Cariboo Friendship Society

Restoring our Aboriginal Roots (ROAR) is an innovative healing program with a community awareness component for Aboriginal people who are Residential School Survivors and/or have been impacted by the Legacy and intergenerational impacts of Sexual and Physical Abuse in Residential school.The program primarliy focuses on the resolution of unresolved trauma from sexual and physical abuse in residential schools for male survivors and the multigenerational trauma resulting directly from the sexual and physical abuse in the residential schools.

This project will offer three four-week healing programs, two one-week refresher programs, two three-week youth programs and a one-week frontline leadership program. The project will also provide pre-care and aftercare support to participants and their families.