MNO program to provide support for Métis victims

The Métis Nation of Ontario has added a new program. The goal of Victim Services is to expand the range and variety of culturally relevant victim services available to Métis women and children in Ontario. Based on consultations, the program is a support system to be integrated with mainstream victim services programs in order to help the understanding of who Métis people are and the underlying issues and histories that surround them. The new program is founded on 10 principles: the human right to safety, gender equality, cultural responses, personal accountability, integrated approach, coordinated response, voices of women, prevention, evaluation and accountability. “We look forward to contributing further and prioritizing direction in addressing violence against Métis women provincially,” said MNO Vice-Chair and Women’s Secretariat of the Métis Nation of Ontario spokesperson Sharon McBride, in a news release.