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THE COMMUNITY OF WEMOTACI HIGHLIGHTS THE BRAVERY OF ITS FIREFIGHTERS
A few weeks after fighting the violent forest fires around their community last May, the residents of Wemotaci honored the 150 firefighters and volunteers who helped save their village. (Cont'd and photos)

CANADA, QUEBEC AND FIRST NATIONS OF QUEBEC SIGN A FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON INCOME ASSISTANCE

News release

New documents from the FNQLHSSC

RESEARCH ON THE HEALTH OF QUÉBEC FIRST NATIONS
AND INUIT: AN OVERVIEW
1986 TO 2006


2O YEARS OF RESEARCH AT A GLANCE

Scholarship / Bursary Directory for Health Careers

Through the AHHRI, the Commission has developed a scholarship / bursary directory that is available to First Nations students for the health field. We hope that this tool will facilitate the task of looking for funding for students in the health field.

A new report from STATISTICS CANADA: Aboriginal labour market update

The First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC): Winner of the Grand Prix de l’initiative de formation - Volet milieu de travail de l’Institut de coopération pour l’éducation des adultes (ICÉA) (More information)

Amnesty International - Report 2010

The State of the World's Human Rights

First Nations and Inuit Health Careers
Program 2010-2011 :
A program from Health Canada which includes two components - the “creation of student summer employment” component and the “events organization” component. (More information)



A new Report by the Canadian Council on Learning presents an innovative, first-of-its-kind measure of the full state of Aboriginal learning in Canada.

Self-care Guide

What you need to know
What you need to do
Protecting yourself and others

 

New report from Health Canada

« Drug Analysis Report on Designer Drugs Seized in Quebec »

Poster

Indian Residential Schools
Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Witnessing the Future (Webcast)

New publication from INSPQ

«Cancer among Aboriginal people living on reserves and in Northern villages in Québec, 1984-2004 - Incidence and mortality »

 

Launching of the DVD
The Legacy of Quebec Indian Residential Schools
The First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission pursues its efforts to help the communities to rebuild their social fabric, which has been tattered by the effects of the governments’ repeated assimilation policies. (Suite)

Click here to watch the DVD.

Regional AHTF review meeting

February 26, 2009 in Lac Beauport was the setting for the second meeting to review the Aboriginal Health Transition Fund for 2008-2009. The Aboriginal Health Transition Fund (AHTF) is a five-year national initiative of the federal government introduced in 2005-2006. (Suite)

Indigenous Children’s Health Report Highlights Disparities in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand

(News release) (Complete report)

New paper from the
Assembly of the First Nations

The State of the First Nations Economy and the Struggle to make Poverty History


Regional Portrait of the Special Needs Situation for the First Nations of Quebec Clientele between the ages of 0 to 6 years
(Read the report)

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada request your support
Investigators for the Canadian Human Rights Commission have completed a report which recommends that the Canadian Human Rights Commissioners formally accept jurisdiction for the complaint filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada respecting the under‐ funding of First Nations child welfare services on reserves. suite

Declaration on an assertion process on First Nations' sovereignty
Faced with governments that deny the rights of its people, and noticing that none of the main political parties in the current provincial electoral campaign lend importance to the issues which affect them, the Chiefs of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, gathered in Assembly, adopted a declaration revolving around a process asserting sovereignty. (Declaration)

Statistics Canada released the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) data for 2006
December 3, 2008, Statistics Canada released the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) data for 2006.  This national survey provides data on the social and economic conditions of First Nations people living off-reserve, Métis and Inuit, including areas such as health, language, employment, income, school, housing and mobility. (More information)



Children and Youth Forum
This past February, more than 250 participants from a wide range of backgrounds came together to reflect on and mobilize themselves around the important issues affecting the children and youths of the First Nations. Further to promoting exchanges among the various people from the communities (leaders, directors, child and youth workers, etc.), we had the opportunity to discuss our realities with our fellow citizens in Quebec, as individuals and as representatives of external organizations. Read this news   All about the Forum

 
 

