The Dauphin Friendship Centre hosted the Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres quarterly meeting this past weekend.
David Grey, the Provincial President, says these meetings try to advance the situation for friendship centres.
This is an opportunity for each centre to bring what they do specifically and share their successes.
“Every centre has unique programming and that’s based on the funding that’s available, the need that’s available in those communities and it’s based on the ability of those centres to be able to deliver those. Because all of us have a limited budget. And so centres have to choose what those things are priorities, and Dauphin obviously has done a good job of choosing priorities for its centre, its population.”
Grey gave the example of Dauphin having the lunch program and the way our centre presents educational programs.
“We have had a consistent structure of quarterly meetings. That is, all of the centres in Manitoba get together every three months, meet and discuss those issues and try to advance the situation for friendship centres whose goals university are to improve the conditions for the urban indigenous community.”
Federal and provincial funding was a topic for Friendship Centres across the province.
“A new model for the delivery of funding, because the Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres, receives funding from the provincial government and from the federal government and then distribute it. We’re going to be talking about a new model for the allocation of those recourses and a new model for the assessment of how they’re expended. So that we become much more attuned to measuring the advances that are being made and the deliverables that are being achieved by each centre.”
There are 10 friendship centres in the province.
