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Loneliness and Isolation

Are you feeling rejected, isolated, excluded as a result of behavioral problems in school?

Whose words matter? Locate yourself to give a sense of where you are, where you have been, and where you are coming from. There are two choices we should make; self-empowering or self-disempowering. We thought education could level the grounds in social institutions; therefore, do not be intimidated because society constructs makes people fit into those constructions in one way or the other.

NICS helps bridge the gap between loneliness and isolation in individuals. Find help with loneliness, isolation, bad habits, anger management, conflict, stress management, overcome demoralization, and marginalization caused by social stigma.

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The remains of 215 children found buried at a former B.C. residential school.

It is horrific and devastating to learn about the remains of the 215 children-human beings found buried in the B.C residential school. It really hurts to have seen them. Children who went to school to learn were found in the grave, not in learning classrooms. Equity is giving a student pair of shoes that fits not killing them. It is heartbreaking to the death of these innocent souls.

What is the outcome of Jesus Christ's death on the cross for humankind? Did Jesus Christ die for no reason? Did he die for specific people? Did you come to preach Christ or hatred? Did you ever teach Christ to these children? Where they taught religious studies at all? The questions go on. The same people who preached the death of Christ are the same people who preached and showed hatred, killing wickedness. Nothing has changed. Wickedness is everywhere- places of work, school, as you commute.

Covid-19 affected the rich and the poor, black and white, young and the old, the strong and the weak, the Indigenous people, and the settlers. Maybe the Covid -19 will teach us a lesson to know that we are the same humankind. In isolation, you needed someone to talk to and hug –showing care and true love.

The government is aware of what has been going on in Aboriginal communities. Has the government responded? If they have, it has not been sufficient. If we are practicing justice and equity after the Residential School experiences, what is still happening? I challenge the system to offer hope and laughter to the Aboriginal communities. “Merge mercy with might and might with right”.

How can you preach Christ to the same people whom you have killed their relatives? For these reasons, the broken heart, you need to discover God by yourself through your challenges, and what you see people go through or experience will also help you know God. Do not let what you see or go through destroy you, NICS urges you to respond positively to any challenge.

Indigenous people –you are worth it. Nelo Immigrant and Community Services stand with you.

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Fostering A Sense Of Inclusion And Belonging

It all begins with an idea.

We should advocate for equity and inclusion in the normative culture that perpetuates and promotes students/individuals’ discrimination based on race, disability, and gender.

Revaluing the ways some students are underrepresented, undervalued, under resonate in communities, and are consistently positioned, has caused long-term problems for individuals and communities. We want to carefully reconsider and reframe our minds on what has been historically and currently portrayed about some groups. We need to reform our future.  It is a clarion call. The “damaged-centered narrative” has a limit and hindered some student’s progress and it cannot continue perpetuating itself. It is necessary to rectify exclusion and discrimination by deconstructing the colonized perception, which is endemic in the system.

 There is a need for you to have a voice of conversation in your school environment. Let the behavior of someone not affect you. Use self-determination to empower yourself.  This is an engine for change.

 

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