2020 Winter 0_CHI Project Manual

We have members across BC, and acknowledge the multiple First Nations traditional territories where we live, work and play. Our organization is housed in the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, and centered in the islands of the mid-Salish Sea, as such we specifically acknowledge our organizational host, the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, and our hosts of several nations, collectively the SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples, also referred to as the Malchosen, the Lekwungen, the Semiahmoo, and the T’Sou-ke.

We work on a way forward that is based on mutual respect and marked by stories of our communities cooperating in this time of Truth and Reconciliation.

The O_CHI logo is five rings that overlap each other surrounded by a circle of dots.

The five rings represent five marginalized communities, Indigenous/Two-Spirit, trans/nonbinary, Sex Workers, People With Disabilities, and Newcomers.

The overlap represents the intersectionality of our communities.

The colours represent the uniqueness of each, the white our common struggles The O_CHI dash states that equity is never dependent on identity The Silver center represents our common goal of improving wellness in our community The circle of dots represents our ongoing welcome to all to join us.

All Rainbow Health Co-operative Educational Materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.

To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/4.0/. Not all our documents are licensed for redistribution and are marked as reserved.

This document is not licensed for distribution and is RESERVED, but available for your use per these terms: We respectfully request that normal business standards of confidentiality are maintained and that:

•

all information in this document is treated as confidential

•

it is not shared for any other purpose without permission

•

requests for information to any organization regarding this content is solely through Rainbow Health Co-operative

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this document – do not hesitate to contact us.

The Directors, Rainbow Health Co-op Phone – (888) 241-9992 Fax – (888) 623-3481 Email – directors@rainbowhealth.coop

Our Co-op members, who work together to get better together, the work and effort of all O_CHI participants / community members who are generous in sharing their experiences, and the O_CHI Project Leads, Coordinators and Researchers who go above and beyond in our common effort to grow wellness in our communities. Thank You.

We acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia

INDEX OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Forward

Safeguard Everyone Foundations of Wellness

Identify Stakeholders Directories That Work

Engage People T’eVine, Our Community Network

Exchange All the tricks, producer bootcamp

Sustain Capacity The Way of the Wand

Collect All Data Six Jungian Thinking Hats

Create Meaning Vernacular Pattern Languages

Projects of Innovation

Evaluate Results Rings of Reflection

Improve Ser vices Our Framework for Change Appendices

What is not Systemic Change Investigation?

•

Asking how people feel about things that are easily discernable without deeper analysis

•

Information without an usable action plan

•

Short term deliverables

•

A process replicating 70% of other processes

We see systemic change through a strength-based lens that reveals a day when the world sees our community as respected, vital, and important.

The dawn of that day is when we see ourselves that way.

