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.

This fact sheet developed by the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation provides culturally-grounded and strength-based supports for First Nations people during COVID-19. Check it out here.

This resource was developed by Shkaabe Makwa at CAMH to uplift people's spirits during these unprecedented times. 

We have a wonderful opportunity to look at the opioid crisis from an indigenous lens and how we can address it.  Please join us for the half day at Wabano for our first addictions forum. 

Purchase tickets here: https://wabano.com/event/addictionsforum/

This is a one day forum intended for social workers, health care and mental health professionals, addiction counselors, group home operators, law enforcement and educators working with Indigenous children and youth.

Join the conversation with our dynamic keynote speakers in exploring the new Child Welfare legislation and how it will play out in an urban setting. There will also be Q&A with speakers - moderated by Kelly Raymond.

Direct registration link: https://teach.camhx.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=8

Please note: You are required to create an account or login to register for courses.

Best practices, including community-based research, OCAP principles, knowledge translation, and positioning communities as co-researchers will be discussed, including the development of a training module to assist AgingTech researchers in ethically engaging Indigenous communities to promote equitable access to technology. Webinar participants will:

For a glimpse of Canada’s planning and governance in play for Indigenous Peoples – useful right now to take a look at this half hour documentary by the NFB in 1956 – and consider how policy development echoes and more to the point rings out to us today.

Traumatic Stress, Trauma-Informed Care and Clinician Wellbeing

Harry Zeit MD currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychotherapy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy, completing the final level of training in 2013. Previously, he worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge and Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.

Over recent years in the context of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples be it indicated  by acknowledgements at the get go of meetings or announcements of policy’s and initiatives, there has remained a sense for me we are not going about reform and change very well.  Mary McPherson’s drawing “Reconcile What?” helped to wake me up.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cu...-tickets-59948914818

The CAT (Cultural Awareness Training) sessions are meant to provide an awareness about Indigenous people in Canada. Participants will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge, skills of the history, experiences, and events which have influenced the relationship of Indigenous people in Canada.

Dennis McPherson presentation to Lakehead University law school, “Indian on the Lawn, thirty years of reflection”

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cu...-tickets-59948914818

The CAT (Cultural Awareness Training) sessions are meant to provide an awareness about Indigenous people in Canada. Participants will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge, skills of the history, experiences, and events which have influenced the relationship of Indigenous people in Canada.

This webinar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, June 26, 12:00-12:30 pm, due to unforeseen circumstances.

The Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) Community of Interest invites you to its upcoming webinar, "Indigenous Peoples and the health care system: Exploring health equity for First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Ontario."