Partnership
with the Pine Tree Native Centre of Brant in developing
and maintaining a foot care clinic.
Partnership with the Pine Tree Native
Centre of Brant in the development of a sterile needle
exchange for Brantford area, referrals to Pine Tree's
programs, antenatal, substance use, anger management,
personal counseling, court/probation support, and Hepatitis
B immunization.
Liaison with Pine Tree Native Centre's
Long-Term Care Program, volunteer medical transportation
program.
Partnership with the Brantford Public
Health Department in the development of sterile needle
exchange for the Brantford area, provision of condoms,
provision of onsite/offsite anonymous HIV testing and
Hepatitis C proposal.
Partnership with Southern Ontario
Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (SOADI) and Pine Tree Native
Centre of Brant for a walking program.
Partnership with the Native Women's
Centre in the provision of Primary care services (episodic
illness), Health Promotion presentations, Hepatitis B/C
screening and TB screening.
Partnership with Hamilton Regional Indian
Centre in providing referrals to antenatal/parenting/substance
use/anger management programs, Health Promotion presentations.
Partnership with Hamilton Regional Indian
Centre's Long-Term Care Program in providing foot care. |
Partnership
with Niwasa Headstart Preschool in the provision of vision/hearing/speech/screening.
Partnership with the Hamilton Board of Education for the
provision of youth program services in Hamilton schools.
Parnership with Alternatives for Youth
in provision of youth programs and services.
Partnership with COAST in developing
a crisis line and in accessing their crisis line.
Partnership with the Wesley Centre in
Providing Foot Care Services for the homeless and underhoused,
with a concentration on the diabetic populations.
Presently developing a link with the
Urban Core CHC chiropodist.
Partnership with Hamilton Wentworth
Social and Public Health Services in the provision of
Hepatitis B vaccine for appropriate clients, provision
for condoms and in the provision of anonymous HIV testing.
Partnership with Durham Police in the
Needle Exchange Program.
Partnership with McMaster University
(member on President's Committee).
Executive Directors of De dwa da dehs
nye>s, Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre discuss
as required means to improve services for Aboriginal street
population.
Partnership with the Community Health
Representative for Gane Yohs Health Centre, Six Nations
of the Grand River Reserve to provide advocacy related
services.
Partnership with the Six Nations of
the Grand River Reserve via seat on the Aboriginal Advocacy
Committee. |
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Partnership
with the Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
in the development of a Domestic Abuse Expansion
Project, community development.
Partnership
with Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation (HHSC)
via seat on the Aboriginal Advocacy Committee.
The HHSC is also represented on the De dwa da
dehs nye>s Board of Directors.
Working
relationship with the HHSC in establishing a process
for advocacy access to area hospitals and staff
training activities on native cultural sensitivity
training.
Linkages
and collaboration with Six Nations and New Credit
Reserves as swell as Hamilton and Brantford area
hospitals and service providers via Aboriginal
Health Advocacy Committee.
Liaison
with various hospitals within first Nations communities
(i.e. Weeneekbayko Hospital, moose Factory, Ontario)
via Advocacy Program Coordinator.
Advocacy
Program Coordinator works closely with the Southwestern
Patient Advocate (Ontario Aboriginal Patient Advocacy
Initiative).
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Networking
and linkages with the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre's
Life Long Care Program.
Network with and provide support
to Aboriginal Frontline workers via Aboriginal Frontline
Worker's Advocacy Networking Group. Members include:
McMaster University, Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing,
Metis Nation of Ontario, Urban Native Homes Inc.,
Hamilton Regional Indian Centre, Native Women's
Centre, Mohawk College, Niwasa Aboriginal Headstart
preschool, Brantford Native Housing, St. Matthew's
House and De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health
Centre.
Partnership with Wesley Centre
in working with street people.
Partnership with Urban Native
Homes Inc. an various health and socio-economic
service agencies in assessing Long-Term Care Facility
needs for Aboriginal people living in the Hamilton-Wentworth
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The
challenge is never-ending as we work hard to develop and
deliver a variety of health services for Aboriginal people
at our De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre.
Our programs have been geared to the following areas:
primary care which includes traditional healing as well
as physician and nurse practitioner services; advocacy
services; outreach services; health promotion and education.
We continually think about theses services in the context
with the aboriginal community that we serve, we realize
that the low health status of our aboriginal clients continues
to be a major barrier for the healing and wellness, however
our organizations resolve to improve the wellness of Aboriginal
people grows stronger each day. 
Our
services focus on wholistic healing. We offer our Aboriginal
clients a choice of culturally appropriate western medicine
and/or traditional healing. Our Health Centre serves the
urban and rural Aboriginal populations off-reserve, while
complementing and augmenting existing services offered
by both mainstream and Native organizations. Our programs
and services have been developed to improve the physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual health of the Aboriginal
people in our catchment area.