Addictions Awareness Week:
www.thingsaretough.ca and www.thingsarebetter.ca

We are pleased to inform you that the FNQLHSSC will for the first time be running a campaign for Addictions Awareness Week, through a partnership with the Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux du Québec. (More information)

Memoir, produced by the FNQLHSSC and the AFNQL, presented to the Commission des affaires sociales at the Assemblée nationale du Québec on October 29, 2008 (Commission parlementaire sur l’itinérance (free translation: Parlementary commission on homelessness)

Breaking new ground in Quebec: The Native Friendship Centres given an important boost in their fight against poverty and social exclusion from the Quebec government's action plan for the social economy (Press release)

Communiqué from Assembly of First Nations to First Nations Communities
Update on the Canadian Human Rights Complaint Concerning First Nations Child and Family Services

Statistics Canada releases the Aboriginal Children's Survey
Statistics Canada releases initial results from the 2006 Aboriginal Children’s Survey. This post-censal survey provides an extensive set of data about Inuit, Métis and off-reserve First Nations children aged 5 and under, living in urban, rural and northern locations across Canada. It was designed to provide a picture of the early development of Aboriginal children and the social and living conditions in which they are learning and growing.

The analytical file is available at www.statcan.ca or www.statcan.ca/english/dai-quo


NEWS ARCHIVES


Events to come

13th World Congress on Pain
International Association for the Study of Pain

August 29 - September 3, 2010
Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal

CCSMH 4th National Conference
Theme: Connecting Research & Education
to Care in Seniors' Mental Health
Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health
September 27-28, 2010
Westin Nova Scotian, Halifax

2010 National Conference

Canadian Mental Health Association
October 5-7, 2010
Theme: Communities Addressing Suicide Together
Alderney Landing Cultural Centre, Dartmouth (NS)

18th International Congress on Palliative Care
October 5-8, 2010
Palais des Congrès – Montréal (Québec)

Training "Let's by happy together! preventing childhood obesity in Aboriginal communities"
October 6-7, 2010
Ottawa

21st National Conference Association of Women's Health,
Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses

October 14-16, 2010
Montreal

Best Start Resource Centre 2010 Northern Conference
October 18-19, 2010
Valhalla Inn, Thunder Bay (ON)

XXXVIIIe colloque de l'Association des intervenants en toxicomanie du Québec
Theme : Au coeur du changement : l'intervention en toxicomanie
October 24-27, 2010
Delta Trois-Rivières

 



 



 

Launching of a Blueprint to address the health and social services problems

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Health Tips
 
 
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Arthritis medication joins the fight against TB (The Gazette)

Government of Canada Announces Continued Support of National Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (MarketWire)

Ottawa wary over UN water rights vote (National Post)

AFN Annual General Assembly 2010 - It’s Our Time: a vision for the future (AFN)

Decades of water safety training culturally “irrelevant” to First Nation people (NationTalk)

Aboriginals with kidney disease face poor odds (The Gazette)

Government of Canada invests in research on physical activity and health (Digital Journal)

Addiction treatment does not positively impact the attainment of stable housing (The Examiner)

Queen's participates in international collaboration to improve Indigenous health (NationTalk)

Indigenous Peoples Take the Lead on HIV (NationTalk)

No truth, no reconciliation for aging residential school survivors (Toronto Star)

National chiefs urge feds to step up anti-TB fight (Winnipeg Free Press)

A changing epidemic: Canada’s AIDS rate on the rise (Globe and Mail)

The Role of Nutrition in Diabetic Retinopathy (NationTalk)

Indian Act must go, says AFN boss (The Gazette)

Ottawa updating First Nations pandemic plans (NUPGE)

Life with Arthritis in Canada: A Personal and Public Health Challenge (Public Health Agency of Canada)

Fighting for their identity (Irish Times)

Keep First Nation pandemic plans current: feds (CBC)

Helping native child care
(Winnipeg Free Press)

AFN National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo Launches "IndigenACTION", Aimed at Supporting Healthy Lifestyles, Fitness and Sport (CNW)

Canadian dentists join First Nations Leaders in dialogue on Access to Oral Health Care at the AFN's AGA (Medical News Today)

First Nations’ well-being gap getting worse (Toronto Sun)

