Session Title: Staff support
Person who proposed the topic: Marlene Heavy Shields
Participants (pass around this sheet if you like):
Main point we discussed (try to be brief and make it understandable to others):
- No orientation / layed back / unprofessional
- No grievances
- no on to talk to
- 10 – 1 ratio
- puppet board
- no support when it comes to planning
- expand the centres / no support
- always be mediator
- let the staff plan it and they did the planning and it was not carried out
- we don’t have happy proactive workers
- feel like one person is doing everything / taking on big responsibilities
- one person always ruffling feathers
- staff are stressed
- no special needs staff
- won’t let us know what our budget is / never enough money
- can’t treat people like slaves
- lack of respect for elders
- management is losing focus
- lack of communication
- Director has no experience in communication
- No food in budgets
- Power and control / running into a brick wall
Next steps we can do together (including who, what and when, if appropriate):
- Health Canada to help us
- Document everything
- Stand up for staff
- Unionize (if off reserve) if on-reserve / use the same system
- Getting together forming a system / staff development
- have workshop / people to media – non-native / strategies sharing circles
- elders – if there is a will there is a way