2014 Program

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

7:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Colony Ballroom and Foyer
8:00 Opening Ceremony and Welcome
Colony Ballroom
8:30 Justice Murray Sinclair:
Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Colony Ballroom
9:30 Dr. Evan Adams:
Transforming Systems, Transforming Ourselves – an Update on the First Nations Health Authority in BC

Colony Ballroom
10:15 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits
10:30 Workshop Session #1 Room
Suicide Prevention W01 Complementary Competencies Through Collaboration for First Nations and Mainstream Addictions Managers and Workers
Carol Hopkins, Robert Eves, Raymond Deleary
National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Lombard
2nd Floor
Mental Health W02 Connecting the Dots: An Innovative Urban Aboriginal Mental Health Project
Jessa Williams, Johanna Denduyf
Canadian Mental Health Association British Columbia Division, British Columbia Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres
St. David North
3rd Floor
Women’s Health W03 Supporting First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women to Engage in Shared Decision Making: A Skill Building Workshop
Janet Elizabeth Jull, Minwaashin Lodge, Dawn Stacey
University of Ottawa, Institute of Population Health, Minwaashin Lodge – The Aboriginal Women’s Support Centre, University of Ottawa
St. David South
3rd Floor
Traditional W05 Atikowisi miýw-ay¯awin, Ascribed Health and Wellness, to Kaskitamasowin miýw-ay¯awin¯, Achieved Health and Wellness: Shifting the Paradigm
Madeleine Dion Stout, Elder
Elm
2nd Floor
Food security / nutrition W06 Evaluation of "Community-Led Food Assessment for Inuit Communities" model aimed at assessing and addressing Food Security in Inuit Communities
Kristeen McTavish, Chris Furgal, Shantel Popp, Vinay Rajdev, Kristie Jameson
Trent University, Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments, Trent University, Food Security Network of Newfoundland and Labrador
St. Patrick South
3rd Floor
Cultural Safety WO7 “Don’t bother him, he’s probably just drunk”: Advancing Indigenous Cultural Competency training in Ontario
Vanessa Ambtman-Smith, Guy Hagar
Provincial Aboriginal LHIN Network (PALN) South West Local Health Integration Network, Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC)
Colony Ballroom
2nd Floor
Health Systems W08 There Are Good Things Done Under the Midnight Sun
Julie Lys, NP, Laura Lee Evoy, RN, Bandy Thompson, RN
Fort Smith Health & Social Services Authority / Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, Fort Smith Health & Social Services Authority
Armoury
2nd Floor
Nursing W09 Collaborating for Cultural Safety in Nursing Education
Vivian Recollet, Pamela Walker
Native Men’s Residence, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto
St. Patrick North
3rd Floor
Respiratory / cardio / chronic disease W10 Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Indigenous Health Strategy
Lesley James, Ratsamy Norman Pathammavong
Heart and Stroke Foundation
St. George
3rd Floor
11:30 Speaker TBA:
National Aboriginal Women’s Association
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Colony Ballroom
12:30 Lunch and Posters
Colony Ballroom & Giovanni Room

Documentary Civilized to Death will be shown over lunch in the ballroom
*courtesy of Ms. Kimlee Wong, Researcher Writer, APTN

1:30 Oral Presentations Room
Women’s Health (including Reproductive and Violence)

O01 Gettin’ F.O.X.Y.: Exploring the Development of Self-Efficacy among Young Women in the Northwest Territories Using an Arts-based Sexual Health Intervention
Candice Lys
Institute for Circumpolar Health Research

O02 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
Nicole Johnstone
Sherbourne Health Centre

O04 Internal and External "Risk" Constructions as Barriers to Birthing Choices for Indigenous Women: Findings from a Comparative Study in Northwestern Ontario
Pamela Wakewich, Kristin Burnett, Martha Dowsley, Helle Moeller
Departments of Indigenous Learning, Anthropology & Geography, Health Sciences, Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Lakehead University

Lombard
2nd Floor
Women’s Health (including Reproductive and Violence) and Children’s Health

