A leadership council was established to guide this strategic visioning process. The leadership council met for the first time at a visioning retreat in Fall 2023 in Canmore, Alberta and created the following video, speaking to the value of visioning through ceremony. On December 1, 2023, CAAN launched Wapiwin Akinê to coincide with World AIDS Day and Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week. Wapiwin Akinê is supported by the Canadian Red Cross Society through the Government of Canada’s Community Services Recovery Fund. Read more here
Since 1997, CAAN has been proud to serve the Indigenous people of this land with many programs and projects – marrying tradition, ceremony, and best practices into tools that can help our communities heal and thrive.
The 4 Directions Hub at CAAN provides meaningful stakeholder dialogue by collaborating with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities to guide appropriate and culturally relevant engagement when it comes to matters surrounding HIV, HCV, STBBI and Harm Reduction.
IIWGHA’s mission is to create an international voice and structure that links Indigenous peoples with their Indigenous leadership, varying levels of governments, AIDS service organizations, cooperatives, and others in a global collective action to lower the disproportionate impact of HIV and AIDS experienced by Indigenous peoples.
One Vision, Many Paths: Indigenous Solutions for Tuberculosis & HIV
For Indigenous people across Canada, tuberculosis (TB) is not a thing of the past. InOne Vision, Many Paths, we uncover why that is – and what’s being done about it.
Every Friday starting March 3, 2023, stay tuned for our four-part podcast series. Host Jen Quesnel speaks with some of the nation’s foremost Indigenous policy makers, nurses, researchers and community organizers on the front lines of the TB response.
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The Fireside Chats series serves as a monthly opportunity to share and discuss different research projects focusing on Indigenous women and HIV in Canada, and to provide capacity-building opportunities.
These documentaries are part of an award-winning series of three stand-alone films, called Promising Practices. These films highlight how Indigenous communities in Canada are utilizing harm reduction with cultural practices and evidence-based methods enhance health outcomes.
The JIHR is an annual on-line journal published by CAAN as a service to its members and anyone with an interest in Indigenous community-based research (CBR).
The Nine Genders teaching came through the offering of tobacco. As we were sitting by a sacred fire, like the one in the slide before this one, a young man was giving me cigarettes and through these offerings the ancestors answered him using my voice.
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The Spotted Eagle Society is a National Indigenous Men’s advisory committee within Communities, Alliances, & Networks (CAAN). One of our objectives is to give a voice to Indigenous men and boys across Canada towards centering and living their best cultural lives.
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