The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is a National Indigenous Organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people in Canada, inclusive of First Nations on and off reserve, status and non-status, disenfranchised, Métis and Inuit. The organization was founded in 1974 on the collective goal to enhance, promote and foster the social, economic, cultural and political well-being of Indigenous women within their respective communities.
This website is part of a larger NWAC project, funded by Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program, titled A Community-Informed Approach to Cannabis Public Health Education and Awareness. Through this project, NWAC engaged urban, rural and remote Indigenous communities, encompassing First Nations, Inuit and Métis to identify current awareness and priorities of Indigenous women and gender-diverse people around cannabis. This was synthesised to develop public health education resources that address their needs.
The goal of these resources are that they are culturally safe, gender based, trauma informed and will help to develop increased literacy needed to make informed decisions about cannabis use that best suit their circumstances (both as an individual and within a community context). We developed these website sections, interactive tools and downloadable resources to reflect the requests of our participants and support their needs and visions for culturally safe cannabis education.
