Tatkresiwok Community Solutions Inc.

STEVEN CARLETON
Co-Founder & CEO of Tatkresiwok Community Solutions Inc.

Over the past 13 years, Steven Carleton has been at the forefront of the Indigenous reconciliation journey within Canada and specifically serving the Inuit community. He has worked at a grassroots level within the local Inuit community in Ottawa, as well as traveling across the country and to every Inuit community within Nunavut.

His experience spans from serving on Youth & Elder Reconciliation roundtables, as a support worker at Mamisarvik Treatment Centre (Ottawa, ON), Canada’s only Inuit-specific trauma and addictions treatment center, as well as serving as a facilitator of Inuit Cultural presentations for the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre within the Ottawa Carleton District Schoolboard. He also served as the Director of the Arctic Hope Project where he facilitated suicide prevention and youth leadership workshops in communities across Nunavut while also building partnerships with local stakeholders including government & municipal leaders, school principals & teachers, law enforcement, mental health workers, church leaders, and local community elders,

In 2021, he co-founded Tatkresiwok Community Solutions Inc which serves to help Indigenous communities access the funding & services they need, while also providing support in relation to Feasibility Studies, Jordan’s Principle funding, as well as access to high-quality mental health services & support.

As the son of an Inuk mother who was born and raised nomadically on the land in Nunavut, Steven has seen firsthand the resiliency of his own people. He has sat and heard both their stories of trauma and struggle, but also of perseverance and forgiveness. It is his belief that building a bright future for our children starts with us putting aside our differences and intentionally investing in the good we see in each other.

By working together, one partnership at a time, it is his belief that we can show the next generation that we don’t have to solely define each other by the trauma we’ve experienced, but instead by celebrating the potential we see in each other.