O05 Adapting HOME VISITING PROGRAMS in Aboriginal communities -Lessons learned from implementation
Faisca Richer, Michèle Boileau-Falardeau
Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Agence canadienne de santépublique

O06 Spirit Runner: An activity app for Aboriginal youth
Don Patterson
Every Kid Deserves a Chance Inc.
Marika Bellerose, Vera Nenadovic
Health Canada – First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Hospital for Sick Children

O08 Healthy Teeth, Healthy Lives: Steps to Improve Inuit Children’s Oral Health
Tanya Nancarrow, Anna-Claire Ryan
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

St. Patrick North
3rd Floor
Mental Health (including Substance Abuse)

O09 Methadone overdose death: Case study of a 52 year old Métis woman
Lynn F. Lavallee, Kelly A. Fairney
Ryerson University

O10 ITS TIME: Indigenous Tools and Strategies on Tobacco Interventions
Peter L. Selby, Rosa C. Dragonetti
CAMH, CAMG

O11 Getting something out of (close to) nothing: self-designed Indigenous mental health learning experiences
Alex Drossos
McMaster University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

O12 Building Virtual Communities to End Isolation
Peggy A. Shaugnnessy
Whitepath Consulting

St. David North
3rd Floor
Infectious Disease and Determinants of Health (housing, poverty, etc.)

O14 Root Cause Analysis of Premature Deaths in the Aboriginal Population in Toronto
Chandrakant Shah, Rajbir Klair, Allison Reeves
Anishnawbe Health Toronto, Private Practitioner

O16 Determinants of Sexual Health in a Northern Cree Community
Dionne Gesink, Lana Whiskeyjack, Terri Suntjens, Alanna Mihic, Sherri Chisan
University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Blue Quills First Nations College

O13 The Outreach Planning & Exchange Network for HIV/STBBI Prevention Programs: An Overview
Rick Harp
National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID)

O15 Supporting Aboriginal Health Care Needs Through an Aboriginal Employment Program
Steve Sxwithul’txw, Rod O’Connell
Island Health (Vancouver Island Health Authority)

Colony Ballroom
2nd Floor
Determinants of Health (housing, poverty, etc.) and Environmental Health

O19 Exposure to methylmercury by consumption of fish and the risk for neurotoxicity in the developing fetus at Walpole Island First Nation – changes from 1975 to 2014
Judy Peters, Gideon Koren, Michael J. Rieder, Mary Jane Tucker, Rosemary Williams, Dean Jacobs, Phaedra Henley, Katherine Schoeman, Regna Darnell, Christianne V. Stephens, Carol P. Herbert, Chandan Chakraborty, Bradley A. Corbett, Charles G. Trick, John R. Bend
Chatham-Kent Community Health Centre, Walpole Island Office, Walpole Island Health Centre, Walpole Island Heritage Centre, Departments of Medicine, Paediatrics, Pathology, Physiology, Pharmacology, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Pathology, Family Medicine, Biology, and Science, Interfaculty Program in Public Health, Siebens-Drake Medical Research Institute, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University; Ivey School of Business, Western University; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University

O18 Enhancing Traditional, Healthy Food Skills in an Urban Aboriginal Community
Jaime Cidro, Tabitha Martens
University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba

O20 Provision of Sleep Apnea Care in Saskatchewan: Policy Complexities Related to Registered Indian Status
Tarun Katapally, Caroline Beck, Gregory P. Marchildon, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Sylvia Abonyi , Punam Pahwa, Mark Fenton, James Dosman
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre, University of Regina, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan

St. David South
3rd Floor
Health Care Systems and Cultural Competency and Safety

O21 Reducing the Gap: Robotics technology increases access for patients in Northern Saskatchewan
Ivar Mendez, Veronica McKinney
University of Saskatchewan – also a presenter, University of Saskatchewan

O22 Institutional incompleteness in the urban Aboriginal health service infrastructure
Kian Madjedi, Kevin FitzMaurice
Laurentian University

