Session Title: Staff support

Person who proposed the topic: Marlene Heavy Shields

Participants (pass around this sheet if you like):

Main point we discussed (try to be brief and make it understandable to others):

1. No orientation / layed back / unprofessional
2. No grievances
3. no on to talk to
4. 10 – 1 ratio
5. puppet board
6. no support when it comes to planning
7. expand the centres / no support
8. always be mediator
9. let the staff plan it and they did the planning and it was not carried out
10. we don’t have happy proactive workers
11. feel like one person is doing everything / taking on big responsibilities
12. one person always ruffling feathers
13. staff are stressed
14. no special needs staff
15. won’t let us know what our budget is / never enough money
16. can’t treat people like slaves
17. lack of respect for elders
18. management is losing focus
19. lack of communication
20. Director has no experience in communication
21. No food in budgets
22. Power and control / running into a brick wall

Next steps we can do together (including who, what and when, if appropriate):

1. Health Canada to help us
2. Document everything
3. Stand up for staff
4. Unionize (if off reserve) if on-reserve / use the same system

1. Getting together forming a system / staff development
2. have workshop / people to media – non-native / strategies sharing circles
3. elders – if there is a will there is a way