Isobel Pinesse Memorial Health Centre
- Coordinates consultations with visiting professionals
- Provides health awareness, education and prevention workshops and seminars
- Coordinates clinics in areas that may include Diabetes, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases
- Coordinates regular foot care sessions with visiting chiropodist
- Identifies and attempts to correct health hazards
- 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
- Provides access to specialized medical care using videoconferencing and other tele-diagnostic equipment
- Allows specialists to remotely examine and prescribe treatments to patients in their home communities
- Reduces the need to travel to receive care
Services and Programs
Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children
- 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)
- 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
- Milk coupon program
- Home visits during child's early years to offer development guidance
- Referrals to other programs and services
- Provides case management and screening services
- Offers basic foot care clinics
- Offers nutrition programs and recipe exchanges
- Works to reduce the number of avoidable complications that can arise from uncontrolled diabetes
- Advises on developing and implementing an approach to care and management of diabetes
- Assists individuals in finding appropriate services
- Provides referrals to other health care professionals and the Northern Diabetes Health Network (NDHN)
- Offers Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings when required
- Provides transportation to all meetings and workshops upon request
- 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
- Facilitates recreational activities and social events
- Provides individual and group discussions
- Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings
- 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=152459
Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent First Nation’s Minweyaanigoziwin Family Well-Being program is a community based program with front-line services and safe places where children, youth and families can access and receive culturally responsive supports that address the root causes of family violence and over-representation of indigenous children in care.
The Position of Cultural Coordinator will work in a team environment with the Family Advocate Program Model and ensure that that all services provided to our children and youth are culturally-appropriate and nurture their Anishinaabe identity and belonging.
The Director of Operations is responsible for the management, administration and delivery of all Nation programs and services in order to ensure that the needs of IIFN members are met in a reasonable effective and efficient manner.
The main objectives of this program are to increase the number of community members in the database from 155 to 200. As the program assistant, you will work with the Employment & Training Coordinator to ensure that the collection of surveys is completed by March 31, 2021.
The Family Support Workers will work closely with Prevention Team to assist with families, youth and children to navigate services internally and externally to increase access to health, social, education related appointments or referrals in a safe and trusting manner.