O26 Wellness in our own words: Understanding the interconnected elements of Indigenous health through partnerships
Kian Madjedi
Laurentian University of Sudbury

O23 Aboriginal Cultural Safety Initiative
Chandrakant Shah, Allison Reeves

Anishnawbe Health Toronto

St. Lawrence
3rd Floor
Cultural Competency and Safety and Traditional Ways and Self-determination

O24 Talking About Change: Understanding Colonial Rhetoric
Pamela Walker
Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

O25 Enhancing Supportive Decision Making For Aboriginal Patients and Family Members
Jenny Lynn Morgan, Anita Ho, Kim Taylor
University of British Columbia

O27 Cultural continuity is protective against diabetes in Alberta First Nations
Richard Thomas Oster, Angela Grier, Rick Lightning, Mari Mayan, Ellen Toth
University of Alberta, Piikani Blackfoot Nation, Ermineskin Cree Nation

O28 Self-Determination in First Nations Communities
Angela Mashford-Pringle
University of Toronto

St. George
3rd Floor
Traditional Ways and Self-determination

O29 Mino-bimaadiziwin: Re-honoring the relational roots of Indigenous food sovereignty
Michelle Daigle
University of Washington

O30 The Toronto Aboriginal Health Advisory Circle: The Development of An Innovative Model of Self Determination
Ellen M. Blais
Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network , Toronto Central Lhins

O32 Nehiyaw Pimatisiwin: Sharings from Onihcikiskowapowin – Cultural interventions from a community-based research partnership with the University of Toronto
James Makokis, Alsena White
Saddle Lake Health Care Centre, Saddle Lake Cree Nation

O31 wahkomakanak: Relationships and Language as Medicine
Lana Whiskeyjack, Dionne Gesink, Alanna Mihic, Priscilla McGilvery
Saddle Lake Cree Nation, University of Toronto, Blue Quills First Nations College

Armoury
2nd Floor
Indigenous Research and Population Health Data

O34 Community Based Participatory Research as a Path to Build Resilience
Kevin Donald Willison
Lakehead University

O36 Telling Our Stories: Population Health Surveillance in Unama’ki
Elaine Allison, Darlene Anganis, Stacey Lewis, Jennifer MacDonald, Sharon Rudderham, Laurie Touesnard
Wagmatcook Health Centre, Membertou Wellness Home, Tui’kn Partnership, Waycobah Health Centre, Eskasoni Health Centre, Potlotek Health Centre

O35 Letting the Body Tell Its Story: Using Body Mapping and Hazard Mapping as Visual Representations of Community Well-Being in Indigenous Health Research
Christianne V. Stephens, Linda Lou Classens
York University, Walpole Island First Nation

