Our Vision:
Through our research and Centre activities, we cultivate and connect with communities where all families, livelihoods, and living environments flourish.
Our Work:
Anticipating and responding to the changing needs of families, livelihoods, and living environments through research, teaching, and knowledge sharing, which include policy-relevant and community engaged activities.
Our Values
In addition to the values identified in the 2017 College of Social and Applied Human Sciences’ Strategic Plan, the Centre values:
- Recognizing the persistent and unequal effects of colonization on Indigenous peoples and all living in North America
- Pursuing reconciliation and decolonization through our works
- Situating our interdisciplinary research within feminist, Indigenous, disabled, queer, critical race, and intersectional scholarship and community work, among others
- Engaging in research that centres lives and communities
- Modelling and strengthening equitable, respectful and reciprocal relationships near and far
- Advancing opportunities for students and interested communities to grow, share and collaborate
- Supporting the well-being of our members
- Reflecting on where we have been and where we want to go together
- Celebrating our collective successes
Read our full Strategic Plan 2017-2022.