Finding Our Power Together

✨️Meet Kady! One of our new Program Assistants at Finding Our Power Together. ⁠
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Kady is Ojibwe from Batchewana First Nation and is a student currently pursuing a double major in Business and Sociology. Her end career goal is to open her own a business one day that reconnects traditional values to the social economy. ⁠
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Her current position within Finding Our Power Together (FOPT) is Program Assistant, committed to supporting the organization’s programs, initiatives, and community impact. ⁠
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👀You'll find Katy working on uplifting others, creating welcoming environments, and helping people feel seen, valued, and supported. She is inspired by strong community leaders, resilience, and the power of people coming together to create change.

✨ This Indigenous History Month, go deeper than awareness. ✨

What does it actually mean to understand Indigenous pasts, respond to the present, and help build Indigenous futures rooted in resurgence?

Join Finding Our Power Together for Indigenous Past, Present and Future: Decolonization, Reconciliation and Resurgence: an online Lunch & Learn designed for professionals, service providers, educators, organizations, and community partners who want to strengthen how they work alongside Indigenous communities.

This session will explore Indigenous histories and contemporary realities through storytelling, cultural framing, and practice-based teaching. Together, we’ll unpack how reconciliation, decolonization, and resurgence are not just concepts, but responsibilities that shape how we listen, lead, serve, teach, and build relationships. 🌿

🗓 Tuesday, June 23, 2026
⏰ 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
💻 Online
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Nicole Ineese-Nash and Nyle Miigizi Johnston

If your work brings you into relationship with Indigenous peoples, youth, families, communities, or organizations, this session will help you move beyond surface-level learning toward more grounded, reflective, and relational practice.

📍 Register now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-past-present-and-future-tickets-1990590525848

Let’s learn, reflect, and move forward with intention. ❤️🖤🤍💛

When you’re not okay, having simple tools can help you pause, steady yourself, and choose your next step.⁠
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These DBT skills can support emotional regulation in the moment, but you do not have to manage everything alone. Indigenous youth deserve mental health support that is practical, culturally grounded, and rooted in care.⁠
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Finding Our Power Together offers mental health programming for Indigenous youth, including culturally relevant supports. This includes counselling, peer mentorship, and skill building programs! ⁠
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Reach out to learn more or get connected.⁠
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How do Indigenous youth actually experience the mental health system in the GTA?

On May 26, join us for a Lunch & Learn sharing key findings from the Bridging the Gaps Study, a community-based research project exploring how Indigenous youth navigate mental health services, supports, barriers, and systems in the Greater Toronto Area. This session will bring together research insights, youth journey mapping, and multiple analytical perspectives to help us think differently about practice, policy, and systems change.

Led by Dr. Nicole Ineese-Nash, with poster presentations from Breanna Berry, Richelle Sauve, Joshua Parkins, and Keelin Eastveld, this event is for service providers, educators, researchers, policymakers, community organizations, students, and anyone working to better support Indigenous youth.

If we want systems to work better for Indigenous youth, we need to understand the journeys youth are already navigating and where those systems are creating gaps, barriers, and opportunities for change.

Event details:
📅 May 26, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM
💻 Online
🎤 Lunch & Learn

Register today:
🌐 www.findingourpowertogether.com