Community Impact Award

Winner!

Dexterra Community Initiatives (FR)

Dexterra Community Initiatives – The Outland Youth Employment Program

Dexterra Community Initiatives is a non-profit organization incorporated to inspire action and develop opportunities with and for communities wherever Dexterra Group Inc. operates or has partnerships. The mission and vision of Dexterra Community Initiatives is to create a national network of thriving communities that provide safe, equitable, and green opportunities, and spaces where we work and live. Through the Outland Youth Employment Program, Dexterra Community Initiatives has emerged as a leader providing education, training and employment of Indigenous youth in the green space.

Land Acknowledgment

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we recognize all Nations who live, work and play on this land and honour and celebrate this territory.