Vision, Mission and Mandate

To reflect the renewed strategic direction launched in February 2007, NNAPF’s Board members met in June 2007. During this retreat, they developed new vision and mission statements to guide the Foundation in the next few years.

Vision Statement

The collaborative vision of the National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation is to cultivate interdependent and empowering relationships as we reclaim and reconnect to our cultural strengths, purpose and place on earth.

The words “collaborative”, “interdependent”, and “reclaim” speak to working together, strengthening one another, and it is not NNAPF’s job alone to make change. It is an inspirational message that we as Aboriginal peoples have healed and so the vision statement is in the affirmative and in the present tense.

Mission Statement

NNAPF is committed to facilitate a process to empower First Nations and Inuit in developing their capacity to address addictions and related issues.

Mandate

To steer the First Nations and Inuit Addictions System towards a wholistic culturally-relevant seamless addictions services (that is driven by the community up).

• To serve as a collective national voice
• To facilitate, support, and recognize the expertise and efforts of First Nations/Inuit in their efforts to address addictions and related issues.
• To promote excellence in all areas (research, best-practices, evidence-base etc.) of the First Nations addictions system and to overcome the barriers.