The intended impact of Gathering of Care is to strengthen the relational foundation necessary for long-term systems transformation, community healing, and sustained collaboration.

The gathering seeks to:

• Build and repair trust between Tribal communities, service providers, organizations, and systems leaders;

• Center Tribal voices, lived experience, cultural knowledge, and leadership in conversations impacting Indigenous communities;

• Support participants in recognizing and interrupting harmful systems, behaviors, biases, and inequities;

• Encourage deeper cultural humility, accountability, and relationship-based approaches to care and service delivery;

• Create pathways for continued engagement, shared learning, understanding, and collective action beyond the convening itself;

• Foster stronger connections across generations, organizations, and communities through shared experience, reflection, and dialogue.

This gathering is grounded in the understanding that meaningful change happens through sustained relationships and transformational engagement. Gathering of Care moves at the speed of trust, prioritizing process, accountability, and human connection over urgency, optics, or institutional performance.