PROGRAM
Comprehensive Health, Wellness, and Support Services in Fort Chipewyan
Providing coordinated medical, community, and wellness programs to support every stage of life.
Home Care
The Home & Community Care Program promotes a coordinated system of home and community-based health care services that enable people with disabilities, chronic or acute illnesses and the elderly to receive the care they need in their homes and communities.
Treatment Services
Treatment Services Program provides medically necessary primary health and clinical care services through a collaborative nurse led delivery model as a first point of medical contact for residents and families of Fort Chipewyan.
Public Health Care
Public Health Care provides several services to the families of Fort Chipewyan:
- Communicable Disease Control reduces communicable disease risk by health education, delivering an immunization program, participating in influenza and emergency preparedness plans
- HIV/AIDS Prevention Program strives to reduce the incidence and spread of HIV/AID through the promotion o healthy lifestyle choices
- Safe Drinking Water Program promotes and monitors safe drinking water quality in Fort Chipeywan as per the mandatory requirements to protect the public health of community residents.
Healthy Child Development
Health Child Development Program
Provides several services to mothers and children of Fort Chipewyan
Healthy Living
Nunee offers the following programs:
Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative strives to reduce the rate of diabetes by empowering the community through information and strengthening linkages to increase health promotion activities.
Nutrition North Program provides nutrition education initiatives that follow the guiding principles and supports community implementation such as the Good Food Box Program.
Wellness
The Wellness Programs at Nunee provides several mental wellness and culturally sensitive activities to all residents of this community and help manage, promote mental wellness in a supportive, caring and trusting environment where all individuals feel safe and welcome. The team collaborates with community partners and external service providers to ensure that residents have access to a myriad of support.
- Counselling and Therapy provides one-on-one support for issues related to mental health and wellness. Support can be accessed in person or by phone. Wellness staff are available to support local and provincial community crises.
- Substance Use Support and Referral provides support to Fort Chipeywan residents to reduce the incidences of alcohol, drug abuse and addictive behavior by addressing healing holistically inclusive of Indigenous lifestyles. Workers can help complete addiction assessments and referrals to Treatment Centers and provide pre-and post-treatment support.
- Support and educational groups including Lifeskills and Wellbriety are provided by the Wellness Team. Staff support community members in accessing virtual groups including AA, NA and Al-Anon.
- Suicide Prevention Program promotes mental health wellness, strengthens protective factors and decreases risk factors to prevent suicides by enhancing community education and awareness on suicide risk factors and fostering collaboration between providers and agencies to enhance prevention efforts.
- Indian Residential School Health Support Program ensures that all former residents of Indian Residential Schools and their families have access to appropriate level of mental wellness, emotional and cultural support. The team coordinates with community partners to organize events and activities to raise awareness of important issues including Missing, Murdered and Exploited Indigenous Peoples and Truth and Reconciliation. The team supports individuals in accessing traditional healing. Healers are brought in to offer services to this community.
- Land Based and Cultural Activities are shared at Nunee’s Fraser Bay site. Traditional activities and land-based learning bring youth, elders and the community together.
Medical Transportation
The Medical Transportation program ensures that eligible Fort Chipeywan residents reach the specialists, hospitals and other essential health services not available locally.
Administration
Administration includes the below corporate functions:
Nunee’s finance function is responsible for managing the organization’s financial resources. Its activities include the recording and payment of employees and vendors, budgeting, accounting, financial reporting &analysis and cash flow analysis and forecasting. It ensures financial stability and efficiency
Human Resources focuses on the organization’s employees. This includes hiring, training, compensation analysis, payroll processing and updating and enforcing HR policies. It ensures an adequate and productive workforce to achieve Nunee’s goals.
Maintenance’s responsibility is ensuring that the building, machines and vehicles are in good operating order and can deliver the expected performance. It includes the servicing, repair, modification inspection and condition verification