Resiliency is a term used to describe individuals who are tough or have the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. But the way it is often used in academics and media is so problematic that I share my belief that when we only focus on how strong people are, we ignore the many challenges they should never have had to overcome in the first place!

The “Let Our Relatives In” campaign has 4 main ideas to support our relatives who sleep outside in Winnipeg. It involves increasing Indigenous representation in leadership, organization responses to calls to action/calls for justice, partnering with Thunderbird House & taking a healing centred and anti-racist approach to service delivery.

Today, the Youth Climate Lab released a very important document for young people who want to address climate change at the municipal level. I hope some of the youth in Winnipeg and in other cities take a look at the impact their cities have on climate change and take action.

How can we improve peoples wellness so that suicide never has to become an option? And as usual, the talking is only the beginning and much more important are the actions we take to move systems to be better.

We need everyone / this is re-sharing of a post published back in May 2016