Collaborative Project of the Paqtnkek Health Centre and the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association Seeks Community Engagement to Addressing Violence Together

Paqtnkek Mi’kmaq Nation – The Paqtnkek Health Centre and the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association are looking for Advisory Committee members, having received funding from Status of Women Canada for a two-year, collaborative project to develop how we address sexual violence against Aboriginal women, working on both the response to violence and the prevention of violence, based in a culturally relevant and culturally revitalizing approach.

The importance of community in this kind of work is emphasized by Molly Peters, Community Facilitator. “It is up to us as communities to address the concerns of sexual violence and to engage and empower one another to develop healthy relationships which further create healthy communities. Issues of sexual violence against aboriginal women and girls can be seen on a national front through the Missing and Murdered Women and Girls and the Sisters In Spirit campaigns. It is vitally important to engage on a community level to resist against the epidemic of violence against women and girls nationally and furthermore to create healthy homes and communities.”

Peters and Annie Chau, Project Coordinator hope to ensure that stakeholders in sexual violence response and prevention through ...