Program - Virtual Dialogue 24 Feb 2022

COLLABORATIVE MASCULINITIES

24 FEB 2022 17:00-18:30 EST

VIRTUAL DIALOGUE PROGRAM This virtual dialogue explores the opportunities and complexities of calling-in Indigenous boys and young men to the movement to end GBV, rediscover healthy masculinities and make healing, safety and freedom a reality for all Indigenous youth.

The conversation takes place with Indigenous youth and adult allies who are actively engaged in the movement to address GBV through community research, art-making, activism and intergenerational mentoring & auntieship.

We will explore critical issues facing Indigenous boys and young men today, both prevention and intervention initiatives, and strategies to support healing, health and well-being.

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Claudia Mitchell, Project Director claudia.mitchell@mcgill.ca Leann Brown, Project Coordinator leann.brown@mcgill.ca

VIRTUAL DIALOGUE PROGRAM

17:00 EST

WELCOME

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CLAUDIA MITCHELL Lead Investigator, More Than Word & Pathwats2Equity Claudia's research focuses on participatory visual and arts based approaches to working with young people and communities in relation to addressing critical social issues such as gender equality and gender based violence.

Claudia is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, the director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and director of the Participatory Cultures Lab at McGill.

THE DIALOGUE

Co-Facilitators

17:05 EST

SARAH FLICKER Associate Professor, York University Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on engaging youth and other actors in environmental, sexual and reproductive justice. She employs community-based participatory methodologies to promote adolescent sexual health and respond to gender-based violence in Canada and South Africa.

Her research has informed policy at the municipal, provincial and federal levels. She is a member of the More Than Words & Pathways2Equity Implementing Team, specifically supporting the amazing work of Young Indigenous Women's Utopia.

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VIRTUAL DIALOGUE PROGRAM

DIALOGUE

Youth & Adult Allies

17:10 EST

Indigenous youth leaders share knowledge and explore ideas related to the involvement of boys and young men in their ongoing work to address GBV and create safe communities.

Adult allies respond to the topics and priorities brought forward by youth and share their experience in supporting youth work.

What do boys and young men need to know in your community?

What work is currently underway? How are male identifying Indigenous youth already involved?

What critical issues are Indigenous boys and young men facing today?

What difference can more engagement from boys make?

Dialogue

How can we engage Indigenous young men in gender transformation youth work?

Are there challenges to involving young men in violence prevention work?

What can we learn from existing programs and projects?

How do we ensure young women and 2spirit youth feel safe and heard as we make more space for young men?

WRAP UP

18:20 EST

Overview of key discussion topics and the next steps for Pathways2Equity.

The Collaborative Masculinities Review is shared with an invitation for input.

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MEET THE YOUTH LEADERS

YOUTH

Dialogists HAILY MAY USSAK GET ART, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Haily May Ussak is a mentor in the Girls Expressing Themselves Through Art Program and is facilitating workshops with younger girls and boys as part of more Than Words and pathways2Equity

JULIA USSAK GET ART, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Julia is also a GET ART mentor and workshop facilitator. Alongside her cousin, Haily May, she leads youth through culturally rich artsbased programming.

GABBY DANIELS Young Indigenous Women's Utopia, Treaty 6 Gabby is Plains Cree, Southern Paiute and a Young Indigenous Women's Utopia youth leader. She is currently studying at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, but is never too far from her fam in Treaty 6, the Traditional Homeland of the Métis (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan).

HUGH PAUL Youth Researcher, The Way Forward, Eskasoni ꞌ

Hugh is a young Mi kmaq man from Eskasoni First Nation, the largest Aboriginal community in all of Atlantic Canada. Hugh has been working alongside Linda Liebenberg to develop The Way Forward, a local training program for young men that promotes men’s health and wellness, and equips them to act as mentors for younger boys in the community.

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ADULT

Dialogists ELIZABETH COOPER Research Scientist, Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation Assistant Professor, University of Regina Elizabeth Cooper (Settler Scholar) is a Research Scientist with the Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation and Research Unit, and an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina on Treaty 4 territory and Métis homelands.

Her work is strengths based and community-driven. She focuses on working with communities to find ways to promote health and wellbeing through arts-based and cultural practice on sensitive topics that often lead to negative health outcomes such as suicide, intimate partner violence, and health risk behaviours.

MORRIS GREEN Health Education Consultant, Halifax, Nova Scotia Morris Green is a health education consultant who has worked with teenagers for 40 years across a wide range of youth health issues, including injury prevention, physical activity, and healthy eating. His most recent work focuses on the pressures and expectations around masculinity and their impact on the health of young men. He retired from the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness in 2017 where he worked as the Coordinator of Youth Health. While working in government he created Guys Work in partnership with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Guys Work is a school-based, and evidence-based health promotion initiative designed to shift attitudes around masculinity norms. Morris Green has an undergraduate degree in physical education from Dalhousie University in Halifax, and a graduate degree in science from Columbia University in New York City.

CHRIS GILHAM Associate Professor, St. Francis Xavier University Dr. Chris Gilham has been working in education for over 25 years now. He loves teaching and working with others to create, implement and evaluate practical, school-based mental health programming for educators and students. He taught grades 3 to 9 in public schools in Tokyo, Windsor, Ontario, and Calgary. He was a Mental Health and Behaviour Consultant with the Calgary Board of Education for 5 years. While a PhD student and teaching his first Bachelor of Education course at the University of Calgary, he was nominated by his students for the Outstanding Teaching Award. Several years later he would be nominated again by Master’s students at StFX for the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, which he received in 2019. He teaches courses related to programming for students with different, often complex needs; mental health literacy; critical research literacy and the philosophy of education. Chris is currently engaged in SSHRC-sponsored research on mental health literacy for educators, as well as Nova Scotia Status of Women-sponsored research on boys-specific groups as part of gender transformative work.

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ADULT

Dialogists ROBERT HENRY Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan Robert Henry, PhD, is Métis from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Indigenous Studies. Robert’s research areas include Indigenous street gangs and gang theories, Indigenous masculinities, Indigenous and critical research methodologies, youth mental health and visual research methods. Working closely with community partners, Robert works to create knowledge mobilization outcomes that reflect community needs and wants. He’s published a photovoice narrative collection with Indigenous male gang members titled Brighter Days Ahead (2013) and has recently submitted another collection in partnership with Indigenous females and their involvement in street gangs.

LINDA LIEBENBERG Researcher & Evaluator, Halifax, Nova Scotia is a leading researcher and evaluator with a core interest in children and youth with complex needs, and the communities they live in. Her work explores the promotion of positive youth development and mental health through civic engagement and community development. As a key component of this work, Linda reflects critically on how best to conduct research and evaluations with children and their communities, including participatory arts-based methods; sophisticated longitudinal quantitative designs; and the design of measurement instruments used with children and youth. Linda has presented internationally and published extensively on these topics of research and youth.

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Claudia Mitchell, Project Director claudia.mitchell@mcgill.ca

Leann Brown, Project Coordinator REGISTER leann.brown@mcgill.ca