For Community Stewards

content, resources and best practices that can be used to plan your own community events

Explore a growing collection of tools, guides, templates, teachings, and stories that share promising practices and lessons learned from Community Stewards working to engage men and boys in ending gender-based violence. Whether you are a public servant, community member, or workplace champion, this library offers practical resources to spark conversations about creating safety, plan meaningful actions, and strengthen your community’s role in the movement. These materials reflect real experiences, community-led innovations, and Indigenous ways of knowing and being — all here to support you as you bring the Moose Hide Campaign into your space.

Introductory Tools

These tools help you share the purpose and heart of the Moose Hide Campaign with your group.

The Story of the Moose Hide Campaign

A 6-minute video introducing the Campaign’s history, vision, and message.

The Animated Story of the Moose Hide Campaign

A 4-minute video for all ages.

Moose Hide As Medicine

A 1.5-minute video to explain what we mean by “moose hide is medicine”.

we are medicine Intro Video

we are medicine is a self-paced, 5-part learning journey, guided by 90 minutes of video content, offering a practical guide to end violence in Canada, led by Indigenous Wisdom Carriers from across Turtle Island and the Moose Hide Campaign.

Walk with Us

A 2-minute video that highlights key gender-based violence statistics in Canada to help ground your group in the importance of this work.

Steward Code of Conduct

A heart-centred guide outlining the values, responsibilities, and respectful practices that help create safe, inclusive, and culturally grounded Moose Hide Campaign events.

Supports

Alongside your Campaign activities, we encourage you to share resources for finding support, so participants have access to confidential help if they need it.

ACtivation & PLanning Tools

Find everything you need to plan an activity, event, or activation for your workplace, community group, or public service team. 

High-Level Implementation Plan: Organizational Engagement & Scaling

A strategic timeline and communications framework to support organizations in mobilizing leadership, engaging employees, and sustaining participation in Moose Hide Campaign Day

Host Guide: Walk to End Violence

A step-by-step guide to organizing a community walk that honours Indigenous protocol, builds awareness, and mobilizes participants to stand together against gender-based violence.

Host Guide: Moose Hide Campaign Kiosk

A practical guide to setting up and hosting an in-person kiosk to share moose hide pins, spark meaningful conversations, and raise awareness in a safe and respectful way

Host Guide: Virtual Moose Hide Campaign Kiosk

A step-by-step guide to planning and facilitating an engaging online kiosk experience that shares the story, resources, and invitation to participate in Moose Hide Campaign Day

COnversation & LEarning Tools

Meaningful conversations are at the heart of creating safer communities. These tools support you in leading discussions on healthy relationships, respect, compassion, and healing. 

Dialogue Guide: Facilitator

A detailed conversation guide that helps you host safe, respectful discussions on ending violence using traditional and appreviative approaches.

Dialogue Guide: Participant

A participant-friendly overview of the dialogue process, designed to support safe, respectful involvement.

Conversation Starters

Ready-to-use prompts and talking points to help supporters confidently explain their moose hide pin and spark meaningful conversations about ending gender-based violence.

Workshop Watch Party Guide: Len Pierre

Session: Indigenous Trauma & Equity Informed Practices

A ready-to-use kit with everything you need to host a watch party in your space.

Workshop Watch Party Guide: Elaine Alec

Session: Cultivating Safe Spaces

A ready-to-use kit with everything you need to host a watch party in your space.

Workshop Watch Party Guide: Dr. Lee Brown

Session: The Spiritual & Physical Benefits of Fasting

A ready-to-use kit with everything you need to host a watch party in your space.

Fasting Messaging & Safety Script

A trauma-informed script to guide respectful conversations about fasting, honouring its sacred roots while prioritizing participant safety and choice.

Aligning with Ontario Education

The Moose Hide Campaign education approach for learning supports Ontario Education policy priorities and implementation of Human Rights, Equity and Inclusive Education.

Aligning with Manitoba Education

The Moose Hide Campaign supports success for students in Manitoba defined not only by academic achievement but by the capacity to live Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life), through Indigenous teachings about respect, kinship and responsibility.

Redefining Strength: Healthy Masculinity and Ending Gender-Based Violence with Jeff Perera

With warmth, humor, and insight, Jeff creates an inviting space to learn, unlearn, and have transformative conversations about gender, respect, and inclusivity. This dynamic session offers practical tools for fostering healthy masculinity, building equitable relationships, and playing an active role in ending gender-based violence. 

Posters, Visuals & shareables

Make the Campaign visible in your space.

CAMPAIGN DAY POSTER

A printable poster to invite others to Moose Hide Campaign Day.

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Two Page Info Sheet

Printable Signs

Posters to display in workplaces, schools, and community spaces. Also great for having at your Walk to End Violence!

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Printable brochure

Great for having at kiosks and events to help share the message about the Moose Hide Campaign

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Two Page Info Sheet

Templates & Communication Tools

Save time and communicate with clarity using ready-to-use templates. This collection includes sample emails, newsletters, scripts, meeting notes, announcements, and intranet messages tailored to youth, schools, workplaces, community groups, and government departments. Use these tools to introduce the Campaign and keep your group informed and engaged.

Social Media Playbook

A guide to making quick and easy social media posts, complete with images, scripts, and hashtag suggestions

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Social Media Playbook

Email Template: Staff leadership

A customizable internal email template to recruit organizational leads and coordinators to support planning and participation in Moose Hide Campaign Day.

Email Template: Executive Invitation to Staff

A customizable message from senior leadership inviting employees to register, participate, and demonstrate organizational commitment to reconciliation and ending gender-based violence.

Proclamation Template

A sample proclamation of support you can use to proclaim Moose Hide Campaign Day in your local community.

Moose Hide Campaign 2026 Key Messages

Core messaging and positioning statements to support consistent, values-aligned communications about Moose Hide Campaign Day and the movement to end gender-based violence.

Indigenous Knowledge & Protocols

Learn how to share the medicine in a respectful, culturally grounded way. This section includes teachings from Knowledge Keepers, guidance on cultural safety, and resources to support meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities. Use these tools to approach your work with humility, care, and respect.

Fasting

Guidance to help you understand the role of fasting within the Moose Hide Campaign, and how to prepare in a safe, culturally grounded way.

The Role of Men with T8aminik (Dominique) Rankin

T8aminik (Dominique) Rankin, Hereditary Chief and Elder of the Algonquin Nation shares his knowledge the the role of men within Indigenous cultures.

we are medicine

A foundational course grounded in Indigenous teachings on safety, respect, and cultural understanding.

Two Spirit Inclusion Guide

A practical guide to expanding safety, language, and protocol to honour and protect Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and gender-diverse relatives within Moose Hide Campaign spaces

Fundraising Tools

Resources to help you raise funds in a way that honours the medicine, strengthens your event, and sustains the movement.

Donor Toolkit

A collection of tools to help you invite generosity in a way that honours reciprocity, respect, and the sacred nature of the medicine.

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Community Fundraisising Guidelines

Guidance on how to seek community-based support in a way that honours the gifting of the medicine, protects national partnerships, and upholds Moose Hide Campaign values of reciprocity and integrity.