Gladys Evelyn Taylor-Cook has volunteered with and been a mentor to troubled Aboriginal youth and adults throughout Manitoba for nearly three decades. A recognized First Nations Dakota elder for 18 of those years, she is a role model in First Nations communities.<\/p>\n
For the past 26 years, she has spent an average of three days a week volunteering at the Agassi Youth Centre and the Women’s Correctional Institute in Portage la Prairie. Acting as both an advisor and mother figure, she forms a special bond with the inmates whom she assists on their journey to recovery. She has also participated in numerous sharing circles for sexually-abused inmates.<\/p>\n
In addition, over the past 30 years, Taylor-Cook has been a volunteer with the St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Portage la Prairie and the United Church in Beausejour. For 12 years, she has been a respected member of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP).<\/p>\n
She has received numerous awards for her volunteerism including
\nthe Governor General\u2019s Award, the Order of Rupertsland and the Manitoba Volunteer of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-10898","oom-recipients","type-oom-recipients","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients\/10898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oom-recipients"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}