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Mandate
The mandate of the Joint Management Committee is the implementation and management of the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy, which is comprised of two distinct yet interrelated initiatives – the Aboriginal Family Healing Strategy and the Aboriginal Health Policy.
Support Family Healing:
- Involves both immediate and long-term strategies to support
the healing of Aboriginal individuals (both abused and abusers), families and communities, to reduce the level of violence experienced and to re-build healthy relationships.
- Community awareness, education and the promotion of healthy/balanced, and equitable traditional roles and relationships;
- Crisis intervention for women and children at risk;
- Counselling; and
- Addressing the underlying mental/emotional issues that contribute to violence and dysfunction.
Improve Aboriginal Health:
- Improve access to health services and overall health status through:
- Health education, promotion and outreach;
- Disease and illness prevention and management;
- Primary health care and services; and,
- Crisis intervention (to respond to high rates of suicide) and substance/solvent abuse prevention and treatment.
Promote Networking:
- Establishing and/or strengthening linkages, policies, procedures and effective communication amongst and between programs and services at the community, regional, provincial and federal levels to facilitate change.
- At the service level, networking occurs between communities and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal service providers, key individuals, formal and informal groups to:
- Provide support and learning through the sharing of experiences.
- Enhance continuity, promote awareness of existing resources and increased accountability.
- Fosters maximum use of existing resources and increased accountability, and
- May involve development of formal protocols.
- Networking also occurs between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal leadership.
Facilitation of Community Development and Integration:
of programs and services within the context of respecting Aboriginal autonomy and strengthening Aboriginal capacity to rebuild healthy communities to improve access to programs and services.
Involves engaging in community development activities, such as:
- Training and joint program planning, development and delivery;
- Articulating and implementing Aboriginal-appropriate and/or professional standards and ethical codes for AHWS workers and programs, including processes to address issues and hold individuals, boards and leadership accountable; and
- Creation/improvement of an awareness among leadership on how they may be helpful to the healing process.
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