. this woman-led movement helps find and advocate for missing relatives.

Carrying The Message, ID

Community served: Fort Hall Shoshone Bannock Location: ID
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Grassroots ideological/holistic healing and awareness work in and around domestic violence, at-risk youth, and education. Create a safe space for release, sharing, closure and support. Educate on DV, bullying, suicide, intergenerational trauma and missing and murdered. Provide intervention in homes with the families who need assistance in locating their missing relatives.

Standing Together To Heal As One, WA

Community served: Urban natives Thurston, Pierce, Mason & Lewis Counties Location: WA
Program: Gender Based Violence Year: 2022

Host a day long healing ceremony to help individuals and families heal from trauma caused by MMIWP epidemic. Sweat lodge, feeding the spirits, counselors, and advisors on reporting missing relatives, DV issues, and PTSD.