Aid agreement signed for Quebec First Nations (CBC)

The hurting
Award-winning novelist Joseph Boyden on the link between residential schools and the devastation of native suicide (McLeans)

IPAC and AFMC release two new documents to support the implementation of Indigenous health curriculum at all Canadian faculties of medicine (NationTalk)

National Leaders Called On to Address The Devastation Affecting Aboriginal Children and Youth (NationTalk)

Study: The health of First Nations living off-reserve, Inuit and Métis adults, 2007 (NationTalk)

Aboriginal babies more likely to die: study (CBC)

AFN National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo calls on federal government to follow the recommendations of a new Parliamentary Report which supports renewed funding for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (NationTalk)

Boy, 11, slams residential schools legacy (CBC)

Truth and Reconciliation event draws thousands of people (CTV)

Commission starts residential school healing (Toronto Sun)

Canada opens dark dialogue (National Post)

Residential school survivors to share sorrow as reconciliation events begin (The Gazette)

Government of Canada appoints Madeleinde Basile to Indian Residential School Survivor Committee of the Trruth and Reconciliation Commission (INAC)

Truths about the truth commission (Globe and Mail)

Residential schools shaped bad parents: survivors (CBC)

Some former residential school students struggle with church presence at reconciliation event (Glove and Mail)

Quebec puts up $20 million to counter abuse of elderly
(The Gazette)

Residential school survivors to tell their stories (The Sun)

Native residential school forgiveness granted (CBC)

AFN National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo Statement on the 2nd Anniversary of Apology to Residential School Survivors (CNW)

Truth commission attendees struggle with travel (CBC)

Advocating for maternal, newborn and child health – Canada’s nurses speak up (NationTalk)

Plans to cut payments draw ire of welfare-rights groups (The Gazette)

Better your plan to fight TB on reserves, Health Canada urged
(The Gazette)

Residential schools event needs volunteers (CBC)

Virtual visits shrink the distance in stroke rehab (NationTalk)

Inuit mothers fight lonely battle for their children’s health (Globe and Mail)

Forest Fire in Atikamekw Territory:
The AFNQL Demands Actions from the Federal Government (AFN)

Residential school survivors to share stories (CBC)

Children’s services on reserves and human rights (The Star)

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Hearing on Discrimination Against First Nations Children in Child Welfare System: Federal Government Attempting to Stop Hearing from Proceeding (APN)

Government of Canada Urges Pregnant Mothers to Go "Smoke-Free" (NationTalk)

The Government of Canada Announces Project that Supports Smoking Cessation in First Nation Communities (MarketWire)

Legislation tabled to improve drinking water quality in first nation communities 
(Environmental Expert)

Gov't stonewalling on child welfare case (The Star Phoenix)

AFN National Chief Calls for Real Action on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations (NationTalk)

OECD: Canada's infant mortality rate worsens (NationTalk)

Release of a Health Canada guide for First Nations: 'Your Health at Home' (Health Canada)

Toward Recovery & Well-being - A Framework for A Mental Health Strategy for Canada (NationTalk)

Report From The National Forum On NNADAP Renewal (NationTalk)

Study lauds Quebec model for medical education (The Gazette)

Tory bill seeks to nationally regulate First Nations drinking water
(The Gazette)

Child-on-child assault cases come to light in residential school hearings (Globe and Mail)

Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts (NationTalk)

TB cases reach global high; experts call for strategy to fight disease (Winnipeg Free Press)

Ten years after Walkerton, drinking water still at risk: report (National Post)

Concerted effort needed to tackle HIV/AIDS (The StarPhoenix)

Health Canada targets aboriginal health (The Hook)

Your Health at Home-The First Nations Environmental Health Guide is Now Available (NationTalk)

New Interactive Diabetes Resource Available Online (NationTalk)

National Aboriginal Diabetes Awareness Day falls on May 7th this year (NationTalk)

Statement from the Canadian Association of Midwives: The World Needs Midwives Now More Than Ever! (NationTalk)

Moving forward on a plan to improve the quality of life for Aboriginal peoples (CNW)

Helping battle drug-resistant tuberculosis (NationTalk)

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