Aboriginal Capacity Development provides training, advice, coaching and organization and professional development important to ensuring that housing will last a long time and serve occupants well. These measures help Aboriginal people achieve self sufficiency in housing.
Work focuses on developing residents' skills, helping housing inspectors, housing managers, and finance officers develop as professionals, and helping First Nations and Aboriginal organizations become fully competent and highly skilled in developing and managing housing. Training includes: Client Counselling, Property Management, Sustainable Community Planning, Indoor Air Quality, housing quality, development of Healthy Housing and support for Aboriginal youth career fairs and conferences. Activities also occur off reserve in keeping with broad federal priorities (e.g. urban aboriginal strategy).
Program Objective
Assist Aboriginal individuals, communities and institutions acquire the skills , tools and resources needed to work toward self-sufficiency in housing.
Key Activities, Fiscal Year 2004-05
1. Training Workshops; 2. Conference Support; 3. Institutional Support
Program Outputs, Fiscal Year 2004-05
1. First Nations Comprehensive Housing Quality Training Initiative: Total number of sessions: 66
Total number of participants: 700+
Total number of communities impacted: 150+
National coverage: 100%.
2. Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation - 2 conferences; National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Blueprint for the Future - 2; Technical Services Advisory Group - 1; British Columbia Aboriginal Housing Conference.
3. Supported First Nations National Building Officers Association Development & Implementation of Certification processes; supported start up of First Nations National Housing Managers Organization working group.
| Operations and Maintenance | 4,163 |
| Grants | 0 |
| Contributions | 2,094 |
| Capital | 0 |
| Total Program Expenditures | 6,257 |
Aboriginal Target Group
- Programs Available to All Aboriginal Peoples
Program Delivery Mechanism
- Direct federal (program delivery to Aboriginal people in Canada)
Program Funding Mechanism
- Contract (66%)
- Contribution (including single and multi-year funding agreements) (34%)
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Additional Comments
(Note: Questions or concerns related to program information contained in the Aboriginal Horizontal Framework should be directed to the applicable department, agency or Crown Corporation.)
The agreements are administered by the CMHC Business Centres or by Provincial/Territorial governments where a Social Housing Agreement has been signed. Subject to contractual commitments for new and existing business, and provincial agreements to March 31, 2007.