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Political geek. Joe Clark Enthusiast. Advocate for Sexual Violence survivors. Advisor/Interim Chair @parityyeg/ co-host @badandbitchy Opinions are my own
Sep 29, 2018 10 tweets 4 min read
Thread) I worked for an organization in my 20s that ran two Indigenous healing centres. One for men and one for women.The work they did and do with inmates is amazing.
The purpose of these centres in part is preparing people to be released #CdnPoli @CPC_HQ @liberal_party The recidivism rate for those at these centres was incredibly low in part because of the intensive Indigenous focused programming to work thru the trauma that had led these men and women to commit crime. It’s hard work and they had to want to do the work to heal