Finding Our Power Together is a Indigenous non-profit organization working to support Indigenous youth across Turtle Island to gain access to the resources they seek to achieve their self-determined goals. We work as an interdisciplinary team of Indigenous and allied individuals to develop and facilitate mental health and educational programming to foster positive self-identity and leadership capacities in Indigenous young people to end preventable death and suicide in Indigenous communities. 

Our Goals 

We wish to support Indigenous young people to realize their own priorities and goals and to gain access to various supports they may benefit from. This means brokering relationships to mental health and educational service providers, fundraising for community programming or facilities, or providing emergency support. 

Our ultimate goal is to end preventable youth suicide in First Nations communities and support our young people to thrive. 

Our History 

Finding Our Power Together began as a community based initiative in Nibinamik First Nation in 2016. During this time, many young people had attempted or completed suicide. Youth in Nibinamik sought to support their own people and worked with members of Ryerson university to film a documentary video, sharing their experiences of systemic discrimination and colonialism. More than that though, they shared their messages of hope and support for the young people in their community and across Turtle Island. 

This film was premiered at a fundraising event in 2017 at Ryerson University in Toronto which brought together nearly 400 Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies to share in collective solidarity. We have since grown to support remote First Nations respond to the crises that affect their young people.