Museum Exhibition The Truth on the History of the Indian Residential Schools "Reconciling with the past" In order for this project to be realized, we called upon the Aviva Community Fund. To make this ad chapter of our history known to all, please vote on: AVIVA COMMUNITY FUND To maximizeour chances, you can voteevery day until October 19.

First Nations Regional Meeting on Perinatal Care and Early Childhood For more information, contact Danielle Goulet or Elizabeth Siouï at 418-842-1540. Click here to access the documents.

QUEBEC FIRST NATIONS AND INUIT FACULTIES OF MEDICINE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST Thanks to all the youths who have participated in large numbers! See the photos of the participants.

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

REPORT FROM PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglet

FIGHT AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA IN THE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES The First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC) is pleased to present you with the new poster on the theme of homosexuality. This poster was developed in the framework of an inter-regional collaborative agreement that focuses on the health, wellness and quality of life of lesbians, gays and bisexuals. (Cont'd)

Financial Assistance to Host Events During National Victims of Crime Awareness Week

The Government of Canada provides funding for organizations to host events during National Victims of Crime Awareness Week (NVCAW). This year, NVCAW occurs from April 10 - 16, 2011. The theme that has been chosen for NVCAW 2011 is: Many Voices, Many Paths. (Cont'd)

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

NAMHR 2010 Annual Summer School in Indigenous Mental Health Research
Program details - Registration form

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 »

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)

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

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

Human Rights Tribunal begins historic case alleging Federal Government discrimination against First Nation children in state care (Suite)

Canada, Quebec, and First Nations in Quebec reach an historic chidwelfare framework (News release) (Backgrounder)

Statistics Canada report on the Incarceration of Aboriginal people in adult correctional services

AFN says urgent measures on H1N1 must be in place before the fall AFN Regional Chief Angus Toulouse who holds the portfolio for health called for three urgent measures to improve the response to pandemic outbreaks of H1N1 in First Nations communities. (Suite)

Dismantling of a drug ring in communities of Eastern Quebec
After a long investigation by the RCMP, a network of manufacturing and distribution of PCP in First Nations communities of Eastern Quebec was dismantled this morning.
(The FNQLHSSC' s press release) (The RCMP's press release)

Annual golf tournament of the AFNQL $25,000 raised for the New Pathways Foundation (Press release)

The Assembly of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission, and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi emphasize the academic success of 49 students of the First Nations of Quebec in two programs of study. (Suite) (Video)

Brief presented to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills Development, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities by AFNQL, FNQLHSSC and FNHRDCQ.

Quebec’s First Nations remember 10,000 years of presence and 400 years of colonialism
August 9^th, the FNQLHSSC join the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL) to celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in a very original way. Read this news   Publication (pdf)

The Faculties of medicine come together to improve
First Nations and Inuit health status
Quebec, September 10, 2008 – Université Laval and the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL) officially launched earlier today the First Nations and Inuit Faculties of Medicine Program, during a ceremony held at Hôtel-Musée de Wendake. Read this news