Projects
Sask Stories
Sask Stories was a community-driven website and resource development project designed to honour and connect the many programs, projects and initiatives delivered across Saskatchewan to reduce the burdens of HIV and HCV within the province. The aim was to build a database of published and unpublished HIV and HCV programs, projects and initiatives to facilitate knowledge exchange, collaborations and partnerships. Sask Stories also aimed to support community to create evidence-based PPIs and related programming and research proposals.
Sask Stories created a series of learning modules that cover and highlight wise and promising practices among HIV and HCV initiatives throughout the provinces, like the Know Your Status program, for example. The learning modules cover the key areas of prevention, testing and linkage to care and could also act as a road map for future program development in Saskatchewan.
Modules also cover Indigenous ways of knowing and being, as well as guidance to utilizing the resources on the Sask Stories website and what could be accomplished with the information, such as writing grant proposals.
Sask Stories was a five-year project funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Community Action Fund in the amount of $863,000.
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Most of our team lives and works on Treaty 6 territory and the Homeland of the Métis. The original peoples of these lands are the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and Métis. Others are based in Vancouver, on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We encourage everyone, wherever they are, to learn about the Indigenous people of the lands on which they live and work. We seek to become engaged allies together. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation, we respect the self-determination of First Nations, Métis and Inuit – in their cultures, languages and their pursuit of wellness.
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