{"id":140891,"date":"2023-02-16T16:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=140891"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:29:27","slug":"hamilton-regional-indian-centres-creating-connections-program-continues-growth-in-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/hamilton-regional-indian-centres-creating-connections-program-continues-growth-in-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Regional Indian Centre&#8217;s &#8216;Creating Connections&#8217; program continues growth in second year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hric.ca\/\">The Hamilton Regional Indian Centre<\/a> and The Boys and Girls Club of Hamilton and Halton have teamed up to continue their \"Creating Connections\" program to help both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth learn about addictions, mental health, and healing using the Seven Grandfather Teachings.<\/p>\n<p>Program Co-Facilitator Vanessa Henry said that the program has grown since its launch last year.<\/p>\n<p>\"I really like the fact that the program is actually growing. So when we first did it, we maybe had a handful, now we have 12 to 15 participants on a weekly basis\".<\/p>\n<p>Creating Connections began last year and the organizers hope to be able to continue to offer the eight week program year round with four opportunities a year to sign up. The program covers a different characteristic of the Seven Grandfather Teachings each week. During the 8th and final week, the program offers an opportunity for participants to speak with an elder or knowledge holder. A $10 honorarium is also available to participants who complete all eight weeks of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Henry spoke on the importance the role that the program plays with the youth involved.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our youth are our future generations, so they're voices being shared is very, very important,\" she said. \"Everybody has a story, so it's literally just created connections with the youth who are participating in this program\".<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the program, visit The Boys and Girls Club of Hamilton and Halton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgchh.com\/event\/creating-connections-3\/2021-02-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For the full CJKS story, listen below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamilton Regional Indian Centre and The Boys and Girls Club of Hamilton and Halton have teamed up to continue their &#8220;Creating Connections&#8221; program to help both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth learn about addictions, mental health, and healing using the Seven Grandfather Teachings. Program Co-Facilitator Vanessa Henry said that the program has grown since its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":140908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221],"tags":[23475,23476,23477,23474,23478,7743],"radio":[13052],"origine":[267,13048,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141294,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140891\/revisions\/141294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140891"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=140891"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=140891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}