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My main duties consist of:
- Drawing up a list of telephone references.
- Providing personalized phone assistance to victims, by orienting
them to the appropriate legal, medical, social, and community
resources.
- Creating a directory of the various grant programs available
(training, human resources, etc.).
- Helping the women who run shelters to target their needs and
direct their requests to the right place.
- Acting to ensure the liaison between native women's shelters
and government representatives.
- Organizing meetings with native women's shelters in Quebec.
- Developing partnerships with the non-native milieu, so as to
respond to the real needs of the native community.
- Working in concert with organizations in the justice, health,
and social services networks as well as with those engaged in
community work.
- Creating and coordinating a committee dealing with native women's
shelters.
- Keeping statistics and files on the clientele.
- Sensitizing native communities to the needs of native women
shelters.
- Participating in the development of programs, services, and support intended for the victims of violence.
With the help of those in charge of women's shelters, we started establishing a network of native women's shelters in 2003. This endeavour has fostered exchanges involving both training and information.
The network includes the following shelters:
Asperimowin in La Tuque
Ashpukun Mitshuap in Schefferville
Native Women's Shelter in Montreal
Haven House in Listuguj
Tipinuakan in Sept-Îles
Missinak in Quebec
Waseya House in Kitigan Zibi
This network is designed to:
- Serve workers as a source and resource for exchange, references,
and training.
- Help the shelters sensitize native communities to the problem
of conjugal violence and to the importance of calling on the services
that shelters offer.
- Gather the experience and knowledge needed to promote non-violence
in the communities.
- Support shelters in the different activities and projects they undertake to improve the services they offer (administrative policies, regulations, codes of ethics, etc.)
This is a network of which I am proud: It is the embodiment of determined women fighting the good fight to promote non-violence in their communities.
Women's shelters located in the native milieu:
Asperimowin in La Tuque (819) 523-8600
Ashpukun Mitshuap in Schefferville (418) 585-3419
Native Women's Shelter of Montreal (514) 933-4688
Haven House in Listuguj (418) 788-5544
Waseya House in Kitigan Zibi (819) 449-7425
