First Nations Mental Wellness Framework, Health Sci   Public Health Program, University of Leth
Channel: National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education
Date: 10/12/2019

"...ingenious and western both of them have many ways of knowing. Look at the initial, we have the community are struggling with suicide. We stand back and talk to community people and try to understand what's going on, and then also try to look at the big picture...Indigenous education has to sort of help people move between this world. So we can do a better job..." Western liner model is not working very well, its need to move to spiral or circular model of health and how these things feedback with each other. This program is inspired by mental wellness continuum which was created by the Thunderbird Partnership foundation partnership in Ontario – it is called the First Nations Mental Wellness continuum Framework. This model looks like how we can work with communities and communities can work on all their wellness. The center of this model is really focused on HOPE belonging meaning and purpose. Around of the model like, the ecological model gets larger and larger and includes different components of the life cycle and then this model move into different types of health programming like crisis response earlier identification and intervention, health promotion and prevention support and aftercare, trauma and treatment and care planning integrated service delivery for example, as this is the focus of the model, then it moves how the practitioner do that, how the indigenous people do that self-permit way, how do they measure performance and how do they look at governance of this program and their initiated research and look for development.

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