{"id":1291,"date":"2008-06-12T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:10","slug":"national-association-of-friendship-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"National Association of Friendship Centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OUR MISSION\u00a0 is to improve the quality of life for Aboriginal peoples in an urban environment by supporting self-determined activities which encourage equal access to, and participation in, Canadian Society; and which respect and strengthen the increasing emphasis on Aboriginal cultural distinctiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/board.htm\">Homepage<\/a> and links;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/history.htm\">History<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/friendship.htm\">Friendship Centres<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/programs.htm\">Programs<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/ayc.htm\">Aboriginal Youth Council<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/memorial.htm\">Spirits of Friendship<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/staff.htm\">staff list<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/resolutions.htm\">Resolutions<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/contact.htm\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/about.htm\">About<\/a>: he National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) was established in 1972 to represent the growing number of Friendship Centres, at the national level.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCurrently, the NAFC represents the concerns of 99 core funded and 15 non-core funded Friendship Centres, as well as 7 Provincial Territorial Associations (PTA&rsquo;s), across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The primary objectives are: to act as a central unifying body for the Friendship Centre Movement: to promote and advocate the concerns of Aboriginal Peoples: and, to represent the needs of local Friendship Centres across the country to the federal government and to the public in general.<\/p>\n<p>The NAFC is a non-profit organization governed by a voluntary Board of Directors comprised of eleven regional representatives and a youth representative. There is also a four member Executive Committee, comprised of the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafc-aboriginal.com\/about.htm\">full text<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR MISSION\u00a0 is to improve the quality of life for Aboriginal peoples in an urban environment by supporting self-determined activities which encourage equal access to, and participation in, Canadian Society; and which respect and strengthen the increasing emphasis on Aboriginal cultural distinctiveness. Homepage and links; History; Friendship Centres; Programs; Aboriginal Youth Council; Spirits of Friendship; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1291\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;National Association of Friendship Centres&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15636,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/15636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}