According to the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, right now there are approximately 63,000 Canadian children living in permanent care with foster families, extended families, or in group homes. Across the country, 235,000 children and youth have been identified as having experienced or being at risk of experiencing abuse and neglect. These children and youths […]
Kendra Gage, executive director of Hulitan Family & Community Services Society on southern Vancouver Island, says true reconciliation will require a shift in worldview. She tells Kathryn Marlow that she wants to see bureaucrats decolonize the way they think and operate, and she explains what that would look like. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-48-on-the-island/clip/15932852-thinking-reconciliation-decolonization Aired: Aug. 25, 2022
May 10th is Bear Witness Day and is Spirit Bear’s birthday. It is an important date for Jordan’s Principle at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Jordan’s Principle is a child first principle and legal rule named in memory of Jordan River Anderson. It ensures First Nations children receive the services and supports they need when […]
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September 30th, Orange Shirt Day and now National Truth and Reconciliation Day, is a day to honour the journey of those who survived and did not survive the Residential school system, to take the time to hear and acknowledge the truth and take action to ensure the past is never repeated. The spirit of this […]
Good Morning , The Hulitan COVID Relief program has been busy. At this time we are providing support to over 200 families, which by our calculations is approximately 2000 individuals. Our Cultural Connections and Elder Support Worker Monica Charlie has been able to secure us some traditional foods. We are hoping to be able to […]
Good afternoon, We have been open to the public for two weeks now. It is a shift with all the precautions in place, but we are getting used to the one way hallways. We have been supporting the Urban Indigenous community with food hampers and gift cards at this time we have 174 families […]
Good morning, It is June 9, 2020 and Hulitan Family and Community Services just received its shipment of smart phones from SPARC. These phones will help to connect some vulnerable families to the supports that they need during this on going pandemic. Thank you so much for your generous donation.
Good afternoon, Thought an update on our COVID Support Program was due. We currently have 160 families in our program. This works out to supporting over 1000 elders, adults and children. We still have families applying to the program and there are approximately 10 on our “waitlist”. We are very grateful to have received funding […]
Good afternoon, For the past six weeks Hulitan Family and Community Services has provided approximately 24 families with food support via hampers or gift cards on a bi weekly basis. . It is the intention to expand this program to 100 plus families and include those families who may not be eligible for other supports […]
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