Range: $31.95-$46.32 per hour

Reports To: Supervisor, Cultural Services

Position Type: Full-Time, Contract 1-year

Location: Toronto, with regular travel throughout the Greater Toronto Area

Position Purpose

The Knowledge Carrier: Women, Children & Families provides culturally grounded, relationship-based support to children, youth, women and families receiving services from Native Child and Family Services of Toronto.

Working closely with Cultural Services and Child & Family Well-Being teams, the Knowledge Carrier will provide cultural guidance, traditional counselling, teachings, ceremony, home and community visits, and individual and family support. Particular attention will be given to children and youth in care, including helping them strengthen and maintain connections to Indigenous identity, culture, family, community and ceremony.

The role will also provide culturally safe support to women and female-identifying community members who request or feel safest receiving cultural and traditional support from a woman Knowledge Carrier.

The Knowledge Carrier will work from an Indigenous, culturally grounded and trauma-informed approach that recognizes the importance of relationship, kinship, identity, community, ceremony and connection to the land.

Key Responsibilities

Children in Care & Family Support

- Provide regular cultural support to children and youth in care throughout Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.
- Conduct home and community visits, independently or alongside Child & Family Well-Being staff, as appropriate.
- Build consistent,



trusting relationships with children and youth and help strengthen their connection to Indigenous identity, culture and community.
- Provide age-appropriate cultural teachings, traditional knowledge and opportunities for cultural participation.
- Support children and youth in accessing ceremony, medicines, cultural programming, Elders, Healers and other Knowledge Carriers where appropriate.
- Support children and families during significant transitions, including placement changes, reunification, family meetings and other key life events.
- Work collaboratively with Child & Family Well-Being teams while maintaining the distinct cultural role and responsibilities of the Knowledge Carrier.
- Advocate for culturally meaningful approaches to supporting Indigenous children, youth and families.

Women-Centred Cultural Support

- Provide one-to-one traditional and cultural counselling to women and female-identifying community members seeking culturally grounded support.
- Create culturally safe opportunities for community members who feel more comfortable receiving cultural support from a woman Knowledge Carrier.
- Provide teachings and support related to women's roles, life stages, family, parenting, relationships, identity, healing and wellness, according to the Knowledge Carrier's own cultural knowledge and teachings.




- Support women in accessing ceremony, medicines, Elders, Healers and other appropriate cultural resources.
- Facilitate or support women's cultural programming, circles, ceremonies and gatherings as appropriate.

Cultural & Ceremonial Responsibilities

- Share Indigenous cultural knowledge, teachings and practices in accordance with the Knowledge Carrier's own community teachings, protocols and responsibilities.
- Provide or support ceremony within the individual's demonstrated knowledge, training and cultural authority.
- Support community members with traditional medicines and cultural practices where appropriate.
- Participate in seasonal ceremonies, community gatherings, cultural programming and agency events.
- Work respectfully alongside Elders, Healers, Knowledge Carriers and cultural practitioners from diverse Indigenous Nations and traditions.
- Recognize the diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures and avoid presenting any one Nation's teachings or practices as representative of all Indigenous peoples.
- Maintain appropriate cultural protocols, boundaries and confidentiality.

Collaboration & Agency Support

- Work closely with the Supervisor of Cultural Services and other members of the Cultural Services team.
- Collaborate with Child & Family Well-Being staff and other agency programs to identify cultural needs and appropriate supports for children and families.
- Participate in case consultations, planning meetings, circles or OTCs where cultural support or perspective is requested.
- Help staff understand cultural consideratio

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