Item - 2020.AA5.5

Tracking Status

AA5.5 - Trauma-Informed Land-Based Response to COVID-19

Decision Type:
Presentation
Status:
Amended
Wards:
All

Committee Decision

The Aboriginal Affairs Advisory Committee recommends to the Economic and Community Development Committee that:

 

1.  City Council request the Director, Indigenous Affairs Office, in consultation with relevant City staff and divisions, to engage with Native Child and Family Services of Toronto to explore how the land-based programs in the presentation from Siobhan McCarthy, Director, Holistic Services, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, and Mark Atanasoff, Director, Quality Assurance and Decolonization, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, can be incorporated in the City of Toronto's Indigenous place-making strategy.

Decision Advice and Other Information

Siobhan McCarthy, Director, Holistic Services, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, and Mark Atanasoff, Director, Quality Assurance and Decolonization, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, gave a presentation on Trauma-Informed Land-Based Response to COVID-19.

Summary

Siobhan McCarthy, Director, Holistic Services, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, and Mark Atanasoff, Director, Quality Assurance and Decolonization, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, will give a presentation on Trauma-Informed Land-Based Response to COVID-19.

Background Information

(July 7, 2020) Presentation from the Director, Holistic Services, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, and the Director, Quality Assurance and Decolonization, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto on Seeking Expansion of Land Based Programming - Learnings from Native Child and Family Services of Toronto's Trauma-Informed Land-Based Response to COVID-19
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2020/aa/bgrd/backgroundfile-148775.pdf

Motions

Motion to Amend Item moved by Jeffrey Schiffer (Carried)

That the Aboriginal Affairs Advisory Committee recommends that:

 

1.  City Council request the Director, Indigenous Affairs Office, in consultation with relevant City staff and divisions, to engage with Native Child and Family Services of Toronto to explore how the land-based programs in the presentation from Siobhan McCarthy, Director, Holistic Services, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, and Mark Atanasoff, Director, Quality Assurance and Decolonization, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, can be incorporated in the City of Toronto's Indigenous place-making strategy.

Source: Toronto City Clerk at www.toronto.ca/council