Indigenous First Nations Inuit and Metis (FNIM)

Supporting Indigenous clients: Understanding the neuroscience of trauma and resilience

Live webinar: March 3, 2022 |9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST
Facilitators: Jennifer Mervyn, MA, PhD, and Dwight Ballantyne, Founder, The Ballantyne Project

Métis Youth Wellness Connection: January Sessions for Teens and Tweens

Navigating today’s world for youth can be complicated and challenging. Shifting from the teen years to young adulthood requires young people to be equipped with the tools to build resilience, feel comfortable and confident having conversations about what is going on in their lives, and monitor their wellness.

Social Pressures and Substance Use Awareness for Tweens (Ages 11-13 only)

Join us for a fun interactive game on navigating social pressures and substance use.

Topics:
• Peer pressure
• How to make healthy choices
• How to say no
• Peer pressure
• Knowing your reactions when under peer pressure

This session is for tweens only: aged 11-13

Register today:

As a teen, navigating today’s world for youth can be complicated and challenging.  

Let’s Chat About Mental Health invites teens to join us each month to interact, share and exchange.

A chance to chat in a safe space.

Each month teens will have one-stop access to mental health navigators, youth council representatives, traditional knowledge keepers and specialists.

THIS MONTH:

Monday, November 22, 2021

7:30 - 8:30 PM EST

As a teen, navigating today’s world for youth can be complicated and challenging.  

Let’s Chat About Mental Health invites teens to join us each month to interact, share and exchange.

A chance to chat in a safe space.

Each month teens will have one-stop access to mental health navigators, youth council representatives, traditional knowledge keepers and specialists.

THIS MONTH:

Monday, November 22, 2021

7:30 - 8:30 PM EST

From February - April 2021, the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, the Canadian Psychological Association and Canada Health Infoway,  and the Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) collected national data on the experience and perceptions of virtual services and supports for substance use and concurrent disorders provided during COVID-19, including education and access to health care or treatment.

Join Elaine Uskoski as she speaks about Online Gaming

For many, video gaming can be a welcomed respite from the stresses of every day life, and gives gamers a sense of accomplishment through in-game achievements. However, excessive escapism through gaming carries some serious consequences in the real world, including potentially damaging effects on one’s mental health and real-life relationships. Fortunately, strategies and treatment are available.

This webinar will address issues including:

Hello!

I'm a cannabis education outreach worker for the Six Nations Reserve. I'm toying around with a workshop idea that will essentially keep idle hands busy and away from cannabis, while also educating about cannabis. The target audience would be children and youth. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on activities for this?

Thanks in advance,

Join us on September 23, 2021 at 12 PM EST for a free webinar on promoting youth wellness in Indigenous contexts.

Pauktuutit, the national non-profit organization representing all Inuit women in Canada, has released a new report called "Cannabis in our Communities: What we Heard." This report comes after 11 months of engagement with Inuit women, their partners, and youth to learn more about their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour towards cannabis.

The report is available in Inuktitut and English and can be accessed here.

The Registered Nurses Association (RNAO) in partnership with Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), Chiefs of Ontario (COO), the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Shkaabe Makwa, the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association (CINA), and the Ontario First Nation Young Peoples Council (OFNYPC)  invite you to join us on September 22, 2021 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (ET) for a webinar entitled "Indigenous Mental Wellness” featuring guest speakers Carol Hopkins, Thunderbird Partnership Foundation and Brenda M Restoule, First Peoples Wellness Circle.

The Research Connect Webinar series is hosted by Hamilton Health Sciences Research in collaboration with a network of nine academic teaching hospitals in southern Ontario and two major universities, McMaster and U of T.  This is a virtual space for the research community to come together and strengthen bonds of collaboration.

Title: In Loving Memory of the Children, Honouring the truth, Reconciling for the Future

The Request for Proposals (RFP), entitled, “Creating Culturally Responsive Services for Indigenous; African, Caribbean, Black (ACB); and Racialized Survivors of Homicide Victims” is now open!

This webinar will highlight an innovative program at Mount Carmel Clinic in Winnipeg, MB that builds bridges, strengthens relationships and honors the uniqueness and commonalities between newcomer and Indigenous groups. Join us to learn how this program facilitates an inter-cultural dialogue to debunk certain myths and stereotypes about Indigenous and newcomer groups, and creates a safe space that values diversity, inclusion, mutual rapport and acceptance.

Participants will learn:

Strong Minds Strong Kids, Psychology Canada presents: Indigenous health and wellbeing: Considerations for working with youth

This webinar will provide an overview of Indigenous health and wellbeing in Canada and factors that increase mental health risks. Culturally appropriate healing methods will be discussed with a special emphasis on land-based healing.

Join this event, From the Ashes: A conversation with Jesse Thistle, the fourth installment of the Reconciliation Working Group Speaking Series.