Considerations

Strengthen a spirit of alliance across Vancouver Island.

Recommendation 5:

• Envision an island where Indigenous people are whole, safe, strong, housed—transformed through love and care
• Identify sister communities
• Build and maintain strong partnerships, create MoU’s, protocols for practice
• Commit to action through short and long term planning

Action framework

Short-term goals

Recommendation 6:

1. Establish Indigenous supports in Victoria to align traditional practice with Western models of harm reduction
2. Develop a ‘healing house’ to support people being discharged from hospital, treatment and incarceration to provide them with time and support to heal and strengthen their spirit
3. Pilot a Residence Managed Alcohol Program
4. Begin to reach out across the Island to establish pockets of Indigenized harm reduction ‘healing communities’, seek funding
5. Provide culturally supportive housing

Action framework

Medium-term goals

Recommendation 7:

1. Pilot Island Wide ‘healing communities’
2. Conduct research; gather data
3. Expand Managed Alcohol Residence programming
4. Provide culturally supportive housing

Action framework

Long-term goals

Recommendation 8:

1. Open an Indigenous Healing Centre in Victoria for the ASC
2. Provide culturally supportive housing
3. Operate residence MAP programming