Ontario health providers collaborate to provide culturally-relevant mental wellness services to Indigenous peoples – TheRecord.com

Aug. 11, 2020

Atlohsa Family Healing Services and St. Joseph’s Health Care London are in the third year of a three-year pilot program to transform mental health services for the Indigenous peoples of the London-Middlesex and St. Thomas-Elgin region of Ontario.

“Biigajiiskaan: Indigenous Pathways to Mental Wellness” has a mandate to deliver a blend of holistic, Indigenous health and wellness practices in tandem with western medical care.

“Historically, our people have had difficulties in any type of western institution that only incorporates western modalities of program or service delivery, and hospitals are certainly one of those institutions where our people have suffered a lot of trauma,” said Raymond Deleary, executive director of Atlohsa Family Healing Services.

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