Health Links
Community Health:
Pre/Postnatal Group – Tuesdays 11 am – 1 pm
For prenatal women as well as mothers with infants up to 18 months of age
The pre/postnatal group promotes healthy pregnancies and postnatal health. All pregnant women and mothers of babies up to 18months are encouraged to attend. Participants are welcome to have one additional person join them. The classes begin with 30 minutes of Yoga which is led by a certified trainer, followed by an education topic promoting health moms and babies. A nutritious lunch is provided. Rides can be provided for community members on reserve.
Topics covered include:
Nutrition for healthy pregnancy and breastfeeding
Fetal development
Breadth feeding information and support
Potential complication of pregnancy
Drug and alcohol effect on fetal development
The birth process; labour and delivery
Car seat safety
Back to sleep
Xu’athun Tsatsup Wednesdays 10:30 am – 12 pm (Kwumut Lelum & 4SEY)
For mothers with children up to 6 years of age
Aboriginal parenting in today’s world. Rides provided for community members on reserve. What will be offered:
Hands on activities
Topic discussions
Elder involvement to share traditional teachings
Information on child development
Early years parenting resources
Mini workshops and overall Family health and wellness
Monthly draws
Parent Break – Thursdays 10 am – 2 pm
For mothers or women who are caring for children
The Parent Break Program is designed to improve parent and child relationships and develop happier families. In this program, parents get a break to improve mental health and increase self esteem. During this program, cultural practices are taught as well as other parenting skills while child minding is provided.
Boys and Girls Groups – Tuesdays 2:30 – 4:30 pm
For boys and girls between ages 9 and 12
The Boys and Girls Groups are designed to introduce health and mental health issues for boys and girls during their pre-teen years. The program is designed to deal with emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health including ‘coming-of-age’ and the culture around it. Recreational activities are done for the last 45 minutes of the program
Mental Health Program
One-on-one Counselling
This program is designed to improve and increase healthier choices. Also, to reduce risk of suicides, ideations, attempts and competed. As well it helps improve coping skills for trauma, anger, depression and anxiety.
Women’s Group & Men’s Group
Women’s Group is Mondays at 4pm; Men’s Group is Wednesdays at 6pm
The Women’s & Men’s group are designed to increase self esteem, promote a healthy lifestyle, increase volunteerism, increase trust and confidentiality; and improve teamwork, mental health, friendships, community, and social supports. It is also designed to decrease isolation.
Alcohol and Drug Program
This program concentrates on increased sobriety, improved coping, increase participation in treatment programs, and one-on-one counselling, mental and emotional health. The decrease in intergenerational effects of residential schools, alcohol and drug related offences, child apprehension, and suicides.
Alcoholics support group meetings held every Friday at 2pm for community members starting their sobriety or have been sober for some time.
Home Care Program
Open to Community members with disabilities or Elders who require HC (assessed by HCN)
This program provides community members health care at home. The HCN may help you manage your own care at home by providing assessment, education, medical, counselling, medical and surgical care. It is designed to improve community health, increase people living well at home, help people be able to manage their own care, independence, medication management and wound care, manage and prevent chronic disease. Also, decrease isolation for elders and seniors.
Home Makers now fall under Health Supervision. Home makers do general house cleaning for those with disabilities and Elders who have no one else who can do this.
Lunch Preparation is also provided with these programs.
Dental Program –Tuesdays-Thursdays 9:00am-4:00pm
Health Canada supplies a Dental Therapist to provide limited services to community members for dental care. This program also includes providing information on dental hygiene and awareness. We want to increase the amount of people who seek dental services and decrease periodontal disease.
Patient Transportation
This program is to improve accessibility for health services for community members who must travel outside of our community. We want to improve flexibility and discretion of services
Diabetes Prevention Program
Diabetes Support Meetings every third Thursday when scheduled; Diabetes Swim Thursdays 8pm
What you can expect from this program is improved health and self care of a community member with diabetes, better managed diabetes, reduced body weight; improved diet, increased exercise, increased awareness and improved attitudes of diabetics, improved mental health.
Communicable Disease Control- Immunization Program and Pandemic Control
Information is given on how to lower sickness and also about increased immunization coverage (ideally 90-95% vaccination rate is the goal).
Communicable Disease Control- HIV/STI’s Harm Reduction
Learn how to decrease HIV/STI’s.
Prevention of Food Borne Illness, and Prevention and Control of Other Diseases
Reduce illness and disease in the community.
TB Program
Learn about TB rates and how to eliminate TB incidences.
Physical Exercise-Adults
Learn about improved/increased opportunity for physical activity, also, how to improve weight management and decrease obesity.
Primary Health Care Services
A separate room has been set aside as an examination room for Primary Health Care Providers. It contains almost all equipment and supplies needed for primary care for our Stz’uminus Community Members.
Doctor Steeves provides primary health care once a month, usually on a Thursday 9:30am-noon.
The Nurse Practitioners provide primary health care services every Monday and every first and third Thursday of the month. Every third Thursday, the NP will provide information on a specific topic. To date, only Asthma has been done. Look forward to Arthritis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD), etc.
The Midwife comes in on an as-needed basis to meet with expectant mothers
PROGRAMS IN DESIGN STAGE:
Couples Program
Learn to be happier, healthier in lasting relationships, healthier conflict, increased and improved abilities to set and respect boundaries, healthier children, positive role models, and cooperative parenting.
Dad’s Group with children age 5 and under (Similar to Moms and Tots Program)
This program concentrates on how to improve relationships with mother and children, bonding with children, confidence in parenting, and awareness of importance of fathering /role modeling, self esteem and respect, healthy discipline; playing, boundaries, labour and delivery support, and more holistic care.
Anger Management Program
This program offers information about decreased domestic violence and community violence (i.e. Bullying). Increase self-awareness and understanding, pride and tradition, coping strategies. Also, decrease lateral violence, suicides, racism, inter-general effects of residential school. Explains how to improve abilities to identify and manage emotions.
Grief and Loss