By Victoria Ybanez, MPA Programs grow out of ideas and if the ideas are strong enough, meaning they are responsive to the community needs, they generally will be forward moving with the right conditions, and the path and pace of the movement can be somewhat predictable. There are factors that influence where a program is at in its life cycle. These include the age of the program, changes and emerging trends within the field of work, the program’s size, its social environment,

By Victoria Ybanez, MPA It’s no secret that Indigenous women have been through a lot in the last few hundred years. Between European...