Elm
2nd Floor
2:30 Break
2:45 Dr. Janet Smylie
Resisting Exclusion – Understanding and Supporting
Métis Growth and Empowerment
Colony Ballroom
3:30 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits
3:45 Workshop Session # 2 Room
Mental Health W12 Homeless and Hopeless: An examination of Toronto’s Health and Addiction Services for Indigenous homeless peoples and what can be done to improve them.
Suzanne Lea Stewart, Nicole Estella Elliott
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/ University of Toronto
St. David North
3rd Floor
Determinants of Health W13 The Work of Frontiers Foundation of Toronto
Jim Bacque, Lawrence Gladue, Marco Guzmana, Don Irving
Frontiers Foundation of Toronto
Elm
2nd Floor
Traditional W14 Wii Kwan De Taa (Bringing People Together for a Sacred Purpose
Lori Flinders
Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services
St. David South
3rd Floor
Inuit W15 More than medicine: on being an ally and a physician advocate in Nunavut
Madeleine Cole
Qikiqtani General Hospital
St. Patrick North
3rd Floor
Respiratory/ cardio/ chronic disease W17 A History of Dying at Home From Pre-European Times to the Present Palliative and End of Life Care Era
Dean Walters
Central East Community Care Access Centre
St. George
3rd Floor
Equity W18 Jurisdiction as a Determinant of First Nations Health Care
Stephanie Ann Sinclair, Amanda Meawasige
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs
Lombard
2rd Floor
Education W19 I honestly don’t think I learned anything about Indigenous peoples: Understanding medical school preceptors’ and students’ current knowledge andattitudes towards Indigenous peoples and Indigenous health
Heather Castleden, Debbie Martin, Jeff Denis, Paul Sylvestre
Queen’s University, Dalhousie University, McMaster University
St. Patrick South
3rd Floor
Research W20 Respondent driven sampling (RDS) as a tool for urban Aboriginal health assessment and community engagement in Ontario, Canada
Michelle Firestone, Janet Smylie, Sara Wolfe, Constance McKnight
Well Living House, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto , De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre
Armoury
2nd Floor
Children’s Health W60 The Atii! Health living intervention improves knowledge, builds cultural skills and strengthens intergenerational bonds among Inuit children, youth and families in the Nunavut
Gwen Healey, Shirley Tagalik, Tracey Galloway
Qaujigiartlit Health Research Centre (AHRNNU), Arviat Health committee, University of Manitoba
Lawrence
3rd Floor
4:30 Break
4:45 Workshop Session #3 Room
Health Systems W21 Community health worker models: International best practices and their application to remote First Nations communities
Ben Chan, Janet Gordon, Sumeet Sodhi
University of Toronto, Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority, Dignitas International
Elm
2nd Floor
Mental Health W22 An Indigenous Model of Effective Community Mental Health Services
Germaine Frances Elliott, John Rice
Enaahtig Healing Lodge, Simcoe County Canadian Mental Health Association
Lombard
2nd Floor
Children’s Health W23 Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Inuit Children
Dr. Anna Banerji
Department of Paediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
St. Patrick North
3rd Floor
Traditional W24 Understanding Tobacco Use Amongst Youth in Four First Nations
Sheila Cote-Meek, Sonia Isaac-Mann
Laurentian University, Assembly of First Nations
Armoury
2nd Floor
Inuit W25 Social Determinants of Inuit Health
Anna Fowler
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
St. David North
3rd Floor
Cancer W26 Reducing inequalities in cancer for Ontario First Nations: From surveillance to action
Loraine Marrett, Diane Nishri, Amanda Sheppard, Anna Chiarelli, Alethea Kewayosh
Cancer Care Ontario, Hospital for Sick Children
St. Lawrence
3rd Floor
Cultural Safety W27 Is cultural safety enough? Confronting racism to address inequities in Indigenous health
Barry Lavallee, Linda Diffey, Thomas Dignan, Paul Tomascik
University of Manitoba, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
St. George
3rd Floor
Equity W28 Manitoba First Nations Indicators of Wellbeing
Leona Star, Kathi Avery Kinew
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs
St. Patrick South
3rd Floor
Education W29 Come walk in our mocassins: Strategies in Recruitment, Admissions and Curriculum at the Aboriginal Program at the University of Ottawa
Darlene Janet Kitty
Aboriginal Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
St. David South
3rd Floor
Research W30 Creating a First Nations health data repository in Ontario by linking the Indian Register to ICES health administrative data: a collaborative governance process that protects the interests of First Nations
David Henry, Tracy Antone, Carmen Jones, Saba Khan
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Chiefs of Ontario
Carlton
2nd Floor
5:30 Reception
Colony Ballroom
7:00 Adjourn

Friday, November 21, 2014

8:00 Communities to Researchers Advocacy Breakfast Discussion
Chaired by Vanessa Ambtman-Smith and Dr. Lisa Richardson
Colony Ballroom
9:00 Natan Obed:
Improving Inuit Nunangat health outcomes – A call to action

Colony Ballroom
9:45 Dr. Angeline Letendre:
Indigenous Nursing and Nursing Knowledge as Practice toward Improved Health and Wellness in First Nation, Inuit and Metis Communities

