The Value and Potential of Natural Supports in Calgary Communities

The Value and Potential of Natural Supports in Calgary Communities Catamount Fellow: Mykhailo Kozhukhar Community Partners: Susan Brooke, Heather Hayes (United Way Calgary) Faculty Mentor: Janet Miller, PhD April 2022 Background “The value of wholeness speaks to the totality of creation, the group as opposed to the individual, the forest as opposed to the individual trees. [...] Being connected to Natural Supports Leadership Table and members of the natural supports in our local communities might have Council of Champions’ Natural Supports Stream hope to lessened the impact of the pandemic. [...] Barriers to Natural Supports Use of Resources • Build on the work of the Alberta’s Natural Supports Leadership Table and use successful natural supports campaigns (like Social Snacking) to guide future programming (Connections First, 2021). [...] campaigns or programs • Ensure that the natural that use natural supports, supports movement and consider how they is aligned with the could be scaled up or recommendations of the used to model the way Truth and Reconciliation to further success. [...] • Introduce new campaigns Decolonizing the concept based on the knowledge of “help” will promote and plans of the natural assistance by all people, supports leadership tables.