Ontario Aboriginal Health Advocacy Initiative Training workshops available
The Ontario Aboriginal Health Advocacy Initiative is a free information and training resource for front line and community service worker. Workshops can be tailored for your audience. All we ask of you is to set up participants, and arrange for suitable space.
TWO DAY WORKSHOP
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Participants will examine their attitudes about suicide, learn how to effectively recognize and review the risk of suicide and develop intervention skills.
ONE DAY WORKSHOPS
Communications and Conflict
- Presents the elements of effective communication and resolution of conflicts through participant based case studies.
Cultural Sensitivity
- Provides cultural sensitivity training for front line/community workers and mainstream service providers.
Hepatitis C
- Provides information about Hepatitis C and it’s prevalence within Aboriginal communities with a focus on prevention and harm reduction.
Report and Proposal Writing
- Presents the complete proposal writing process from planning to evaluation.
Traditional Health: A Guided Discussion on Access and Issues
- Presents Aboriginal traditional concepts of health, the development of traditional health programs and client access issues.
Youth Healthy Sexuality
- Designed to educate front line workers/community members about healthy sexuality and to foster improved sexual health education to Aboriginal youth.
HALF DAY WORKSHOPS
Advocacy for Front Line Workers
- Identifies types of advocacy and the skills and attitudes necessary to be an effective advocate.
Complaints Process: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
- Provides basic information about the Regulated Health Professions Act and the formal complaints process for the C.P.S.O. including appeals and alternative complaint routes.
SuicideTALK (can be tailored to a one hour presentation)
- Is aimed for most community members to help make it easier to have open and honest talk about suicide.
PRESENTATIONS
MADD Awareness Training
- MADD Canada (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) PowerPoint presentation reviews MADD services and how to access MADD for community development.
Vicarious and Intergenerational Trauma
- A PowerPoint presentation designed to facilitate discussion.
There are three other Health Advocacy Developers located throughout Ontario.
For Further Information, please call the North West Health Advocacy Developer at Anishnawbe Mushkiki Aboriginal Health Centre in Thunder Bay, Ontario at 807.343.4843 or email at healthadvo@anishnawbe-mushkiki.org. Her name is Michelle Richmond-Saravia. Feel free to drop in at Anishnawbe Mushkiki as well. The address is 29 Royston Court, Thunder Bay, Ontario. We are locatted in Port Arthur off Camelot Street and Algoma Street.
NOTE: The funds provided through the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy are intended to provide an Aboriginal Health Advocacy Developers initiative. The purpose of the Health Advocate initiative is to address issues and concerns with regard to the equitable access to and quality of health services for Aboriginal, First Nations and Metis people throughout the province of Ontario. The Aboriginal Health Advocacy Developers focus on facilitating awareness, training and education of Aboriginal health service providers, front-line workers and organization representatives about various systems, protocols and approaches for dealing with various barriers to access to health services. The Initiative does not provide direct advocacy services. It is anticipated that Aboriginal cultural approaches will be reflected or used as a part of the activities and services proposed.