Income Security: A Roadmap for Change
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Indigenous Friendship Centres: Not-<strong>for</strong>-profit corporations located in towns and<br />
cities across the province which are mandated to serve the needs of all Indigenous<br />
people regardless of legal definition. Friendship Centres are the primary service<br />
delivery agents <strong>for</strong> Indigenous people requiring culturally sensitive and culturally<br />
appropriate services in urban communities The Ontario Federation of Indigenous<br />
Friendship Centres is the provincial Indigenous organization representing the<br />
collective interests of member Friendship Centres 129 <br />
Indigenous peoples: For the purposes of this <strong>Roadmap</strong>, Indigenous peoples<br />
refers to First Nations, Métis and Inuit people living in Ontario<br />
Intergenerational Trauma: “A collective complex trauma inflicted on a group of<br />
people who share a specific group identity or affliation—ethnicity, nationality,<br />
and religious affliation. It is the legacy of numerous traumatic events a<br />
community experiences over generations and encompasses the psychological and<br />
social responses to such events” 130 <br />
In the Indigenous context, centuries of colonialism aimed at annihilating<br />
Indigenous people’s cultural identities and ways of life have contributed to severe<br />
collective trauma that is passed through generations 131 <br />
Labour Force Participation Rate: A Statistics Canada measure of the total labour<br />
<strong>for</strong>ce (both those who are employed and unemployed, combined) relative to the<br />
size of the working-age population It is the share of the working-age population<br />
that is working or looking <strong>for</strong> work 132 <br />
129 As defined by the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres. Please see:<br />
http://www.ofifc.org/<br />
130 This definition comes from Teresa Evans-Campbell – please see: http://journals<br />
sagepubcom/doi/abs/101177/0886260507312290<br />
131 Source: Aguiar, W, and Halseth, R (2015) Aboriginal Peoples and Historic<br />
Trauma: the processes of intergenerational transmission<br />
132 For the Statistics Canada definition please see: http://wwwstatcangcca/pub/71<br />
222-x/2008001/sectiona/a-participation-activite-enghtm<br />
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