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Measuring Progress

• Community exhibiting lateral kindness • Dialogue about community concerns and opportunities is
increasingly healthy
• Increased open dialogue about healing relationships
as a community • More community members empowered to turn away from
self-harm or suicide
• Greater participation in healing initiatives

Key Challenges And Concerns

• Grief in the community has left legacy of damaged relationships with self, family, community
• Lack of highlighting the success of role models in our community, lack of acceptance of failure
• Suicides are happening in our community. Still a significant stigma, and lack of understanding. People still think it only
happens in situations of mental illness or substance abuse
• People are at different levels of understanding in their identity as Haudenosaunee people. Those learning, or who have
diverse backgrounds are bullied
• We do not always live our cultural teachings of inclusivity in relation to those who may be of other marginalized communities
such as other nationalities, two-spirit and LGBTQ+ people

Suggested Lead Partners

• Health Services • Breaking the Silence, • Ganohkwasra • Schools
Brightening the Spirit
• Social Services • Governance • New/emerging orgs

Timeline

OBJECTIVES STATUS IN 2019
Need to coordinate efforts of all the various organizations working on life promotion
Create a comprehensive life to create a nurturing approach that embraces victims and their families for long-term
promotion framework support, as well as collect and share data. Breaking the Silence, Brightening the Spirit
has coordinated initial conversations on the topic.
Create opportunities to nurture Many different programs providing this. Examples include Creative Pathways to healing,
cultural understandings of
SHORT grief, loss and emotion Hodinohsoni grief and loss talks.
(2019-2024)
Expand lateral kindness training Many organizations are offering training to explore the roots of lateral violence
and build strategies for respectful communication such as Ganohkwasra and Social
to all organizations
Services, needs to expand to all organizations.
Greater education and awareness needed to build understanding around two-
Create a culturally based spirit and LGBTQ+ issues. Must be rooted in our cultural teachings of freedom,
inclusivity initiative
understanding and inclusivity.
Create culturally-based Happening informally on the level of some interested teachers, but need for sustained
emotional intelligence and supported effort to understand emotions and specialized positions to facilitate it.
MEDIUM programming in schools
(2025-2029) Start a community forum to A forum where community members can share about their success journeys, reduce
discuss failure, growth and stigma of failure, and develop a model of success that reflects our community. Can
success integrate into schools and youth groups.
Our original relationships with other nations are based on respect through our
LONG Respectful Nation to Nation treaties and rights as Haudenosaunee people. Our leaders working under a cohesive
(2030-2039) relationships governance system need to be role models in building relationships with each other
and with governments based on good mind principles.

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