Inuit Cultural Sensitivity Training

Tungasuvvingat Inuit in partnership with OASW Learning Centre
Wed, Dec 2, 2020 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

CBT for Psychosis (CBT-p) Informed Workshop for Family Caregivers

Racial justice is important to the health and housing sectors. Research has shown troubling over-representation of Black and Indigenous populations in homelessness.

This webinar will examine ways to appropriately serve racialized populations by highlighting:

About the Presentation: From 2013-2017, Dr. Alika Lafontaine co-led the Indigenous Health Alliance (IHA), a health transformation project involving 150 First Nations across three Provinces. In 2018, the Federal government allocated $58 million in funding for initiatives championed by the IHA. Drawing on research gathered during the 5 year project and two decades of experience in Indigenous Health, Dr.

Hosted by the Cannabis Knowledge Exchange Hub

Youth and cannabis use speaker series

Part 2:  Panel discussion: Cannabis use amongst diverse youth

September 29th, 2020, 12 to 1:30 p.m.  EDT

Register at: https://bit.ly/35pUf80

PANEL:

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is hosting the 2020 Indigenous Health Conference (IHC). The focus for this year’s conference is the future and how we can cultivate the youth as tomorrow’s leaders and agents of change. Topics will include youth leadership, suicide prevention, impact of colonization, murdered and missing Indigenous women, determinants of health, Indigenous ways of knowing.

This year, our Annual Conference will focus on helping meet the mental health needs of those often underserved within our communities. With over 50 CECs worth of workshops to attend and sessions including on-demand learning materials and interactive live events, this year’s virtual conference has something for everyone.

Engaging Indigenous Youth for Kids Help Phone: A reflection of knowledge shared is a report prepared by Sister Circle Consulting for Kids Help Phone. This report was shaped with guidance by Kids Help Phone's Indigenous Advisory Council and engaged 180 young people over 11 sessions across eight locations in Canada. The report reflects young people's perceptions and understandings of mental health, identity, spirituality, relationships, coping, and healing.

Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX) is excited to launch an interactive online conversation series on how the Ontario youth sector is adapting to shifting contexts as a result of COVID-19.

When the pandemic hit, youth programs did not just pack up but continued their relentless search for ways to keep supporting better outcomes for Ontario’s youth!

Making the Shift Inc. is thrilled to host the first of its Virtual Event Series featuring Jesse Thistle, a Métis scholar with lived experience of youth homelessness and the co-author of the definition of Indigenous homelessness in Canada. Jesse will share his journey of resilience while navigating homelessness as an Indigenous youth, how it informed his work as a scholar and national bestselling author, and his process of co-developing the definition of Indigenous homelessness in Canada.

The COVID-19 outbreak in the far north village of La Loche and Clearwater River Dene Nation, Saskatchewan was one of the first outbreaks in a remote community in Canada. With a population of just over 4000, the communities are approximately 95% Indigenous (First Nations and Métis). On April 15, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the area and was then transmitted rapidly throughout the community.

Guest Speaker:

Kahontakwas  DDiane Longboat, M.E,
Centre for Addiicction and Mental Health (CAMH) Eldeer and Senior Project Manager Guidinng Directions Implementation 

Objectives:

Diane Longboat, Heidi Maracle & Cora-Lee Simon are members of CAMH Aboriginal Caucus and they offer some thoughts on the importance of building knowledge about Indigenous histories, cultures and resiliency for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada.

June is a special time to consider the history, contributions, sacrifices, and strengths of our people across the country, coast to coast to coast; and to share the experience the diverse and rich cultural traditions and histories of First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada.

Date: June 30, 2020
Time: 6:00- 7:30 pm
Note: This program will be held virtually.
 
About the Event: 

Working with Hard to Reach Clients

Date: July 2, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:00
Presented by: Empowering Community Minds
Note: This program will be held virtually.
 
About the Event: 

This is a brief introduction of one model of how peer support and traditional Indigenous healing can work together to enhance and expand the healing and wellness for people of indigenous heritage. It is meant to give people, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, a look at one way to support peers of Indigenous people using peer support. It is one way of opening up the lines of communication. It is not just meant for Indigenous people but for their allies as well. It allows everyone to connect and expand their horizons.

The City of Toronto has developed a COVID-19 Mental Health Support Strategy that responds to the needs of vulnerable residents.

Over the past 20 years there have been remarkable strides in providing cultural safe services to First Nations patients, families and communities, however there is still much work to be done in ensuring equitable access to culturally safe services.

During this pandemic, health organizations and service providers have faced additional challenges in their efforts to prepare, monitor and respond to COVID-19. Our First Nation partners are juggling an unprecedented number of concerns in accessing safe, and culturally appropriate, services for their community members.