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He started Iwikua, a community wellness and cultural organization, in 2014. He’s currently pursuing a PhD in rural indigenous health. THOSH COLLINS: Dion, you got into this because of your ...
The four main goals of the Native Diabetes Wellness Program are to promote general health in Native communities (physical activity, traditional foods), spread narratives of traditional health and survival in all aspects of life, utilize and evaluate health programs and education, and promote productive interaction with the state and federal ...
Since 2019, CAIRHE has sponsored Promoting Indigenous Research Leadership (PIRL), an annual three-day workshop that supports the public health research careers of Indigenous and other early-career faculty who work with Indigenous communities. The workshop hosts faculty investigators from across the United States for enriching career development ...
The policy reasoned that improvements to the health status of Indigenous peoples should be built on three pillars: (1) community development, both socio-economic and cultural/spiritual, to remove the conditions which limit the attainment of well-being; (2) the traditional trust relationship between Indian people and the federal government; and ...
Today's Indigenous doulas aren’t forging a new practice. They’re reshaping an established approach within a modern context. They create birthing plans, present options for birth facilities ...
Esther Tailfeathers (born 1960/1961) is a Canadian physician.. Raised on teetotal tribal lands, where she observed her father's struggles with alcohol, she became the medical lead at Alberta Health Services' Indigenous Wellness Core, where she developed Indigenous Health Commitments: Roadmap to Wellness.
"Ensure timely access to perinatal mental health services;" "Implement a three-digit suicide prevention hotline;" and "Introduce a new fund for student mental health" "Support the Minister of Indigenous Services to co-develop and invest in a distinctions-based Mental Health and Wellness Strategy to meet the needs of" Canada's Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous-led health centres located within the city of Prince George, British Columbia, provide a sense of community and safety to its members. The focus on relationship building provides the Indigenous community the safe space to participate in activities created for their wellbeing and to access health services accommodated for their needs ...