We have members across BC, and acknowledge the multiple First Nations traditional territories where we live, work and play. Our organization is housed in the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, and centered in the islands of the mid-Salish Sea, as such we specifically acknowledge our organizational host, the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, and our hosts of several nations, collectively the SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples, also referred to as the Malchosen, the Lekwungen, the Semiahmoo, and the T’Sou-ke. We work on a way forward that is based on mutual respect and marked by stories of our communities cooperating in this time of Truth and Reconciliation. The O_CHI logo is five rings that overlap each other surrounded by a circle of dots. The five rings represent five marginalized communities, Indigenous/Two-Spirit, trans/nonbinary, Sex Workers, People With Disabilities, and Newcomers. The overlap represents the intersectionality of our communities. The colours represent the uniqueness of each, the white our common struggles The O_CHI dash states that equity is never dependent on identity The Silver center represents our common goal of improving wellness in our community The circle of dots represents our ongoing welcome to all to join us.
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Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Sustain Capacity Tau, Mystery School of trans-ness
Safeguard Everyone Foundations of Wellness
Identify Stakeholders Directories that work
Engage People T’eVine, Our Community Network
Collect all Data Six Jungian Thinking Hats
The Way of the Wand
Create Meaning Vernacular Pattern Languages
Design Improvements Community Projects of Innovation
Evaluate Results Rings of Reflection
Improve Ser vices Frameworks for Change
What is not Systemic Change Investigation? •
Asking how people feel about things that are easily discernable without deeper analysis
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Information without an usable action plan
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Short term deliverables
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A process replicating 70% of other processes
We see systemic change through a strength-based lens that reveals a day when the world sees our community as respected, vital, and important. The dawn of that day is when we see ourselves that way. The path to that dawn is the Way of the Wand, it invites us to: •
Respect the traditions of others
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Do things that are important to others
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Celebrate key community moments and events
SYSTEMIC CHANGE INVESTIGATION IS RESEARCH AS SERVICE, NOT AS AN INTERVENTION SYSTEMIC CHANGE •
Requires a paradigm shift
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Requires a pressing need
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Requires synchronicity to occur
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Requires critical thinking skills
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Requires adaptive learning processes
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Requires decades to accomplish
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Requires reallocation of resources
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Requires revision of existing roles
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Requires trust and commitment
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Requires a self-sustaining framework
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Unlikely to be widely supported
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Has the characteristics of a singularity
“ We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”
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Conforms to principles of Natural Law
Albert Einstein
We acknowledge that as service providers we rely on an intangible Social License rooted in the perceptions and opinions held by our community about services and providers of services. A Social License is an inalienable attribute of any community. As service providers we are called to stewardship of this privilege.
This intangible social license is made tangible through a Community License. To operate without consideration of such a license is to act in a nonconsensual manner. A Community License remains non-permanent because perceptions change as new information is acquired, as is our obligation to maintain our license on an ongoing basis.
Is the promotion of gender wellness through education. Gender wellness is the set of personal strategies and public policies that makes our genders a beneficial part of our lives, families, and communities. Are people (and their families) who are: exploring, considering, living through, or wanting to share their lived experience of physical, social, and personal transition related to gender.
The trans phenomena has two constituent parts, the trans condition, which is innate, and the trans experience, which is persistent. There is no single narrative of the trans phenomena, but there are clusters of importance. Our experience of gender is different because we are trans, we are not trans because our experience of gender is different. The superconscious is an active information source in all environments but it does not communicate in words. The first job of all is to leave behind a better planet than the one we were given at birth.
Identify cohorts with specific needs within the T2NB community Develop community capacity to lead in all aspects of the project Identify service, healthcare, government, and community stakeholders Establish a base line of program metrics usable by all stakeholders Ensure the safety of the project team and those they interact with Design a pilot program to address the needs identified by a specific cohort
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TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF
COMMUNITY PROJECTS OF INNOVATION
Growing the changes needed for healthier communities requires: A convincing argument consisting of a clearly stated need and an effective solution The authority to speak and access to decision makers who will listen A network of persistent communities working together to create improvement for each A strategy for changing beliefs as well as knowledge
Our work is to create the conditions where this growth happens. O_CHI establishes the community capacity needed to ensure that resources directed to our community’s healthcare are allocated equitably and effectively.
