Blackfoot Family Lodge’s Soaring Hearts housing project provides a stable environment where women canaccess life- and work-skills programming.Program Spotlight: Buildinga Sustainable Future forIndigenous Women, BlackfootFamily Lodge Society,Lethbridge, AlbertaBlackfoot Family Lodge offers transitionalhousing to support Indigenous women andtheir children who have migrated to thecity. The program helps women focus onsustainable futures by providing access tochildcare, life- and work-skills development,counselling, and activities rooted in Blackfoottraditions with support from elders and peers.It offers a new start for Blackfoot women andtheir children. Some of them may be startingjobs or attending school. Others may befleeing difficult circumstances and looking forsafety and stability.“We hope to createa safe and stablecommunity wherethey help eachother and inspiretheir children to berespectful and kind.”– Mary Ann Crow Healy, ExecutiveDirector, Blackfoot Family LodgeSociety27
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