The Our Children Our Way Society developed Culture is Healing: An Indigenous Child & Youth Mental Wellness Framework to respond to the need for shifts in practice.
Culture is Healing encourages practitioners, policy, and legislative drafters to engage in ongoing reflexive practice to consider how to integrate the guiding principles highlighted in Culture is Healing into their own work. The framework guides practitioners to ask: “How am I showing up in a good way to work with and for Indigenous children, youth, families, and communities?”
The framework also highlights system change strategies, outlining ways in which the overall Mental Wellness system can integrate a Culture is Healing approach to better support innovative practice.