Colony Ballroom
10:30 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits
11:00 Workshop Session #4 Room
Children’s Health W31 The Status of Oral Health among Canada’s First Nations Peoples and Inuit
Amir Azarpazhooh, Dick Ito, Martin Chartier, Tracey Guitard, Hannah Tait Neufeld
Faculty of Dentistry-University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine-University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital, Public Health Agency of Canada, Thunder Bay District Health Unit and Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Colony Ballroom
2nd Floor
Women’s Health W32 Trafficked: Why are Aboriginal Women at Increased Risk?
Eileen McMahon
Mount Sinai Hospital
St. David North
3rd Floor
Children’s Health W33 No Jordan’s Principle Cases in Canada? The Truth and Politics of Disparities in Access to Health and Social Services for First Nations Children Living On-Reserve
Vandna Sinha, Anne Blumenthal, Molly Churchill, Lucyna Lach, Nico Trocme
McGill University, University of Michigan
Armoury
2nd Floor
Traditional W34 An Investigation into some Contemporary Self-Regulatory Dynamics that Operate in and around First Nations Traditional Healing Systems
Julian Robbins
Independent Community Based Researcher
St. Patrick South
3rd Floor
Environmental W35 The potential contribution of exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and of psychosocial stress to enhanced risk for Type 2 diabetes (T2D) at Walpole Island First Nation (WIFN)
John R. Bend, Rosemary Williams, Gideon Koren, Michael J Rieder, Mary Jane Tucker, Naomi Williams, Phaedra Henley, Julie Hill, Zahra Jahedmotlagh, Regna Darnell, Christianne V. Stephens, Stan Van Uum, Carol P Herbert, Chandan Chakraborty, Dean Jacobs, Judy Peters, Charles G Trick
Walpole Island Health Centre, Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Walpole Island Heritage Centre, Department of Pathology, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Departments of Anthropology, Social Sciences and Pathology, McMaster University, Departments of Family Medicine and Pathology, Chatham-Kent Community Health Centre, Walpole Island Office, Department of Biology, Science and Interfaculty Program in Public Health, Siebens-Drake Medical Research Institute
Lombard
2nd Floor
Cancer W36 Addressing gaps in the continuity of cancer care with and for First Nations, Inuit and Métis living in rural and remote communities in Canada.
Colleen Patterson, Pam Tobin
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
St. Patrick North
3rd Floor
Cultural Safety W37 Clinical tips for culturally-safe care: A new Consensus Guide for Health Professionals working with First Nations, Inuit and Métis
Alisha Nicole Apale
SOGC
St. George
3rd Floor
Social work W39 Rahskwahseron:nis – Building bridges with Indigenous communities through decolonizing social work education
Michael Loft, Nicole Ives, Courtney Montour
McGill University, School of Social Work
Elm
2nd Floor
Research W40 Storytellers as Public Health Facilitators
Joahnna Kathleen Berti, Jeanette Levall, David Osawabine
Debajehmujig Storytellers
St. Patrick South
3rd Floor
11:45

Lunch and Posters
Colony Ballroom / Giovanni Room

Documentary Rivers of Hope: “Bringing health to indigenous communities in the Orinoco and the Amazon in Colombia” will be shown over lunch.
*courtesy of Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO/WHO), funded by the Canada- Foreign Affairs,Trade and Development Department.

