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Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) is providing 40 area health and social service organizations with cross-cultural sensitivity training materials.  The mail-out will include:

1. “Menonakachihewaywin Natamakewin (Better Care Giving Project)” Training Facilitator’s Manual
    
2. “A Guide for Professional Caregivers:  Self-Advocation for First Nations Clients” and
    
3. a Workshop Support CD.

Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) has now completed the Menonakachihewaywin Project, a cross-cultural sensitivity training project to assist frontline “professional caregivers” who interact with aboriginal clients in a variety of settings.  The Menonakachihewaywin Project was funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) under the OTF Granting Priority of "Healthier Ontarians".

An earlier project conducted in 1998/99 by Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) produced “A Guide for Professional Caregivers – Self-Advocation for First Nations Clients”, which is a self-help manual that was distributed to local facilities.  The 2004 Menonakachihewaywin Project has revised the Manual and Guide through a combination of research, Elder interviews, caregiver working group meetings and a cross-cultural training workshop.

Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) is an aboriginal women’s organization serving women, youth and families who reside within Northwestern Ontario First Nation communities.  It is a non-profit, provincially incorporated (1989) organization with charitable status serving aboriginal people from 31 First Nation communities in Northwestern Ontario.  Equay-wuk (Women’s Group) is independent from any other women’s group in Ontario.  (Website: www.equaywuk.ca)

For more information about this, Contact:

Felicia Waboose,
Program Director
Equay-wuk (Women’s Group)
Tel: (807) 737-2214
Fax: (807) 737-2699
email: equaywuk@nwconx.net