Hope Arises Project Inc.
Hope Arises Project Inc. offers interactive and informative cultural competency training to all sectors. We are committed to promoting connection to Indigenous culture for those experiencing loss or interruption of cultural identity. We work to create opportunities for connection within the greater community.
Vision & Mission
Our mission is to strengthen cultural understanding and knowledge to address cultural misconceptions and barriers. We aim to offer expressions of reconciliation through education, learning, and connection.
Mission
Vision
Our vision is to revitalize Indigenous ways of being and knowing. We envision a community committed to fostering cultural parity, diversity, and acceptance.
Core Values
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Guiding Principles
All my relations
Acknowledging the interconnectedness, interdependence, worth and mutual
responsibility of all peoples, creatures and lands; a common conceptualization
of all things living among Indigenous peoples.
Reconciliation
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) defines reconciliation
as an ongoing process of establishing and maintaining respectful relationships
between Indigenous Peoples, the state, and non-Indigenous peoples. Implementing the TRC’s Calls to Action in a meaningful way within our community.
Dismantling Cultural Biases
Providing the educational opportunities necessary to dismantle colonial biases currently in place in our communities. Promoting cultural parity by creating an understanding of Indigenous knowledge, perspectives, and worldviews. Incorporating these aspects into non-Indigenous structures, organizations, and systems in a safe and impactful way.
Promoting & Preserving Indigenous Culture
Celebrating and acknowledging the diversity of Indigenous cultures by highlighting different ways of knowing, being, and doing. Highlighting the accomplishments of the Indigenous community and creating pathways for connection to knowledge and understanding that may have been lost through the inherent inequalities and intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools.
Community Partnership & Unity
Working to create a sense of unity and trust between Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals and organizations within our community. We are stronger as a community
Indigenous Leadership & Consultation
Ensuring the voices and needs of the Indigenous community are heard, understood, and respected. Valuing and respecting the importance and significance of Indigenous knowledge-keepers and elders as keepers and teachers of Indigenous knowledge and cultural traditions.
Residential School Crisis Line
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The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program provides mental health, emotional and cultural support services to eligible former Indian Residential School students and their families throughout all phases of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. All services, including the crisis line, are safe, confidential, respectful and non-judgmental.
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Call 1-866-925-4419 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.