💡 Our 2024 Impact Report is out! ➡️ Read about last year's highlights, including: 👉 The successful completion of the second phase of SeeChange's pilot project with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on community-centered humanitarian health responses, with the development and launch of a #CommunityFirst framework and practical tools 👉Our pilot project with #Inuit youth and our ongoing advocacy on #TB in #Nunavut and healing for Inuit TB sanatorium survivors ➡️https://lnkd.in/gFx8z-FE
SeeChange Initiative
Non-profit Organizations
Montreal, Quebec 1,722 followers
CommunityFirst. Humanitarian Action Reimagined.
About us
Founded in 2018, SeeChange Initiative is a non-profit organization that supports communities to create innovative and empowering solutions to address their health and social challenges. SeeChange began with an intention to start a dialogue in order to understand how to better support community-led approaches to the ongoing tuberculosis (TB) crisis affecting Inuit in the Canadian Arctic. Upon first hearing of the TB crisis in Nunavut, Executive Director, Rachel Kiddell-Monroe felt compelled to act. Rachel wanted to find ways to support Inuit efforts to tackle TB. As she puts it, “Experience has shown me that sustainable and effective solutions need the community to lead from the outset.” SeeChange’s ethos is rooted in this founding project, Ikuma tunilavut (We Can Pass the Flame/, ᐃᑯᒪ ᑐᓂᔪᓐᓇᖅᑕᕗᑦ), an Inuit-specific CommunityFirst response to TB in Clyde River, Nunavut. Anchored in strong partnership with Ilisaqsivik Society, SeeChange’s CommunityFirst approach was co-created as a methodology that truly recognizes and believes in the power of communities to be their own agents of change. In May 2020, SeeChange Initiative and Ilisaqsivik Society developed the CommunityFirst COVID-19 Roadmap in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. Created in partnership with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Médicos Sin Fronteras in Latin America, the Roadmap is a planning tool to help at-risk and isolated communities Organize, Prepare, Respond, and Recover. The Roadmap website is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Inuktitut. Like our name, we want to see change. Together with our partners, SeeChange will continue to co-create a world of thriving, well communities.
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 2-10 employees
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- Montreal, Quebec
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2018
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Montreal, Quebec H4X 1K8, CA
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Clyde River, Nunavut, CA
Employees at SeeChange Initiative
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Carol Devine
Climate and health equity, research, speaking, writing. Polar art & science, biodiversity & ocean optimist. COO SeeChange Initiative. International…
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Claudia Blume
Communications Professional
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Sumeet Sodhi-Helou
Associate Professor at University of Toronto
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Jessica Farber
Masters of Global Health candidate at ISGlobal, University of Barcelona | Program Manager, MSF CommunityFirst TIC at SeeChange Initiative
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Nunavut has the highest rate of child poverty and the highest rate of food insecurity of any Canadian province or territory. This is shocking: In 2022, around 80 per cent of Indigenous children aged between one and 14 in Nunavut lived in households experiencing food insecurity. #Inuit #Nunavut https://lnkd.in/gpQ-EZTn
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#ClimateChange has an impact on both the physical and mental health among #Indigenous communities in the #Arctic, while amplifying health inequities. These impacts encompass weather-related accidents, infectious diseases, food insecurity, ecological grief, and eco-anxiety. "The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) explicitly states that Indigenous peoples have the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Achieving this UNDRIP standard requires expanding beyond Western biomedicine and social determinants of health as intervention frameworks because these frameworks, while impacting up to 20 percent and 80 percent of health outcomes respectively, are circumscribed by structural determinants of health. The right to health is a foundation for advancing health with justice and doing so requires structural intervention by leveraging legal determinants of health." https://lnkd.in/gMkqkvbG
