Home

Archive - May 17, 2005

Pic River First Nation students benefit from exchange program

May 17, 2005 - 7:23pm | by Anonymous

Grades 5 and 6 students from Pic River First Nation bid their new friends from Qikiqtarjuaq on Baffin Island farewell on Monday morning. Click here to read the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal news story entitled "Student exchange a hit"

The student exchange between these two Aboriginal communities is an important component of the Kids From Kanata program that both school classes are participating in and where they were first paired and introduced. Keewaytinook Okimakanak sponsored Pic River School's participation in this year's Kids from Kanata program through Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program.

Tags:

KOTH Mental health services, challenges and strategies discussed in Toronto

May 17, 2005 - 5:10pm | by Anonymous

KO Telehealth was invited to attend a Joint Management Committee for the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy specifically around Mental Health Planning for the Province of Ontario. Robert Thomas, KO Health Director, Donna Williams, KOTH Regional Coordinator and Kevin Houghton, KOTH Program Manager attended the meeting in order to present their Tele-psychiatry model.

This special meeting focused around mental health and was identified as a priority to review the projects province wide in order to review the pilot projects in place.

Highlights from the discusions, including the KO Telehealth powerpoint presentation, are posted on the KO Telehealth web site news items. Click here to see the news item about this meeting.

Some of the other meeting participants that gave presentations included:

  • Carrie Hayward, Director, Mental Health and Addiction Branch, MOHLTC,
  • Miriam Johnston, Coordinator, Aboriginal Health Unit, MOHLTC,
  • Kate Andrew, Director, Ministry of Children and Youth Services,
  • Janet Binks, Manager, Mental Health Services, Ontario Region, Health Canada
  • Elizabeth Manson, Director Tele-psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children,
  • Tom Chisel, Director, Treatment Services, Nodin Child and Family Intervention
Tags: