Land Justice
We understand the importance of land justice – which includes climate change, decolonizing our view of land and reconnection to land. We also acknowledge that as a social service organization we have traditionally put people before the land. While we are in the early stages of our journey, we recognize the urgent need to address climate change’s impact on the land, water, plants, creatures and people.
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Reconnecting to the Land
We have learned that we must put the land first. If we want to care for people, we know that if we love the land, the land will love us all back. We commit to a culture that fosters connection to the land through all our work.
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Embracing Indigenous
Worldviews
The land isn’t just a backdrop for our work but an active participant. We give voice to the land because it holds the stories of generations, carries the weight of past injustices and offers nurturing to those who need it, now and for generations to come.
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Investing in Education
Engagement, awareness and education are key to organizational land justice in action. As a collective we are committed to sharing our evolving lessons, shaped by our unique neighbourhoods to inform a strong, collective approach to this work.
01 Land Justice Stewardship Team
Develop a working group with representation from across the neighbourhood houses, camp and central services. This group will:
Explore
Explore our collective responsibility to the land and will advocate for measures to ensure its resilience and future. (i.e. programs, procurement, investments, etc.)
Deepen
Continue the work to deepen our understanding around “land ownership” and to shift our philosophy – specifically continue the work of Land Back Rountables, conversations and movement toward action.
Refine
Review/refine the draft Land Justice Plan and make recommendations for its implementation. The plan will be informed by what’s already happening around the organization and inspired by climate and Indigenous leaders within our communities.
Measure
Explore how we measure our impact.
02 Share Learnings
The Land Justice Stewardship Team will share their evolving lessons and opportunities through organizational events, communication with their own teams, as well as ongoing dialogue with the Senior Leadership Team and Board.
Support
The Team will support all leadership and teams to become stewards of land justice in our neighbourhood houses, camp, central services and communities.
03 Give the Voice of the Land
Members of the Land Justice Stewardship Team will represent the land in important conversations, particularly where decisions
are being made.
04 Ethical Procurement Policy
Operations Leads and Communications Working Group to develop an awareness and change management program to support the adoption of ANHBC’s Ethical Procurement Policy.
Our transformation journey is a living, dynamic process that will continually evolve with time, experience, learning and circumstance.
Our Strategic Framework embodies this, acknowledging the continuous path of growth, adaptation and renewal.
To ensure that strategic transformation is a living reality, we will:
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Taking these steps, we will create an organizational environment where the Living Process of Transformation becomes ingrained in our culture and operations, driving relevant and sustained change.
The journey of collective Strategic Transformation across ANHBC began in the spring and summer months of 2021, and there are many people to thank and recognize who stewarded this unconventional path.
Beginning with Ta7talíya Nahanee and Chris Corrigan who called on us to do things differently, and approach the work through the lens of transformation. With them we found a path forward that fed our values and intentions in ways that exceeded our imaginations.
The Core Transformation Team who bravely came together at the beginning for this work, approached and upheld the process with the highest regard and rippled the work of transformation and decolonizing out into their neighbourhood houses, teams and communities.
The Strategic Planning Committee who led, guided and stewarded the process developing a new strategic plan. Together they supported each other to do things differently and approach transformation in a non-linear way. They listened deeply to the voices that emerged since 2021, and ensured that what was heard guided the work.
To those who brought the Strategic Framework to life through art, design and writing.
To the entire ANHBC Collective – the teams, volunteers, participants, board members, neighbours and many Indigenous teachers who courageously and openly participated in our many engagement sessions and conversations. Your words, drawings and sticky-notes have and will continue to guide our collective transformation.