The Community Hub
From: Beyond Shelters
$1.60
Cora Gajari, Executive Director of Carmichael Outreach Inc. in Regina, Saskatchewan, draws on her own experience as an Indigenous woman who has faced violence and marginalization, discusses the importance of a shelter both meeting the people it serves on their own terms and understanding their journeys into and dreams for exiting homelessness, and describes the essential feature of a successful shelter being its ability to address the power imbalance between its clients and the government agencies that too often exclude them from accessing the basic services necessary to get out and stay out of homelessness.
Contributors
Cora Gajari
Cora Gajari has been working in community in the area of poverty and homelessness in Regina for approximately ten years. Prior to that she worked for the provincial government as a policy analyst in the areas of justice and Aboriginal employment development. She has a BA Honours and Master’s of Arts degree in Sociology with a focus on the application of social theories to racism, Indigenous peoples and social systems. She is the mother of seven and grandmother of six, and is a member of the Inuvialuit of the Inuvik region.