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and respected in the north. So, they relented a bit and said, “What do you have in mind?” Douglas said, “Come back in three weeks and I will show you.” The word spread and three weeks later there many, many people at the settler's camp. There they found that Douglas had prepared large piles of many gifts, amongst them very good wool blankets, which like a settler hat might mean the difference between life and death in a cold winter. The people saw this gifting as a potlatch and a way of We acknowledge all the traditional knowledge keepers and making peace. Douglas asked for the right to collect furs and enough story tellers, in particular, Chief David Latass who was there land to feed the people doing the work. He showed the leaders piecthe day of the treaty and Dave Elliot Sr., his great nephew for es of paper with symbols on them. To the settlers these were x's. To making it possible for us to remember and retell this story. the people they were crosses, and evidence that Douglas was swearing by that which was sacred to him. They agreed that the settlers could continue as guests, that reparations for the wrongs had been For thousands of years, tens of thousands, for as long as people have received and there would peace between them. This was to be relived anywhere, people lived on these lands. The people cared for newed through an ongoing process of potlatches and sharing. This these lands and waters, the lands and waters were rich and the peo- was normal to the settlers and something they did in the land they ple thrived. In 1763, King George, the country many settlers came came from on what they called the Quarter Days, the Solstices and from, acknowledged that these people were sovereign nations. Equinoxes. They called it the paying of the rent. A few years later, in 1776, a small band of merchants and farmers But shortly after, both the settlers and the people became very ill. who had come to these territories wrote a letter to the world that The people got infected with a pox, a disease the settlers brought declared that all people have the right of security, freedom and hap- with them and died in the tens of thousands. The settlers got a differpiness and those rights cannot be separated from them. And that the ent illness called Gold Fever, and it clouded their wisdom and darkpurpose of all governments is to secure those rights. It became ened their hearts. In time, the agreement to be here was forgotten known as the Declaration of Independence. or ignored by the settlers. But the people who knew how to rememA generation after that letter, Captain Vancouver sailed this coast and called what he saw the dreary wilderness, broken only by the many towns and villages of the people who lived there since time immemorial. But here, on the south coast of the Island, with its oak meadows and camus fields, it was different and beautiful and he marked so on his maps. That beauty remains today as does the unbroken relationship of the people who lived here before us. Three generations later when settlers returned, they came to these shores, knowing this was a beautiful place. They came for one reason, the fur of marine mammals, an essential ingredient to their way of life. We have lost sight of how important fur was at that time. The furs were stripped and matted to produce a waterproof felt that was fashioned into hats and bootlets. In that time, there was no transit, people walked or rode, there was no safety net, you worked or you starved, and almost all work was done outside. A waterproof hat and boots made it possible to work harder and longer outside, and thus provide for yourself and your family. A hat to those people was like a combination of a pickup truck and a smartphone would be to us today - and in relative terms, just as valuable.
ber a story and did so. From Uncle to Nephew, from mother to daughter, the story has been remembered and retold. It is time for settlers to share the task of remembrance and to pay the rent agreed. It is here, in the islands and the southern mainland, the corrosion of colonialism etched deeper. As such, it is here and to the people who lived here before us we owe the most. We need to acknowledge what we owe.
When we acknowledge territory, we settlers also need to acknowledge our ways in this place. The province that is home to the Trail of Tears. The province where predators like Robert Picton took dozens of our sisters from our lives. The province that is the largest un-treatied land area in North America and one of the largest in the world. This is occupation, and to say otherwise is to deny our history. It is why we return here to the Grove of Souls in Bastion Square, symbol of the place where our paths first crossed. We return to strike a new path into a future of mutual respect anchored by treaty between sovereign peoples. There is no future for either of us without the other, and that is a future we must live in cooperation and respect, not in anger and distrust.
The people who came here came from countries where commoners As trans people, our people have lived amongst all people in all placdid not own land. The elite of that time were not about to start any- es, in all times. Our ancestors were the guests of the people of this thing as radical letting anyone own land. And so there were two peo- place, as we are their guests today. We thank them for their hospitalples, one who had been here forever, responsible for the land and ity today and waters that no one owned, and another, newcomers who worked the welcome the land, owned by the elite, and never owned by commonfolk. they showed After the newcomers had been here for just a short while, there us were problems. They cut down trees in the 10 mile point area that were not theirs to cut down. There were other problems as well. The people who lived there were under the protection of the Wsanec people and so they told them what had happened. That day on this Island there were around 49 settlers and 35,000 First Nations people. The people of these First Nations came down to the settler camp in Beacon Hill and were ready to burn them out and send them back to where they came. That is how you took care of business in that time and place. They met Douglas, the leader of the settlers, who listened to what had happened. He saw what was going to happen next. He asked them, "Give me a chance to settle this another way". Douglas himself was married to a First Nations woman, and her family was known
in the past. We look forward to the day when trans and Indigenous peoples reclaim our historical relationship.
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Safeguard Everyone Foundations of Wellness
OUR VANCOUVER FOUNDATION FUNDING MANDATE Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Engage People T’eVine, Our Community Network
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Engage People T’eVine, Our Community Network
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Collect all Data Six Jungian Thinking Hats
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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The Way of the Wand
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Create Meaning Vernacular Pattern Languages
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Design Improvements Community Projects of Innovation
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Evaluate Results Rings of Reflection
Our Vancouver Foundation Systems Investigation Funding Mandate Tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work Challenge the way things have worked for generations Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture
Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia
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Improve Ser vices Frameworks for Change
