Cultural Communities and Community Service Providers Invitation

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Cultural Communities and Community Service Providers Initiative: An Invitation

The Coalition of Cultural Communities for Families Inc., in partnership with Mediation Services, invites your participation in the Cultural Community and Community Service Providers Engagement initiative. This initiative is a series of conversations that will bring together folks representing various cultural communities and representatives from various community service providers. Our hope is to enhance understanding and strengthen services delivered to cultural members.

As both CMCCF and Mediation Services are committed to contributing to healthy communities and healthy families, we recognize that issues related to social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion must be talked about and action taken in order to break down barriers and reduce racism, hatred, and discrimination. In doing so, we will also strengthen community health and overall wellbeing.

Our Roadmap

We are planning a series of three engagements over the next few months. The first of these will be for cultural community members only while the second will be for community service provider organizations. The third and final engagement will bring together both cultural community members and community service provider organizations in dialogue and mutual learning.

Our Goals for these Engagements:

1. For cultural communities to experience community services in a way that better meets their needs.

2. For service organizations to enter into partnerships with cultural communities in order to further strengthen and co-create the services delivered to families. It is our hope that services are delivered in both a culturally and psychologically safe manner.

3. To break down barriers (including racism and discrimination) that many cultural community members experience in attempting to access and receive the services that they need.

The first in this series of engagement dialogues will be for cultural community members only:

Date: February 16, 2023
Time: 6:00 – 8:30 pm. (Dinner will be served)
Location: Mediation Services, 1200 Portage Avenue (3rd floor)

We are inviting you, as a cultural community member to participate in a process, starting with cultural communities, to understand who communities rely on in terms of services from non-profit organizations, which type of organizations do you look to for services and what expectations do you have for these services.

As space is limited, please register as soon as possible!

Register here

Thank you for your interest in strengthening cultural communities!
We look forward to your participation!

More information about these engagements and about CMCCF and Mediation Services can be found below.

More Information

To learn more about our Intercultural and Intergenerational Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Project, go to our J.E.D.I. Initiative landing page here.

To get involved with this or any of our other projects, activities and initiatives, fill out our contact form here or email us at hello@cmccfamilies.ca

Our J.E.D.I. Initiative, the Intercultural and Intergenerational Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Project, is funded by:

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A Message to Our Community

After years of dedicated leadership, our Director Martin will be stepping down as CMCCF enters an exciting new chapter. We are deeply grateful for everything he has brought to the Coalition of Manitoba Cultural Communities for Families, and we look forward to what lies ahead together.

As we navigate this transition, we welcome your questions, thoughts, and support. For any inquiries, please reach out to Florence at floxy166@yahoo.ca — she will be happy to hear from you.

Thank you for being part of our community.

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The Purpose of These Peace-First: CollaborationNet Pages These pages exist to share what we have learned. Over the past year, Peace-First: CollaborationNet has operated as a time-limited demonstration initiative, which is a space to test ideas, host conversations, and discover what might grow when peace is placed at the center. Conversations took root in informal Peace-First Hubs across Winnipeg, Thompson, Brandon, and Portage la Prairie, with related gatherings in Vancouver and Toronto. Toronto now helps convene national roundtable conversations, linking local dialogue with a broader Canadian exchange. What began as small, local discussions has become more connected — not through expansion or centralization, but through coherence. Across regions, shared themes, tensions, and hopes are emerging. This webpage documents that journey. It gathers reflections, materials, and learning from Hub conversations so others can understand what has been explored and carry it forward. From the beginning, Peace-First was designed as a seed-planting initiative, formally concluding March 31, 2026. Its focus has been to explore how individuals and cultural communities understand inner peace, collective vision, community cohesion, and cultural dignity and visibility. The Hubs are volunteer-led spaces where community connectors and members gather to listen, reflect, and imagine what a peaceful geographic and cultural community might look like in practice. Along the way, we developed background papers, reflection documents, and practical toolkits shaped by lived experience in Manitoba and beyond. This page now serves as a living repository within the Peace-First Library, offering capacity-building tools, framing papers, hub guidance, and shared learning that communities can adapt to their own realities. The purpose is not to centralize authority, but to make learning accessible. Peace-First Hubs are community-led and partner-supported — grounded in relationship, not hierarchy. Supported by ACOMI, ECCM, Palaver Hut, MIA, cultural community members across the country, and allies such as MANSO, Mediation Services, CanU Canada, and PCHS, this work moves through partnership rather than control. This initiative has been made possible through the principal financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, with a supportive role played by The Winnipeg Foundation. Their investment has allowed these conversations, materials, and connections to take shape. These materials are not instructions to replicate. They are tools to adapt. This page is more than documentation. It is an invitation. Peace-First is not about imposing a uniform model. It is about strengthening conditions for dialogue, cohesion, and shared responsibility before a crisis. If this resonates, we invite you to explore further, join a national roundtable call, or consider what it would mean to host or support a conversation in your own community. Join a national roundtable call. Complete the survey. The seeds have been planted. What grows next depends on all of us.

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