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❓ What are some of the biggest challenges for #Inuit youth in #Nunavut? ❓What is the lingering impact of intergenerational trauma? ❓What are some ways for young people to cope and thrive? We talked about these and other issues with young Inuit artist Christopher Idlout during ArcticNet's Arctic Change Conference in Ottawa in December, where he and other Inuit youth participated in a townhall session that was co-hosted by SeeChange Initiative and the Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United Kingdom Arctic Research Programme(CINUK). 📺 Watch the performance of Christopher Idlout and John Tatty at the ArcticNet conference, where they presented their song 'See Change'. https://lnkd.in/gRzZ94sN https://lnkd.in/gUfn8mwg
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💡 #Humanitarian organizations need to change. What we are doing now clearly isn't working," says SeeChange Initiative's founder and ED Rachel Kiddell-Monroe in The Development Hub's podcast on #decolonizing development. 📺 Watch the interview about #community-centered approaches to #humanitarian work on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gBMQPkxS 📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g6YvJ-kH
"#Humanitarian organisations need to change. What we are doing now clearly isn't working." Rachel Kiddell-Monroe says in today's podcast episode. Rachel Kiddell-Monroe talks about centring communities and co-creating health solutions. Her organisation (See Change Institute) works with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) developing new models to humanitarian action in the Majority World and with #Inuit communities and #FirstNation peoples in the #Canadian #Arctic. Dr. Nompilo Ndlovu (Ph.D) and Kate Bird are both horrified by Rachel Kiddell-Monroe's description of on-going, present day, #colonialism in #Canada and the costs to the #indigenous (#FirstNation, #Inuit) communities, in terms of their physical and #MentalHealth and massive inequalities in #health, #education and #wellbeing outcomes. #CommunityDevelopment can help flip this, with communities empowered to design and implement their own solutions. This can work just as well in #humanitarian action as in long-term (non-emergency) development work - with #FirstResponders commonly being from the affected community, in any case. #shiftthepower, #firstnation, #inuit, #canada, #settlercolony, #decolonise, #decolonize, #localize, #localise, Edgar Villanueva, #health, #inequality, #marginalisation, #exclusion, #coloniality, #eurocentric, #power, #ALNAP, #HPG, Sara Pantuliano
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The government of #Nunavut is calling for proposals on suicide prevention initiatives and alcohol and drug prevention funding programs, to address the #MentalHealth crisis the territory is facing. https://lnkd.in/gQJZ88g3
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#JobAlert ‼️ Only a few days left to apply! SeeChange is looking for a part-time, #Iqaluit-based program assistant (4-month contract) to support an intergenerational healing journey of #Inuit TB sanatorium survivors and youth to Hamilton, Ontario. Click here for more information and how to apply: https://lnkd.in/epeYiwYy
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SeeChange Initiative reposted this
My 2025 letter to the readers of The New Humanitarian. "Humanitarians succeed when they give greater power and agency to those affected by oppression and crises. They fail when they become complicit, putting the system, funding, politics, or a misguided Eurocentric view of the world above the people they serve." https://lnkd.in/edbYYRRX
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SeeChange Initiative reposted this
I am hiring! Our all-Indigenous and remote team (across Canada) needs a Manager, Executive Office and Governance. If you know a First Nation, Metis, or Inuit person job seeker who is highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented, with an understanding of governance and administrative support, has an understanding of the philanthropic or non-profit sector, and a keen ability to manage communications and logistics, please share this opportunity with them. This role reports to IPRF’s Chief Executive Officer (that's me). Compensation is between $70,000 and $95,000 plus group benefits and 3 weeks of vacation. This posting will be up until the vacancy is filled but I would like to offer the first interviews starting mid-January. Please send applications to info@iprfund.ca using the job title and role as the subject line. Miigwech! #Hiring #Indigenous #talent #recruitment #philanthropy #ExecutiveAssistance #Governance #BoardEngagement
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The Qulliit Nunavut Status of Women Council reports that #Nunavut has the highest rate of gender-based violence reported by women in Canada, and women in Nunavut are the victims of violent crime, including sexual assault, at a rate 12 to 13 times higher than women in Canada as a whole. At an event in Iqaluit, youth demanded an end to gender-based violence #16Days campaign, #HearMeToo #NoExcuse https://lnkd.in/g5WNTT-f