woven identities Program

We provide identity-affirming crisis navigation and referrals that recognize the unique challenges faced by Two-Spirit, trans, and LGBTQ+ Indigenous youth. Our team offers personalized safety planning, mental health crisis response, and connection to affirming legal, housing, and medical services.

Referrals are made through a lens of cultural safety and belonging, ensuring each youth is supported in environments that honor their gender, sexuality, and Indigenous identity.

Monthly LGBTQ2S+ Talking Circles are co-designed and facilitated by Indigenous youth, traditional healers, and cultural leaders. Circles are supported by an Indigenous clinician and LGBTQ2S+ cultural leader, ensuring safety, grounding, and trauma-informed care throughout.

These circles are brave, affirming spaces for shared reflection, storytelling, traditional craft-making and community connection — restoring kinship, belonging, and the spiritual balance that sustains collective healing.

We provide mentorship and hands-on training for youth to become Peer Facilitators in mental health and wellness, gaining skills in Indigenous facilitation, trauma-informed support, evaluation, and community organizing. Grounded in traditional teachings of reciprocity and relational balance, this training emphasizes healing while holding space for others. Youth learn to facilitate circles, listen deeply, and guide peers, they also strengthen their own emotional awareness, confidence, and spiritual connection. 

Ceremony and traditional practices led by trusted Indigenous practitioners. These ancestral offerings invite individuals to release, cleanse, and reconnect with Spirit, grounding emotional, physical, and spiritual healing in Indigenous cosmology and kinship.

This adapted retreat centers identity and belonging in a sacred relationship with the land and water. Rooted in the principle of reciprocal healing, youth are reminded that the land and our bodies are reflections of one another —when we heal ourselves, we heal the land. Through ceremony, movement, and connection to the natural world, youth experience how balance and renewal flow both ways: the Earth restoring us as we restore her.

A two-day immersive digital storytelling workshop centering creative expression as healing. Youth learn video production, narrative writing, and digital organizing alongside Indigenous artists and mentors. The experience culminates in a youth-led multimedia campaign that challenges stigma, celebrates identity, and uplifts stories of pride, belonging, and sovereignty.