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Prevention and Discussion Circle Through Quilt-making Carrie Martin carrie.nwsm@gmail

Prevention and Discussion Circle Through Quilt-making Carrie Martin carrie.nwsm@gmail.com Pascale C. Annoual artracines@bellnet.ca. Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal Established in 1987 Only shelter of its kind in Montreal Services (traditional and mainstream)

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Prevention and Discussion Circle Through Quilt-making Carrie Martin carrie.nwsm@gmail

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  1. Prevention and Discussion Circle Through Quilt-making Carrie Martin carrie.nwsm@gmail.com Pascale C. Annoual artracines@bellnet.ca

  2. Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal • Established in 1987 • Only shelter of its kind in Montreal • Services (traditional and mainstream) • Holistic Health Project (formerly the Harm Reduction Project)

  3. Clientele of the NWSM • Various issues: homelessness; conjugal violence; addictions; PTSD; medical issues; culture shock; racism; youth protection; etc. • Discrimination: culture; financial situation; gender; language; beliefs; sexual orientation; negative public attitudes; etc.

  4. Culturally Appropriate Service Delivery Model • Traditional meeting medical • Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual healing (integrated and holistic approach) • Medicines and ceremonies • Emphasis is placed on healing from the effects of residential school and intergenerational trauma

  5. Integrated care: art, culture, & critical thinking • Empowerment: • doing something meaningful • recognition of lived experience • collective solidarity • Holistic: • all senses, remembering, • storytelling, trusting , sharing, healing • hoping, preventing, dreaming

  6. What is a prayer bundle? www.beadedprayersproject.com

  7. Steps to create a wish/prayer bundle. 2 2 1 4 3

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