MISSION STATEMENT
To promote and support the empowerment of
Anishinabe life by providing holistic healing and wellness
services by:
- Providing counseling;
- Education and training
in community development
- Crisis intervention
services
- Cultural restoration
and Traditional Healing
- Being a specialized
resource to communities
BACKGROUND:
Nodin Counseling Services through
SLFNHA has been over seeing the provision of mental health
services since 1994 to First Nations clients. Mental Health
services for children and youth formally
under the family counseling
unit of Tikinagan Child and Family Services, were formally
transferred to Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority in
April of 2002.
Formed in response to the
Coroner’s Inquest into the tragic suicide of a young girl in our
area, the NCFI Joint Management Committee assisted with the
strategic planning for comprehensive mental health services,
both non residential and future residential care, mental health
services. The Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
oversees the implementation of current work plans and the
development of strategic work plans as proposed in a five year
work plan.
Activities and Issues:
Listed below
are new directions which have emerged since 2002:
- Creation of the mission
statement and guiding principles for the enhanced services.
- Integration of NCFI infrastructure i.e..
Intake, database, file management, procedures & forms.
- Development of mental health
preventative programming such as the family treatment models
in that will be applicable for implementation in the Northern
Communities.
- Creation of a single point
of entry system referrals (Ongoing).
- Focus on continuation of care for clients
- Hospital Based Services
