Ka Ni Kanichihk Newsletter – March 2024
March 6, 2024
We just released the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter for March, sharing highlights from Ka Ni Kanichihk since December! You can read it here...
Category: Newsletter
Capital Expansion Update – March 2024
February 27, 2024
If you happen to drive by and see all the construction site activity at 455 McDermot Ave., you are witnessing the uprising of the building expansion project at the home of Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc. Construction got underway in the summer/fall of 2023 with a lot of people coming together to ensure the project’s success. The warm winter weather in January/February 2024 was also a big help in keeping our build project schedule moving forward through traditionally cold winter months...
New SA & IPV Crisis Response Program Launches in Manitoba
February 27, 2024
JANUARY 16, 2024 - Together, Ka Ni Kanichihk, Klinic Community Health, and the Province of Manitoba have launched the Sexual Assault & Intimate Partner Violence Crisis Response Program. Manitobans aged 14 and older can now access medical care from a trauma-informed forensic nurse following an experience of sexual assault or intimate partner violence at Ka Ni Kanichihk (18 and older) and Klinic, in addition to the organizations’ wrap-around care and support services...
St. John’s High School Students Make Generous Donation to Medicine Bear Counselling
February 27, 2024
We would like to give a BIG thank you to Amy Wilkinson's Grade 10 Geography Class from St. John's High School! The students planned, organized, promoted, and operated a second-hand holiday store in their school called 'Frosty Finds'. Their goal was providing a sustainable, affordable holiday shopping option for students while highlighting problems with the consumption and disposal of products made from natural resources...
23rd Annual Keeping the Fires Burning
February 27, 2024
Ka Ni Kanichihk is excited to invite you to join us at the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg on Thursday, June 20, 2024, to mark 23 years of celebrating Indigenous resilience, relationship and reconciliation. Funds raised through Keeping the Fires Burning provide transformative, culturally safe services and programs. They also support research and the integration of best practices in Indigenous-led community leadership. These are all critical elements in the restoration and reclamation of our positive and powerful cultural identity...
SICD Program prepares for Grad Ceremony in June
February 27, 2024
Program Spotlight & Impact Story Our Social Innovation & Community Development (SICD) program is a 10-month program delivered on-site, providing accreditation from Red River College in partnership with the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resources (Neeginan Institute of Technology). Participants study various courses such as Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Indigenous Perspectives on Leadership Structures, Financial Literacy, …