1:00 Genocide: The Canadian Perspective Panel
Dr. Michael Dan, Chief Phil Fontaine, Mr. Bernie M. Farber
Colony Ballroom
2:15 Workshop Session #5 Room
Substance Abuse W41 Prescription Drug Misuse – Looking at Prevention in Indigenous Communities through a Population Health Lens
Cheryl Currie
University of Lethbridge
Armoury
2nd Floor
Women’s Health W42 Beyond The Womb: Encouraging healthy pregnancies through cultural reconnection
Ashley Lamothe, Roslynn Baird
Southern Ontario Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative
St. Lawrence
3rd Floor
Children’s Health W43 Issues in service delivery to Canadian First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children with speech and language difficulties
Alice A. Eriks-Brophy, Francis Lori-Anne Davis-Hill, Jacqueline Dawn Smith, Laura Todd Hunter Leah Rae Radziwon
University of Toronto, Six Nations Health Services
St. George
3rd Floor
Traditional W44 Teaching cultural competence in the federal government – the Indigenous Community Development course
Rose LeMay
First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, FNIHB or Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
St. David North
3rd Floor
Environmental W45 Uranium Mining and Health: Facts, Figures and Questions
Dale M. Dewar
Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
St. Lawrence
3rd Floor
Respiratory / cardio / chronic disease W46 Respiratory health in First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities: Raising awareness through community outreach and engagement
Jennifer Dawn Walker, Oxana Latycheva, Wayne Warry
Nipissing University, Ontario Lung Association, Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research
Colony Ballroom
2nd Floor
Cultural Safety W47 A new way of looking at good practices in Aboriginal communities: The Canadian Best Practice Initiative’s Aboriginal Ways Tried and True Methodological Framework
Nina Jetha, Lori Meckelborg, Andrea L.K. Johnston, Steve Jreige
Public Health Agency of Canada, Johnston Research Inc.
St. David South
3rd Floor
Health Systems W48 Back to Moss: Developing and Integrating Public Health Services for Northern Ontario First Nations Communities
Janet Gordon, Emily Paterson
Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
St. Patrick North
3rd Floor
Midwifery W49 Aboriginal Midwifery: Aboriginal Midwives working in Every Aboriginal Community
Ellen M. Blais
Association of Ontario Midwives
St. Patrick South
3rd Floor
Research W50 Addressing health inequalities by Indigenizing health services and research
Julie Bull
University of New Brunswick
Lombard
3rd Floor
3:00 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits
3:15 Workshop Session #6 Room
Respiratory / cardio / chronic disease W51 Embedding First Nations approaches into the prevention and management of chronic disease
Shannon Tania Waters
First Nations Health Authority
Armoury
2nd Floor
Substance Abuse W52 Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment
Colleen Dell, Carol Hopkins, Peter Menzies
University of Saskatchewan, National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation (NNAPF), CAMH
Colony Ballroom
2nd Floor
Women’s Health

Shared Workshop

W53 The Aboriginal Women’s Health Intervention: What is the potential for contributing to social change?
Colleen Varcoe, Jane Inyallie, Linda Day, Madeleine Dion Stout, Holly MacKenzie, Annette Browne, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
University of British Columbia, Central Interior Native Health, Vancouver Native Health Society, University of Western Ontario

W59 Solidarity not appropriation: How non-Indigenous healthcare providers and organizations can support Indigenous women’s reproductive justice and sovereignty
Holly A. McKenzie
University of British Columbia

Lombard
2nd Floor
Food security / nutrition W54 Use-and-Occupancy Mapping: A tool to support food security in aboriginal communities
Daniel Tobias
D. Tobias Consulting Inc.
St. Lawrence
3rd Floor
Cultural Safety W55 A Journey to Cultural Competency and Safety: Highlights of IPAC-AFMC Collaborative Activities
Darlene Janet Kitty
Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada
St. David North
3rd Floor
Midwifery W56 Revolutionary Care: Indigenous Midwifery
Cheryllee Bourgeois, Billie Allan
Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto, Well Living House
St. Patrick North
3rd Floor
Research W57 Using record linkage to study chronic diseases in the Métis population in Ontario
David Henry, Storm J Russell, Wenda Watteyne, Saba Khan
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and University of Toronto, Métis Nation of Ontario , Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
St. Patrick South
3rd Floor
Social work W58 One Canoe, One Oar: Navigating mental health with our Indigenous youth, a wholistic approach.
Ela Smith
Wholistic Child and Youth
Elm
2nd Floor
4:00 Break
4:15 Conclusion and Next Steps
Dr. Anna Banerji
Colony Ballroom
4:30 Adjourn