Mitaanjigamiing First Nation
Health Services
- Provides services that promote physical and mental health for community members
- Provides health awareness, education and prevention workshops and seminars
- Coordinates clinics in areas that may include Diabetes, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases
- Coordinates monthly foot care sessions in individual's home or at clinic
- Works with maintenance workers and Environmental Health Officer to ensure community water quality
- Identifies and attempts to correct health hazards
Addresses individual health care needs by providing:
- Intake services to determine health care needs of individual
- Referrals to appropriate health care providers based on information in the intake assessment
- Advocacy on behalf of individual with other health professionals
- Coordination of one-on-one pre-natal care with the community health nurse
- Home visits to the sick, elderly, new mothers and persons with health care needs
- Assistance with coordinating local and long distance travel arrangements for medical appointments
Aboriginal Healing and Wellness
- Provides information on family violence, strategies to stop it and healthy relationships
- Facilitates group talking circles
- Offers individual peer counselling
- Provides referrals to needed community and regional supports and services
- Provides education and information about health and wellness issues
Community Care Program
Delivers child care and protection services and family support services to community members
Alternative Care Program
- Provides assistance and support to children in care
- Provides training for child care providers
- Offers support and guidance in reuniting siblings who are/have been part of the foster care system
Prevention Services
- Teaches parenting skills and assisting children through difficult times
- Develops and administers healthy social and recreational programs for families
- Hosts community forums to address issues such as youth drug abuse, inadequate housing, schooling problems and after school activities
- Organizes elders meetings that address traditional child rearing methods
- Provides information sessions about understanding substance dependency and resulting family violence, and overcoming oppression by understanding cultural realities
Repatriation Services
- Processes requests to have children in external foster care brought back to homes within the community
- Provides advocacy on behalf of the child and family
Outreach Services
- Provides the option to children adopted by outside families to discover their birth family and heritage
- Provides records and information to Tribal Agency and external resources
Community Care Program - Family Support Services
- Offers community based family counselling for children, teens, men, women and families as a group
- Provides assessments and case management services
- Provides services of traditional healers
- Offers community workshops to raise awareness of issues affecting families including substance abuse and family violence
- Supports community initiatives that promote family healing such as traditional gatherings
Also offers the following family support services including but not limited to:
- Advocacy and referral to external agencies
- Assistance in the planning of child's and family's needs
- Emergency financial assistance for basic needs only in cases where the welfare of child/children is at-risk
- Home visitation arrangements and supervison to enable parents to visit with their children living in alternative care
Healthy Babies/Healthy Children
- Delivers a parenting support program and promotes healthy child development
- Provides group information and educational sessions on topics about healthy pregnancy, birth and taking care of baby at home
- Provides information on the stages of pregnancy
- Offers parents handbook of pregnancy and baby care (Baby's Best Chance)
Program participants are provided with:
- Follow up via telephone within 48 hours of discharge from hospital
- Home visits pre birth to prepare family for new arrival
- Home visits post birth to offer support to new mothers
- Home visits during child's early years to offer development guidance
- Referrals to other programs and services
Immunization Clinic
Provides inoculations or other measures to prevent people from contracting specific controllable diseases
Medical Transportation Program
- Delivers medical transportation services and assistance in making medical appointment arrangements
- Provides transportation from/to Mitaanjigamiing Reserve to any medical appointments (doctor, dentist, optometrist, specialist) in the town of Fort Frances
- Provides assistance with completing prior approval applications for long distance medical appointments
- Provides assistance with making arrangements for any medical appointments out of town such as booking appointments, hotels, and completing applications for mileage compensation
National Native Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program
- Provides services and support for individuals and families struggling with addiction issues
- Offers Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings when required
- Provides transportation to all meetings and workshops upon request
Prevention
- Provides public seminars/meetings to raise community awareness of alcohol, drug abuse and gambling addictions
- Holds educational sessions in schools
- Coordinates cultural and spiritual events
Intervention
- Facilitates recreational activities and social events
- Provides individual and group discussions
- Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings
Aftercare
- Provided for preventing reoccurrence
- Counselling, sharing circles and support groups
- Regular phone calls and home visits
- Referrals to band services, social services, detoxification and treatment centres and medical assistance
Source: https://www.northwesthealthline.ca/displayService.aspx?id=157381
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