The path to that dawn is the Way of the Wand, it invites us to: •

Respect the traditions of others

•

Do things that are important to others

•

Celebrate key community moments and events

SYSTEMIC CHANGE INVESTIGATION IS RESEARCH AS SERVICE, NOT AS AN INTERVENTION •

Requires significant opportunity

•

Requires reallocation of resources

•

Requires a paradigm shift

•

Requires revision of existing roles

•

Requires a pressing need

•

Requires trust and commitment

•

Requires synchronicity to occur

•

Must be self-sustaining in time

•

Requires critical thinking skills

•

Unlikely to be widely supported

•

Requires adaptive learning processes

•

Has the characteristics of a singularity

•

Requires decades to accomplish

•

Based in Principles of Natural Law

“ We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein

The word spread and three weeks later there many, many people at the settler's camp. There they found that Douglas had prepared large piles of many gifts, amongst them very good wool blankets, which like a settler hat might mean the difference between life and death in a cold winter. The people saw this gifting as a potlatch and a way of making peace. Douglas asked for the right to collect furs and enough land to feed the people doing the work. He showed the leaders pieces of paper with symbols on them. To the settlers these were x's. To We acknowledge all the traditional knowledge keepers and the people they were crosses, and evidence that Douglas was swearstory tellers, in particular, Chief David Latass who was there ing by that which was sacred to him. They agreed that the settlers the day of the treaty and Dave Elliot Sr., his great nephew for could continue as guests, that reparations for the wrongs had been received and there would peace between them. This was to be remaking it possible for us to remember and retell this story. newed through an ongoing process of potlatches and sharing. This For thousands of years, tens of thousands, for as long as people have was normal to the settlers and something they did in the land they lived anywhere, people lived on these lands. The people cared for came from on what they called the Quarter Days. (the Solstices and these lands and waters, the lands and waters were rich and the peoEquinoxes) ple thrived. In 1763, King George, the country many settlers came But shortly after the settlers and the people became very, ill. The from, acknowledged that these people were sovereign nations. people got infected with a pox, a disease the settlers brought with A few years later, in 1776, a small band of merchants and farmers them and died in the tens of thousands. The settlers got a different who had come to these territories wrote a letter to the world that illness called Gold Fever, and it clouded their wisdom and darkened declared that all people have the right of security, freedom and haptheir hearts. In time, the agreement to be here was forgotten or igpiness and those rights cannot be separated from them. And that the nored by the settlers. But the people who knew how to remember a purpose of all governments is to secure those rights. It became story and did so. From Uncle to Nephew, from mother to daughter, known as the Declaration of Independence. the story has been remembered and retold. It is time for settlers to A generation after that letter, Captain Vancouver sailed this coast share the task of remembrance and to pay the rent agreed. and called what he saw the dreary wilderness, broken only by the It is here, in the islands and the southern mainland, the corrosion of many towns and villages of the people who lived there since time colonialism etched deeper. As such, it is here and to the people who immemorial. But here, on the south coast of the Island, with its oak lived here before us we owe the most. We need to acknowledge meadows and camus fields, it was different and beautiful and he what we owe. marked so on his maps. That beauty remains today as does the unWhen we acknowledge territory, we settlers also need to broken relationship of the people who lived here before us. acknowledge our ways in this place. The province that is home to the Three generations later when settlers returned, they came to these Trail of Tears. The province where predators like Robert Picton took shores, knowing this was a beautiful place. dozens of our sisters from our lives. The province that is the largest They came for one reason, the fur of marine mammals, an essential un-treatied land area in North America and one of the largest in the ingredient to their way of life. We have lost sight of how important world. This is occupation, and to say otherwise is to deny our history. fur was at that time. The furs were stripped and matted to produce a It is why we return here to the Grove of Souls in Bastion Square, symwaterproof felt that was fashioned into hats and bootlets. In that bol of the place where our paths first crossed. We return to strike a time, there was no transit, people walked or rode, there was safety new path into a future of mutual respect anchored by treaty benet, you worked or you starved, and almost all work was done outtween sovereign peoples. There is no future for either of us without side. A waterproof hat and boots made it possible to work harder the other, and that is a future we must live in cooperation and reand longer outside, and thus provide for yourself and your family. A spect, not in anger and distrust. hat to those people was like a combination of a pickup truck and a smartphone would be to us today - and in relative terms, just as valu- As trans people, our people have lived amongst all people in all places, in all times. Our ancestors were the guests of the people of this able. place, as we are their guests today. We thank them for their hospitalThe people who came here came from countries where commoners ity today and the welcome they showed us in the past. We look fordid not own land. The elite of that time were not about to start anyward to the day when trans and Indigenous peoples reclaim our histhing as radical letting anyone own land. And so there were two peotorical relationship. ples, one who had been here forever, who were responsible for the land and waters, yet no one owned, and another, newcomers who worked the land, yet no one owned.

After the newcomers had been here for just a short while, there were problems. They cut down trees in the 10 mile point area that were not theirs to cut down. The people who lived there were under the protection of the Wsanec people and so they told them what had happened. There were other problems as well. That day on this Island there were around 49 settlers and 35,000 First Nations people.

The men came down to the settler camp in Beacon Hill and were ready to burn them out and send them back to where they came, because that is how you took care of business in that time and place.

They met Douglas who listened to what had happened. He saw what was going to happen next. He asked them, "Give me a chance to settle this another way". Douglas himself was married to a First Nations woman, and her family was known and respected in the north.

So, they relented a bit and said, “What do you have in mind?” Douglas said, “Come back in three weeks and I will show you.”

We acknowledge that as service providers we rely on an intangible Social License rooted in the perceptions and opinions held by our community about services and providers of services.

A Social License is an inalienable attribute of any community.

As service providers we are called to stewardship of this privilege.

This intangible social license is made tangible through a Community License.

To operate without consideration of such a license is to act in a nonconsensual manner. It remains non-permanent because perceptions change as new information is acquired, and our obligation to maintain our license on an ongoing basis.

More info at xqq.ca/communitylicense

Is the promotion of gender wellness through education. Gender wellness is the set of personal strategies and public policies that makes our genders a beneficial part of our lives, families, and communities.

Are people and their families who are: exploring, considering, living through, or wanting to share their lived experience of physical, social, and personal

There is no single narrative of the trans condition or experience, but there are clusters of importance.

Our experience of gender is different because we are trans, we are not trans because our experience of gender is different.

The trans phenomena has two constituent parts, the trans condition, which is innate, and the trans experience, which is persistent.

The superconscious is an active information source in all environments but it does not communicate in words.

The first job of all humans is to leave behind a better planet than the one we were given at birth.

Identify cohorts with specific needs within the T2NBY community Develop community capacity to lead in all aspects of the project Establish a base line of program metrics usable by multiple agencies Identify service, healthcare, government, and community stakeholders Ensure the safety of the project team and those they interact with Design a pilot program to address the needs identified by a specific cohort

2008—250 Million Transistors Average 2018—7-8 Billion Transistors Average

TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY PROJECTS OF INNOVATION

Growing the changes needed for healthier communities requires: A convincing argument consisting of a clearly stated need and an effective solution

The authority to speak and access to decision makers who will listen A network of persistent communities working together to create improvement for each A strategy for changing beliefs as well as knowledge

Our work is to create the conditions where this growth happens.

O_CHI establishes the community capacity needed to ensure that resources directed to our community’s healthcare are allocated equitably and effectively.

Forward OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

1

Safeguard Everyone Foundations of Wellness

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

2

Identify Stakeholders Directories That Work

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

3

Engage People T’eVine, Our Community Network

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

4

Exchange All the tricks, producer bootcamp

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

5

Sustain Capacity The Way of the Wand

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

6

Collect All Data Six Jungian Thinking Hats

Appendices

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

7

Create Meaning Vernacular Pattern Languages

Community-based Systemic Change Proximity Heuristics and Whole Consciousness Data Collection

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

8

Projects of Innovation

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

9

Evaluate Results Rings of Reflection

OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

10

Improve Ser vices Our Framework for Change Appendices