CLOSING THE CIRCLE - SUMMER 2018

 

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Welcome

 

ehkisatek! It is hot and sunny in the traditional territories of the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation, upon which the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH) is located. The surrounding forests are abound with huckleberries, saskatoons, and blueberries, enough for feasting bears and humans alike. As we enjoy the bounty of these summer months, we at the NCCAH continue to grow our resources, networks, and partnerships. I am very pleased to share some of this work with you.

 

Along with other NCCAH staff, I have traveled across Canada to share our work, knowledge and resources, and expand our partnerships and collaborations. These events included the Canadian Association of Health Sciences Deans Annual Conference (Prince George, May 8, 2018), the Igniting the Fire: Honouring Culture, Language & Tradition in First Nations Education conference (Winnipeg, May 9-11, 2018), the First Nations Research Ethics and Knowledge Exchange into Action Summer Institute (Winnipeg, May 1-5, 2018), the Public Health Reconciliation, Starting from Within event (Toronto, May 22, 2018), Public Health 2018 conference (Montreal, May 28-31, 2018), the Canadian Paediatric Society 95th Annual Conference (Quebec City, May 31- June 2, 2018), the Canada and Global Public Health: Moving from Strategy to Action conference (Winnipeg, June 12-13, 2018), the Health Equity Network of the Americas 2018 Webinar Series, and the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (New York, July 16-18, 2018). In the coming months, we will be attending the 2018 IGU Regional Conference - CAG Annual Meeting - NCGE Annual Conference (Quebec City, August 6-10, 2018), the Policy Studies Program's Inter-disciplinary Annual Health Policy, Programming and Practice Event (Toronto, September 19, 2018) and the Outdoor Play and Early Learning Policy Research Symposium (Toronto, October 24-26, 2018).

 

We continue to produce podcasts as part of our "Voices from the Field" series. Most recently, we released the seventh in this series, Turning a new page: cultural safety, critical creative literary interventions, truth and reconciliation, and the crisis of child welfare with Dr. Sarah de Leeuw and Rick Harp. Stay tuned for our next podcast featuring a conversation on Indigenous research with Dr. Linda Tuhuwai Smith and Bonnie Healy. Also watch for more information on the upcoming fall webinar Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City, organized in partnership with the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP).

 

We have also participated on a number of working groups to support health equity initiatives in Canada and globally, including the Canadian Institute of Child Health's Expert Advisory Committee to develop Module 7 on the Health of Indigenous Children and Youth and the Canadian Women in Global Health Working Group in their work to highlight and showcase Canadian women leaders at home and abroad in a letter recently published by the Lancet.

 

In closing, I would like to acknowledge our 4000+ Twitter followers! Please continue to enjoy and share our knowledge resources with your community and networks, and if you have not already done so, join us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Vimeo, YouTube, SoundCloud, Pinterest, or ISSUU to participate in updates as they happen! Be sure to visit our website or subscribe to our mailing list to receive notifications of newly released NCCAH resources, upcoming webinars and our regular quarterly newsletters. If you are interested in knowing about any of our publications, please see our Resources Booklet.

 

On behalf of all the staff at the NCCAH, I hope you enjoy the summer months ahead.

 

Meegwetch

 

Margo Greenwood, Academic Leader
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)

 

 

 

Attended Events

Upcoming Events

 

MFNERC Lighting the Fire Conference

 

Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 8-9.
Conference web site link


 

CPHA Public Health 2018

 

Montreal, Quebec, May 28-31.
Conference web site link


 

Canadian Paediatric Society 95th Annual Conference

 

Quebec city, Quebec, May 30 - June 2.
Conference web site link


 

Canada and Global Public Health: Moving from Strategy to Action

 

Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 12-13.
Conference web site link


 

Health Inequalities Data Tool Webinar

 

Online, June 18.
Data tool link

 


 

2018 IGU Regional Conference - CAG Annual Meeting - NCGE Annual Conference

 

Quebec City, Quebec, August 6-10, 2018. Conference web site link

 

 

 
 

CIPHI National AEC

 

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, September 16-19, 2018. Conference web site link


 

3rd Annual Health Policy Conference

 

Toronto, Ontario, September 19, 2018.
Conference web site link


 

Outdoor Play & Early Learning Policy Research Invitational Symposium

 

Toronto, Ontario, October 24-26, 2018.
Symposium web site link


 

Please visit the online NCCAH calendar of events, which highlights conferences, workshops, and other events of interest in the field of Indigenous Health including regional, national and global listings.

 

Send us an email to nccah@unbc.ca with "Calendar Submission" in the subject line if you have an event you would like added to our calendar.

 

 

 

New NCCAH Resources

 

Voices from the Field - Episode 07 - Turning a new page: cultural safety, critical creative literary interventions, truth and reconciliation, and the crisis of child welfare

 

This episode of "Voices from the Field" is based on the article, Turning a new page: cultural safety, critical creative literary interventions, truth and reconciliation, and the crisis of child welfare, co-authored by Drs. Sarah de Leeuw and Margo Greenwood, of the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH). The podcast is an extended conversation between Sarah and Rick Harp of Media Indigena to explore cultural safety, the arts and creative expressions as offering up solutions for decolonizing the child welfare system.

 

Listen to the podcast

 

 

Voices from the Field - Episode 07 - Turning a new page: cultural safety, critical creative literary interventions, truth and reconciliation, and the crisis of child welfare

 

 


 

Children and Their Vision: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know

 

Children rarely complain when they have vision problems because they don't know that their vision isn't normal. They think that everyone sees the world the way they do. Parents and teachers have an important responsibility to recognize the signs of vision problems in order to identify children who need a complete eye examination.

 

Children and Their Vision: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know contains accessible information about why establishing comprehensive eye care early in life is important for a child's long term development.

