Funding

Pikisowin: Home Maintenance for Health - College of Nursing  CIHR Seed Funding Program - Wanda Martin, Charlene Thompson & Shelley Kirychuk (August 2024 - July 2025)

• The project explores the housing literacy of single women with children to develop a suitable housing maintenance pathway. This work recognizes the strong connection between women and the home in the Cree teachings, with migawap symbolizing women as the foundation of family and community. The project's objective includes assessing single mothers' interest and capacity for housing repairs and maintenance, identifying common repair and maintenance needs, and developing a pathway for confident, self-sufficient women to maintain clean, bright, and healthy homes. 

First Nations Built Environment Climate Action - Catalyst Grant, CIHR - Wanda Martin, Shelley Kirychuk, Lori Bradford, Kerry McPhedran & Penelope Sanz. (July 2023 - June 2024). 

• The purpose of this funding is to explore interest, share knowledge, and build capacity for First Nations people living on reserve to adopt and advance climate-friendly housing. The process will advance evidence-informed decision-making on energy-efficient housing, a key public health and climate change issue. The objective is to explore the current landscape and opportunities for energy efficiency housing for First Naitons as an option to address the critical need for healthy housing and climate mitigation.

Partnering for Miyo Waskahikan - Planning Grant, CIHR - Shelley Kirychuk, Lori Bradford, Wanda Martin, Kerry McPhedran, James Dosman, Chandima Karunanayake, Jafar Soltan, & Eldon Henderson. (June 2023 - May 2024).

• This is to support the symposium entitled "Building for the Future: Housing and Health Forum"

Enhancing Wellness in our Miyo Wāskahikan - Solutions Impact, SHRF - Shelley Kirychuk, Kerry McPhedran, Lori Bradford, Wanda Martin, James Dosman, Vivian Ramsden, Sylvia Abonyi, Jafar Soltan & Punam Pahwa. (March 2023-February 2025).

• Embracing a Saskatchewan-based approach to reconciliation of housing and health on First Nations, this research aims to develop, action and evaluate a framework to address and redress on-reserve housing builds and housing maintenance. This process will bring together First Nations community leaders and members, academics, home builders and home-maintenance providers, wellness providers, training and program development providers and policy influencers in the address and redress of this significant determinant of health outcomes.

Thriving in our Miyo Waskahikan - Connections Program - Truth and Action, SHRF. Shelley Kirychuk, Kerry McPhedran, Lori Bradford, Wanda Martin, Lalita Bharadwaj, James Dosman, Vivian Ramsden & Punam Pahwa. (January 2023-December 2023).

• The goal of the grant is to use a community centric, community driven, team approach to enhance thriving Miyo Waskahikan (Beautiful Homes) and improve the health of occupants of homes on-reserve in Saskatchewan. 

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant Pilot Program - University of Saskatchewan - Lori Bradford, Tara Kahan, Lalita Bharadwaj, Wanda Martin, Shelley Kirychuk, Terry Fonstad, Kerry McPhedran, Marcus Brinkmann & Jafar Soltan. (October 2022-November 2023). 

Kisêwâtisiwin for the Home: Meeting for Change - Research Connections, SHRF - Wanda Martin, Kerry McPhedran, Shelley Kirychuk, Lori Bradford & Jafar Soltan (May 2022 - May 2023). 

• Historical inequities in the provision, deisng, maintenance, and replacement of housing for Indigenous communities in Canada have led to significant social, cultural, and health impacts. We are holding a symposium that will bring together Indigenous community leaders, housing managers, and community members, home builders, policy makers and researchers in a knowledge-to-action process on Indigenous housing in Saskatchewan. 

Kisêwâtisiwin for the Home - SSHRC Exchange- Wanda Martin, Kerry McPhedran, Shelley Kirychuk, Lori Bradford. (July 2022 - June 2024).

• To be responsive to community needs and inclusive of community values, and to overcome a siloed and research-driven approach to solving inequities on reserves, we are proposing a symposium bringing together different community leaders and community members with home builders and with research teams who have engaged in participatory research with Indigneous communities for many years. The Cree word ka kwayakatisown means inequity while kisewatisiwin means compassion and goodness of heart. We undertake this project with a joal of embracing goodness of health to overcome inequity in the provision of healthy homes.