Did you know that We Need Everyone has a free teachers guide available fro download? Written by Jerica Fraser it includes topics such as building strong communities, celebrating diversity within and across lived experiences and identities & exploring and discovering individual gifts!

Since this book came out we have shared some amazing experiences together with I Love To Read Month, the Book Launch and now planning additional projects, collaborations or events in the spring an summer across Canada. I have watched delighted students and delighted adults as they … continued

Today, March 6, is Black Balloon Day, a day to honour our relatives lost to overdoses and support those struggling with harmful substance use. Remember relatives, it's never too late to start healing or to reach out and ask for help

In its third week on the chart, We Need Everyone has made it to the #1 spot on McNally Winnipeg Kids Bestseller chart! Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen, so much more good things are to come with this book and related awesomeness!

“Auntie Style” means systems and workers are rooted in the concept of kinship and are able to provide culturally safe care. Check out a report that Indigenous youth from Winnipeg contributed to sharing their hopes for primary care for themselves and their loved ones.

“I want the kids that are told that they're ‘too much’ to feel like they could take that gift that is being described as ‘too much’ and look at it in a different way to say, ‘This gift could actually guide me into a good life,’” (Windspeaker News, January 9, 2024)

I didn't wait for a new year to become a new me and you don't have to either! Let's keep growing together 🌱

CityNews reporter Temi Olatunde walks and talks with Winnipeg Indigenous activist Michael Champagne, discussing some of the challenges facing the north end, and hopes for 2024.

Please join me in trying to get as many copies of my first kids book WE NEED EVERYONE into the hands of children and families in isolated rural northern and remote communities at no cost to them! You send the book to the WE Need Everyone Mailbox, me and my team organize and connect with community partners to get those books to interested families who otherwise couldn’t afford them!