Spirit Journey Village
You can help support Mother Nation in bringing urgent cultural healing, housing & addiction services to Native women,familes and sexual assault survivors.
Native American women experience disproportionately high rates of violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking and are the most likely to be missing or murdered.
We experience the highest overdose death rates in the country. Crisis are on the rise as deadly fentanyl overdoses sweep through unsuspecting communities.
The origins of these problems are complex and include harmful federal policies and practices that go back generations.
But the intervention is straight forward:
Addressing these barriers requires comprehensive efforts that center on
community empowerment, cultural resilience, and meaningful
engagement with Native perspectives and priorities. Native women need
wrap-around recovery services and cultural healing for themselves and
their families in a trauma-informed Native-led setting
Mother Nation is poised to significantly expand its successful recovery
program into the Spirit Journey Village--increasing capacity over five-fold.
We bring cutting edge clinical practice to traditional teachings and cultural
healing services. With culture at the center of recovery-focused safe
housing, women and families heal. Life gets better.
Our Spirit Journey House is a transitional home for Native women who are
experiencing the impacts of generational trauma and often find
themselves homelessness and vulnerable with chemical dependency. Spirit
Journey house is a two year housing that provides a culturally supportive
space for Native women to reclaim their spirit and cultural Identity that
many have hidden to survive . Mother Nations mentee’s choose to work a
recovery program from substance abuse and complex trauma, we are able
to provide wrap around and custom-designed cultural services with over 22
workshops, weekly Talking Circles with a sweat onsite.
Mother Nation, a Native-led 501 (c) non-profit organization, is developing
Spirit Journey Village in Skyway, WA. The project has site control and a
Congressional Direct Spending award of $1.148 million toward total project
costs of $10 million. Mother Nations’ Spirit Journey Village is the only
program in the country providing cultural support, safe housing and wrap
around services to Native Women surviving sexual assault and addiction.
The project is endorsed by ATNI and supported by Washington First
Nations and Tribes.
