Bullying Prevention
Indigenous youth face a disproportionately high risk of bullying, driven by systemic inequality and cultural marginalization. Our Live Stage Performance is built specifically to surface this — and to give students the tools to speak up or step in.
Conflict Resolution & Anti-Racism
Racism often shows up in quiet, unspoken ways that limit access to opportunity. Our workshops give students language for naming it and finding common ground.
Substance Use & Addiction
Indigenous youth are up to five times more likely to use drugs or alcohol than their non-Indigenous peers. Our Live Stage Performance stops at the moment of decision — the peer pressure, the shame, the choice — and opens it up for real discussion rather than a scripted anti-drug message.
TED NOTE: If FNMI wants to include a fuller addiction-education curriculum on the site, recommend original content reviewed by a health professional rather than the previously pasted general opioid-epidemic material, most of which was U.S.-sourced (CDC/FDA statistics) and not Canada- or Indigenous-specific. For overdose response, link directly to Health Canada’s naloxone and opioid-response resources rather than reproducing instructions on-site.
Family Values & Identity
For Indigenous peoples, family and language carry more than history — they carry the knowledge systems that connect us to the land and to each other. Reclaiming both is central to everything we do.
Family Violence
Police-reported crime rates in majority-Indigenous communities remain significantly higher than the national average. Our programming opens space for students to talk about what they’re experiencing at home, safely.
Healthy Living
Indigenous concepts of health extend to the land itself — humans as part of an extended ecological family, not separate from it. Our programming connects wellbeing to that relationship.
Abuse & Exploitation
Indigenous people are three times more likely to be victims of violent crime than non-Indigenous Canadians. Our workshops help students recognize the signs of abuse and know where to turn.
Suicide Prevention
Suicide rates among First Nations people are roughly three times higher than among non-Indigenous Canadians. Our programming is designed to open conversation before a crisis, not just respond after one.
EDITOR NOTE: For any page discussing suicide, include a visible crisis-line link (e.g., Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566, or Hope for Wellness: 1-855-242-3310) rather than statistics alone.
National Day for Truth & Reconciliation — September 30
This day honors residential school survivors and the children who never came home. FNMI is committed to Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action #66: delivering youth programming on reconciliation and building a national network to share information and best practices.
Orange Shirt Day — September 30
An Indigenous-led day honoring residential school survivors, inspired by Phyllis Webstad’s story of having her orange shirt taken from her on her first day of school. We encourage everyone to wear orange.
National Indigenous Peoples Day — June 21
A day for all Canadians to recognize the heritage, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, marked on the summer solstice.