Health and Wellness Program

James Smith Wellness Team

(Holistic Health Therapist, NNADAP, Family Wellness)

Focus is on community-based Holistic approach to individual, family and community wellness.

To develop best practices community based Holistic Health programs that will include prevention, intervention, follow up and community development components as determined by the people of the James Smith Cree Nation.
To continue to build and improve the wellness team.
To provide continued support and training to all health staff
To build a team of agencies/disciplines to address the needs of everyone in the community of James Smith Cree Nation
With community Input help to develop and implement community-based, culturally appropriate programs that address specific issues related to mental health/ addictions/family wellness
To develop links to specialized programming private, regional, provincial and federal
To develop a data base system for the collection of statistical information and the tracking of trends and patterns in order to make improvements
To periodically re-evaluate the needs, priorities and effectiveness of the program plans, updating and revising as necessary.
Community engagement which encourages and increases community participation in wellness activities.

Family Wellness, NNADAP, Youth Coordinator, Mental Health

During the 2012-2013 fiscal year the community wellness team consisting of NNADAP (Darryl Burns and Brenda Constant), Tiffany Sanderson (Youth Program Development Worker), Family Wellness (Wilma Burns) and the Holistic Health Therapists (Wanda Seidlikoski Yurach and Patti Cram), delivered programs and services to community members.
Demographics

Service Delivery

	Office	Home Visit	Facility	Totals
Individuals	402	223	313	938
Couples	6	28	0	34
Families	7	14	25	46
Groups	20		457	0
Totals	435	265	482	1018

Presenting Issues

Workshops/Retreats/Awareness Campaign

Self Care Presentation	8
Youth Cultural Camp	75
Family Retreat	13
Bullying Prevention	15
Grief and Loss Candle Light	5
Strategies to deal with self harming behavior BCCS	18
Conflict Resolution/lateral violence	26
Men’s Inner Child Retreat	7
Women’s Inner Child Retreat	8
National Addictions Awareness Week	200
Mental Health Awareness	400
Cultural Camp	60
	835

Self Care Workshop
The Self Care Workshop was held on May 7, 2012 at the John Godfrey Centre. Provided an overview of the impact of stress and strategies for self care.

Mental Health Awareness
A poster campaign was facilitated by the Holistic Health Therapists in July, 2012 which provided information on mental health awareness as well as suicide awareness.

Youth Camp
Camps were held August 7, 2012 to August 16, 2012 at Camp Tawow. A variety or workshops and presentations were made to the youth in attendance including: bullying prevention, suicide prevention, sexual health and wellness, leadership, healthy relationships etc.

Cultural Camp
Cultural Camp was held in July, 2012. Wellness team provided a bullying prevention presentation to youth during this camp.

Family Retreat
Held October 24, 2012 to October 26th, 2012 in Saskatoon. Four families were in attendance with 16 participants in total. Presentations included healthy communications and positive discipline. Also a variety of family activities and discussions took place during the retreat.

National Addictions Awareness Week
Held November 19th, 2012 to November 23, 2012 in the community of James Smith. Activities included a memorial walk, essay contest, candle light vigil and dry dance.

Conflict Resolution/Lateral Violence
Patti and Wanda Holistic Health Therapist’s facilitated a one day training workshop for BCCS staff in February, 2013 regarding conflict resolution and lateral violence prevention.

Self –Injury behavior
Wanda facilitated a workshop to BCCS staff regarding strategies for dealing with self-injuring behavior in January, 2013.

Health Fair
The wellness team set up a booth at the Health Fair at BCCS and provided information to individuals. Also Patti provided a workshop on suicide prevention. As well Wanda provided a workshop on Lateral Violence.

Overview of Youth Program

The Youth Development Worker was hired to implement programming for youth in the community. Tiffany M. Sanderson was hired to carry out this initiative.

Activities include, but are not limited to the babysitting course, a summer activities program, facepainting on Treaty Day, youth cultural camp, RAP training, coordinating the annual youth conference, helping with families night out, and carrying out the Youth Peacekeepers Program.

She also helped in administration, compiling the Annual Report, planning the staff retreat and organizing the Interagency Committee.