Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on 2SLGBTQ+ youth, we will outline barriers and offer suggestions to increase accessibility. We will provide strategies that can help providers engage, create, and maintain healthy and supportive relationships, that increase resilience and decrease isolation for youth. We will provide inclusive language suggestions, especially around bodies and pregnancy. Speaker - DENE GUILLAS Dene (he/him) […]

PRESENTATION:  In this session, Melissa Brown, Anishinaabe/Dine Midwife will share how to work towards providing culturally safe care for Indigenous families. She will review how to best center Indigenous families as active participants in their own care. Service providers will be introduced to the concepts of cultural safety, and understand the impact of developing an ongoing practice […]

One of the most devastating acts of colonization for Indigenous Peoples in Canada was the federal government’s implementation of the Indian Residential School system. For roughly seven generations, nearly every First Nations, Inuit and Metis child in Canada was interned in a residential school, in a futile attempt to assimilate and acculturate Indigenous Peoples into […]

Learn about sex, gender identity, expression, attraction and cultural identities and how to increase accessibility for all. We will provide strategies that can help providers engage, create, and maintain healthy & supportive relationships for 2SLGBTQ+ pregnant and parenting youth. Topics: Barriers & challenges, creating safe(r) spaces, inclusive data systems & policies/procedures, and language (especially around […]

Jordan's Principle ensures all First Nations children can access the products, services and supports they need, when they need them. It can help with a wide range of health, social and educational needs. Jordan's Principle is named in memory of Jordan River Anderson. He was a young boy from Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba. […]

This year, APIN is pleased to have Melissa Brown and Cecil Sveinson present, “Healthy Relationships/Healthy Parenting”. Melissa is an Anishinaabe/Dene registered midwife from Sagkeeng First Nation and the Navajo Nation. She is Co-founder of Zaagi’idiwin, an Indigenous led organization that strives to center Indigenous people as the experts of Maternal Child Health in their communities. Cecil […]

One of the most devastating acts of colonization for Indigenous Peoples in Canada was the federal government’s implementation of the Indian Residential School system. For roughly seven generations, nearly every First Nations, Inuit and Metis child in Canada was interned in a residential school, in a futile attempt to assimilate and acculturate Indigenous Peoples into […]

SPEAKER:  Rhonda Elias-Penner - Rhonda came to Thrive, then known as Pregnancy and Family Support Services, in spring of 2010 as an Applied Counselling student, working in the Resource Centre. After graduating with Honors, Rhonda was hired as the Community Support Worker for the summer program. In the fall of the same year, she was […]

“Anxiety and Youth” Many youth experience mental health disorders like anxiety. This presentation will include an overview of common anxiety disorders in youth and the potential origins and influences of these disorders. Social media, biology, awareness, all contribute to these experiences. A review of common treatment modalities will also be discussed including resources that can […]

Please join Leigha Phelps and Jennifer Sheridan Westdal from the Women’s Health Clinic Dragonfly Support Program to find out how we can help to support individuals and families who have experienced Pregnancy and Infant Loss.  To register, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/apin-lunch-and-learn-tickets-229086252147 Online – Go to Meeting Link: Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet […]

The western world has only begun to understand and honour Indigenous knowledge systems and views on Child Development. It is now time to reclaim Traditional Knowledge and provide the unique perspectives by our own people sharing Indigenous philosophies. Decolonization is the process of Reclaiming of who we are as Indigenous people; by reaching into our […]

Indigenous knowledges and practices are becoming a recognized and significant component of service delivery systems that support healing and wellness. Such practices are being incorporated and integrated throughout the work of helpers and healers in many Indigenous and mainstream organizations. This conference will draw on decolonizing methodologies and trauma informed approaches to discuss ways to […]