◌ Empathy Ledger

OCAP statement

How your file works.

This page is for young people, families, staff, and anyone else who wants to know what we do with the things you put on this platform.

Ownership

What you make is yours. The drawings, voice notes, photos, and writing you put in your file belong to you. Not to Oonchiumpa, not to us, not to any university partner.

Control

You decide who sees each thing. Default is private. You can change it any time. Staff at Oonchiumpa can only see what you have shared with them.

Access

You can come back to your file whenever you want. You can download a copy of everything you have made. You do not lose access when a program ends.

Possession

Your file is held on this platform with backup, but the original belongs to you. If you want a physical copy (printed book, USB drive, posters), Oonchiumpa can make that happen.

If you want to pull something back

You can hide any item from your file. Tap the visibility toggle on the item and choose private. It will disappear from anyone else's view straight away.

If you want it deleted completely, tell your youth worker or any staff member at Oonchiumpa. We hold a backup for 30 days in case of mistakes, then it is gone from our systems.

Who can see what

SettingWho sees it
PrivateOnly you.
Oonchiumpa staffYou plus the staff who work with you. No one else.
FamilyYou plus the family members you have named. Coming later.
ResearchOnly if a university partner is signed up with proper ethics approval. Not active yet.
PublicAnyone. Requires elder sign-off and your explicit yes. Not active yet.

Three people sign off before you start

Before you can add things to your file, three people sign off: you, a family member or carer, and an elder or community member. This is not a paper form, it is a real conversation. If any of them want to stop the consent later, your file goes private and stays that way.

Where this comes from

OCAP stands for Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession. It was developed by First Nations communities in Canada and is used around the world to make sure communities, not systems, hold their own data. We follow it because it is the right way to work.

Back to it

Your file is yours.