Participate in our workshops aimed at empowering community engagement and access to vital resources. 

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Acts of Lateral Kindness

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WOKE: We organize knowledge empowerment

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Knowledge is provided through a critical race and trauma informed approach inclusive of equity based practices to support community members in accessing resources. Serves males, families, and Muslim persons who experience inequitable social conditions and seek to improve their lives through solution focused approaches to problem solving. Empowering joy by reducing stress and conflict in the home by supporting health, well-being and social inclusion.

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Specific areas of responsiveness and workshops:

• Self-care and support services for Muslim males

• Skill development in areas of self-regulation

• Improving workplace conditions to promote rest, leisure and relaxation and reducing time poverty 

  •  Reducing the impact of patronization in the workforce to make workplaces more family friendly and women centric to improve employment outcomes for racialized persons 

  • Promoting equitable labour division at work to reduce burnout and improve presenteeism for racialized women 

  • Providing time off to promote joyful quality time with family ​​

  • Advocacy for safer workplace practices that support employee well-being 

• Racism and Islamophobia 

• Reproductive health and rights

• Systems of oppression and challenging harm/damage based narratives utilizing strengths based approaches

• Supporting environmental equity

  • No more smoke​

  • The impact of second and third hand smoke in low income and high pollution settings

  • The impact of third hand smoke on familial well-being, quality of life and time at home

• Racialized/Muslim women's health issues

• Structural racism 

• Systemic violence 

• Triple shifts of domestic labour, at work, at home, and the chronic stress of survival cleaning that impacts well-being. 

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Appreciating racialized/marginalized/Muslim individual's labour and contributions. Reducing erasure, adversity and promoting positive community interactions. Reducing Islamophobia, racism, structural inequities, systemic violence, and addressing the root causes of 

trauma, and childhood adversity. Addressing social determinants of health and well-being and supporting family unity, harmony and

cohesion.

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Understanding the economic, systemic and structural challenges faced by Muslim/racialized women and their impact on family structures