Metis Calgary Family Services - Message from the Board of Directors The past year has created many new opportunities for the resiliency and dedication of our Society to respond to the ongoing and evolving community’s needs. During this time, the after effects of a pandemic and the resulting changes in our communities certainly presented greater challenges across more sectors and called to action the skills, dedication and expertise of Metis Calgary Family Services. We experienced growth as we engaged the increased needs of housing and homelessness, and drawing on our established strategic policies and results driven efforts, our experiences within the community from the past 30 years proves timelier now than ever. We continued to deliver and establish best practises in early learning, youth supports, housing and homelessness withand community programming both in the family and among the community members. Over the past year, funding supports also underwent major adjustments and changes as the post COVID period began to normalize. Despite this, the organization has successfully remained viable and continues to be well poised to embrace these ongoing changes in social determinants and resource streams. Overall, the various outcomes and success speak for themselves in indigenous indicator results, these demonstrate a high level of positive impacts in every engagement or project undertaken. Although the community has itself experienced major stressors and disruptions increasing the draw upon our services in unique and demanding ways, the short term and long-term outlooks for our response remain strong as we collectively focus the deep, valid cultural relevance moving forward. There remains the ongoing challenge of systemic reconciliation efforts falling short and slipping into rhetorical expressions, which poses one the more serious threats of the status quo, however the depth, skill and dedication of the Metis Calgary Family Services Society Team, in concert with our Allies, slowly but surely creates that positive legacy towards an authentic path ahead. We would like to thanks all of our supporters, and community members for the continued faith and support of our common cause of healthier families and community. Respectfully, Board of Directors