New money for culturally-grounded mental health and addiction programs in the Sudbury region – CBC
1.8M over three years will expand land-based treatment co-ordinated by Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre
Apr 10, 2018
The provincial government is committing $1.8 million to expand and develop culturally-grounded treatment of Indigenous people with mental health and addiction problems in the Sudbury region.
The money funds a proposal submitted by the Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre in Sudbury.
Executive Director Angela Recollet says the programming is open to anyone in Sudbury who identifies as Indigenous, as well as community members in Henvey Inlet, Magnetewan and Wahnapitae First Nations.
“This is going to approach mental health in a culturally-grounded format. Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre along with all of our sector partners in the province, there’s ten aboriginal health access centres, three aboriginal CHC’s, our whole model of care is based on culture as treatment,”
