Returning to Our Roots

The Returning to our Roots Project will allow Indigenous youth to have better access to traditional and healing ceremonies to promote wellness, mind, body, and spirit. The project will provide a culturally safe space for Indigenous Peoples to connect with their culture, engage in traditional practices, and learn teachings with traditional Knowledge Keepers and Helpers, Indigenous social workers, and Indigenous child and youth care workers. The full moon sweat lodge ceremony provides a unique space for women to come together on a monthly basis to share knowledge, support each other, and engage in a healing sweat lodge to honour their sacredness to Creation. As an extension project, Indigenous youth can attend two cultural healing camps that will foster supportive environments for Indigenous youth to participate in land-based programming that reconnects them with their heritage and instills in them the value of the natural relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land.