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Moving to Action
Through the U-ACT Project, with support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres, our Community Action Circle was established to mobilize the community.
Almost two years later, through sharing, learning and acting, we have been working together, gathering knowledge on problems facing the community and finding solutions.
Our community is ready to build on its success. We want to implement our model, act on community priorities, increase capacity and become an Urban Aboriginal Strategy site. Compared to other sites, we are administratively small, housed in a Friendship Centre, and have no current funding to keep the momentum going.
However, being small, means we are nimble and responsive. Being housed in the Friendship Centre, means we are deeply connected to our Aboriginal community. Having established our Community Action Circle, where all major services, industries, local and provincial governments, and community organizations work together, means we now reach all corners of North Bay and the surrounding communities. Having created the North Bay Model for Urban Aboriginal Community Development, and having identified our priorities, we have completed our groundwork. We are ready to move forward, following the path that we have uniquely fashioned based on our community’s ways.
We also hope that the stories and the model shared can be of help to other urban Aboriginal communities working to support their community members to live a good life.
11Government of Canada, Urban Aboriginal Strategy – See Appendix A
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