Visioning Our Healing

While there is an abundance of research on Indigenous healing in the context of residential schools and intergenerational trauma in Canada, very little has been written specifically about community-based sexual assault services providing Indigenous-specific supports for survivors of sexual assault. "Visioning our Healing" begins to remedy this gap through a research partnership with one of the few mainstream sexual assault centers (SAC) in northern Ontario that provides culturally specific supports to Indigenous women, men, and Two-Spirit people. Using photo voice and other forms of storying with Indigenous clients of the SAC, "Visioning our Healing" provides thematic analysis of Indigenous pathways to healing and discusses how the SAC might continue to develop its Indigenous support services. Our report identifies key strengths, promising practices, and organizational challenges in decolonizing community and social services and funding.