 

This booklet is an update of the 2013 version, both created in collaboration with The National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH), the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO) and the Vision Institute of Canada.

 

Read the booklet

 

 

Children and Their Vision: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know

 

 

Request NCCAH Knowledge Resources

 

Did you know you can request NCCAH publications free of charge? Send your request to us by filling out the "Request this Publication" form found at the bottom of each online publication page, indicate how many copies you'd like, a note about how you will utilize the resource, your name and mailing address. We will do our best to accommodate your request based on our current available printed inventory. If you have multiple publication requests, please use the "Publication Request" text link found in the top right hand corner of the NCCAH web site.

 

Do you have a particular NCCAH publication that you or your organization found to be an excellent resource? If so, we would appreciate you letting us know what it was and how you found it useful, by filling out the "Publication Feedback" form. We welcome your feedback.

 

All NCCAH materials can be reproduced in whole or in part with appropriate attribution and citation. These materials are to be used solely for non-commercial purposes. To measure the impact of these materials, we would appreciate your informing us of their use by filling out the "Publication Use Notification" form, including information about whether you distributed the resource to others, quoted it or cited it.

 

How to use the ISSUU reader and request NCCAH publications

 

The NCCAH responsive web site utilizes a customized responsive PDF reader from the digital content platform ISSUU. Web site visitors can now read, search within, download, and easily share NCCAH knowledge resources without leaving the web site. We have created an overview document to explain the different ISSUU reader tools and provide instructions on how to order single or multiple publications from the NCCAH web site.

 

Read the instructions | View ISSUU on the NCCAH Facebook page

 

 

Online Resources

 

In support of creating a health community focused on knowledge synthesis, transfer and exchange we have chosen a sampling of current online resources to share. Please note the links provided in the NCCAH newsletters are for general interest only and do not indicate an endorsement. The views expressed in the linked resources do not necessarily represent the views of the NCCAH or our funder the Public Health Agency of Canada.

 

Send us an email to nccah@unbc.ca with "Online Resource" in the subject line if you have an online resource you would like added to our next newsletter.

 

 

Matters of Life and Death:
Public Health Issues in Canada
by A. Picard

 
 

Inuktitut magazine, Issue 123,
Spring 2018

 
 

Summer 2018
Tusaayaksat Magazine

 

 

Cultural Survival Quarterly - Indigenous Youth Leading the Way, Vol. 42, Issue 2, June 2018

 
 

International Indigenous Policy Journal (IIPJ), Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2018

 
 

First Peoples Child & Family Review, Vol 12, No 2 (2018): Special Issue
by Children and Youth

 

 

Turning a new page: cultural safety, critical creative literary interventions, truth and reconciliation, and the crisis of child welfare by S. de Leeuw and M. Greenwood

 
 

Indigenous Mentorship Network of the Pacific Northwest (IMN-PN) Newsletter, August 2018

 
 

National Aboriginal Diabetes Association (NADA) Newsletter,
July 2018

 

 

Caring Society Newsletter,
Summer 2018

 
 

Aboriginal Insight National Newsletter, Summer 2018

 
 

First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) eBlast - August, 2018

 

 

Lowitja Institute - Engaging First Peoples: A Review of Government Engagement Methods
for Developing Health Policy

 
 

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Inuit Statistical Profile 2018

 
 

Our Health Counts - Urban Indigenous Health Database Project Inuit Adults

 

 

Toolkit: Social participation of Indigenous Elders and intergenerational solidarity: a scoping review of their contribution and their influence on individual and community wellness

 
 

Working Together: Lessons Learned from the Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention (CLASP) Initiative in Supporting Indigenous Health and Wellness

 
 

Pan-Canadian Health Inequalities Reporting (HIR) Initiative - Key Health Inequalities in Canada: A National Portrait

 

 

Government of Canada - Health Inequalities Data Tool

 
 

Angus Reid Institute - Truths of reconciliation: Canadians are deeply divided on how best to address Indigenous issues

 
 

2018 Spring Reports of the Auditor General of Canada to the Parliament of Canada - Report 5: Socio-economic Gaps on First Nations Reserves - Indigenous Services Canada

 

 

Online Multimedia

 

This section features infographics, interactives, apps or videos that we found interesting or educational. Please note the links provided in the NCCAH newsletters are for general interest only and do not indicate an endorsement. The views expressed in the linked resources do not necessarily represent the views of the NCCAH or our funder the Public Health Agency of Canada.

 

Send us an email if you have multimedia resources you would like included in our next newsletter to nccah@unbc.ca with "Multimedia Submission" in the subject line.

 

 

1) CBC News - Indigenous: In this video Elder Roberta Price describes the healing powers of language. The video is featured in the article "Indigenous health care workers use language to build trust and break down barriers" by Jonathan Ventura and Annie Rueter.

 

2) The video "Indigenous health inequities", with UVic's Charlotte Loppie, describes her research and work with students studying Indigenous health inequities, Indigenous HIV/AIDS issues and the social determinants of Indigenous health.

 

3) APTN Series - The series "1491: The Untold Story of the Americas before Columbus" is presented from an Indigenous-perspective and journeys through history from 20,000 years ago to 1491.

 

4) CBC News - The interactive map "Did you live near a residential school?" allows users to explore by dates and locations to learn about residential schools that existed across Canada. Individual residential school survivor stories are also featured with this interactive.

 

5) Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) - The Inuit Nunangat Taimannganit two-year storytelling project now has fourteen videos in the collection. The videos share stories about connections to the land and sea, legends and histories that celebrate Inuit resilience, knowledge and love of the land.

 

6) The Canadian Press - In this video artist Lita Fontaine discusses "The Resilience Project", which is putting the work of 50 Indigenous women artists on billboards across Canada.

 

 

 

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