Municipal Indigenous Community Awareness Training

I am sharing an upcoming Indigenous Community Awareness training. OFIFC Indigenous Community Awareness | AMO The training is offered through a partnership between the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres.

I attended this training last week and it’s the first Indigenous Cultural awareness training that I’ve seen that focuses on the Municipal context and brings together people from Municipalities across Ontario to learn from one another. The training is a combination of online modules and live webinar session. The online modules took me between 2-3 hours to complete. The live session was 3.5 hours and was a combination of facilitators sharing knowledge and small break-out rooms.

The course speaks to agreements and understandings that were made both before and after Colonization and that extend to everyone living on Turtle Island (North America). It provides some examples of what Municipalities are doing to live up to those obligations.

I would say the course is valuable for everyone from an education standpoint, but the examples are more at a Corporate level.

Please feel free to share this information with colleagues who may be interested. And, please let me know if you have any questions. If you do attend, please let me know what your experience was like.

Rebecca