Community Safety Toolkit
We have developed a Community Safety Toolkit that builds on strengths and skills within Indigenous communities along the Highway of Tears and supports solutions for identifying risks and creating safety.
Community Safety Toolkit
The original Highway of Tears Community Safety Toolkit included fourteen resources to promote community safety and increase education and awareness in many areas, including violence against women, personal safety, addiction, and community violence. The Toolkit also included specific resources targeted at empowering men to stand up against violence.
Community Safety Training has occurred in several communities along the Highway of Tears. Based on the feedback we gathered from evaluations of Indigenous attendees and trainers at community safety planning sessions, we have been revising the Community Safety Toolkit into a national resource.
Our revised National Community Safety Toolkit will be shared in Indigenous communities across Canada in person, as well as on our website called Our Spirit, which will be launched soon. Stay tuned for more details.
This website’s purpose is to educate the public about our work. We connect with families of murdered and missing people along the Highway of Tears, participate in media events, and continue to attend and hold awareness and memorial vigils, walks and ceremonies. We also participate in other work towards ending violence towards Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears and across Canada.
Development of the Highway of Tears Community Safety Toolkit was made possible through a generous contribution from the Civil Forfeiture Office in partnership with the Victims Services and Crime Prevention Division of the Ministry of Justice.
A picture of all of the resources included in the Community Safety Toolkit.