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Youth, women and men, submit your story and join the role model campaign!

Approximately six people from across Inuit Nunangat will be featured in a video and poster campaign that will share Inuit examples of healthy relationships and how to live free of violence.

Introduction

This Role Model Campaign seeks to encourage all people – including youth and elders – to share and learn more about what healthy relationships look like in the home, in the community, and in relationships with a boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse. To nominate a role model is to recommend someone who makes you feel safe, who teaches through their actions how to act and be peaceful and shows what it means to live a life free from violence. Those nominated must be 18 years of age or older and can have any gender identity.

The campaign is a way for community members across Inuit Nunangat to acknowledge someone in their daily life who demonstrates characteristics of Inuit societal values that foster healthy relationships, gender equality and a way of living free from violence.

Characteristics of a role model

Respectful

Respectful of all people and the land, makes others feel safe, is trustworthy and treats everyone fairly
When experiencing conflict and you need support, they are trusted
Example: “I could tell them anything. I feel safe and I know they won’t gossip.”

When in a relationship, provides care and respect for their partner
Example: “No matter how they are feeling, they don’t judge, and they take the time to listen and support their partner. They live and share a life free of violence and harm.”

Ready to help

Always ready to help friends, family and the community
Offers to help someone who is experiencing violence at home
Example: “My neighbours noticed that I was facing challenges at home and came to ask me what she could do to help.”

Offers to help someone who is grieving
Example: “My friend noticed that I was going through a tough time and took the time to offer to go out for a long walk together.”

Ready and willing to share

Uses skills and knowledge to help those around them
A community member who is skilled at helping people resolve issues
Example: “My sister-in-law helped my brother and I to find positive solutions.”

A youth at school is attentive to others in the school yard
Example: “When kids start a fight my friend stops them, doesn’t take sides and helps those involved talk it out calmly.”

Welcoming and inclusive

Being welcoming, open and inclusive
A community member whose home offers a safe and welcoming environment
Example: “In their home I feel safe. They never shout. They work to find solutions.”

A community member who always ensures everyone’s participation in all activities, regardless of gender or age
Example: “Our shop teacher invites all students to work together. Girls and boys feel equally welcome and supported.”

Ready and willing to teach and learn

Learns and teaches by doing
An elder takes time to share lessons on how to keep harmony
Example: “After school, my grandmother shares stories to help me learn how to be responsible for my own actions.”

Girls and boys enjoy equal opportunities to feel safe
Example: “Our community hockey coach is honest and respectful and expects us to behave the same way on and off the ice.”

Year Published 2019

• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-English-1.pdf
• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-N-Baffin.pdf
• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-Nunavik.pdf
• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-Inuvialuit.pdf
• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-Nunavik-English.pdf
• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-Nunavut-N-Baffin.pdf
• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-Nunavut-English.pdf
• https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Role-Model-Campaign-Poster-2019-Nunatsiavut.pdf

This workshop was the first national consultation with Inuit women in Canada on the issues of protecting their cultural property, traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights. It was also the culmination of several years of research and development. Pauktuutit would like to extend its thanks and appreciation to the many individuals and organizations that made this workshop possible.

Year Published 2001

September 18 – 19, 2018, Infinity Centre, Ottawa

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Final-Pauktuutit-Proceedings-Report.pdf

Year Published 2018

September 18 – 19, 2018, Infinity Centre, Ottawa

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/Final-Key-Recommendations.pdf

Year Published 2018

This special edition of Suvaguuq is for the benefit of all to learn more about what happened to the young children who attended Joseph Bernier School and Turquetil Hall, and to support the former students in the options they may choose as their paths for healing.

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/1996_Suvaguuq.pdf
Year Published 1996

Inuit in Canada are experiencing high rates of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs). While there is limited Inuit-specific statistical information, we know that chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis rates in Inuit regions are high. For example, in Nunavut in 2013, where 85% of the population is Inuit, the chlamydia rate was 11 times that of the rest of Canada, and the gonorrhea rate was 27 times higher. In 2014, the syphilis rate was more than 15 times higher. While current rates of HIV in Inuit communities are low, the risk of being infected increases with the presence of other STBBIs. Community stakeholders fear a rapid rise in HIV unless effective prevention and treatment measures are put in place.

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/IKAJURNIQ_Final_Layout.pdf

Year Published 2018

The project focuses on informing adults about sexual health and to encourage them to educate and influence youth about it and about STBBI testing. The long-term desired outcome is that youth (and adults) will understand what sexual health means and, as a result, they will practice safe sex and seek STBBI testing. While youth are a target audience, it is recognized that adults in the communities need to be supportive of healthy sexual behaviour and be willing to talk about it to create an environment in which young people will see healthy sexuality as the norm.

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/7046_PIW_STBBI_Radio_Station_Handout_Web.pdf

Year Published 2018

The project focuses on informing adults about sexual health and to encourage them to educate and influence youth about it and about STBBI testing. The long-term desired outcome is that youth (and adults) will understand what sexual health means and, as a result, they will practice safe sex and seek STBBI testing. While youth are a target audience, it is recognized that adults in the communities need to be supportive of healthy sexual behaviour and be willing to talk about it to create an environment in which young people will see healthy sexuality as the norm.

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/7046_PIW_STBBI_Guide_Web.pdf

Year Published 2018

This report examines Inuit women’s experiences in five major Canadian cities: Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal. Women’s stories reveal that migration rationale does not usually take the form of a linear and logical sequence of events. Rather, a combination of factors simultaneously pushes them away from their hometowns and pulls them into cities. While some women actively seek better opportunities in southern urban centres, the cost of housing and poor-quality services in the North also push them into migration pathways. Many interviews revealed that living in the city often felt like a “consequence” rather than a personal choice.

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/358996508-Final-Report-UAS-Urban-Research-April-2017.pdf”
Year Published 2017

Each year, Inuit women leave their home community to move to urban centers in southern Canada. The pathway to city life from Inuit Nunangat is different for everyone, but there are many common reasons Inuit women move to the south. Here are some of the top reasons that we heard from Inuit women about why they move to big cities across Canada.

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/UAS_factsheet_push_pull_factors.pdf

Year Published 2018

Women in each city who had escaped violence, often reported low self-esteem and they also tended to escape alone. Inuit women have had a difficult time finding “safe places” when they first arrive in any large city. Because of that, to many women “home is where you can cook in your own kitchen.”

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/UAS_factsheet_safety_violence.pdf
Year Published 2018

Inuit women also gave us social reasons for why they leave their homes in the North; the main reason among them was the repeated cycle of violence in families and relationship breakdowns.

https://pauktuutit.ca/wp-content/uploads/UAS_factsheet_social_relationships.pdf

Year Published 2018