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Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Northwest Territories"
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(Filtered by Theme "Investments in Indigenous Healing Centres")
April 1, 2024
Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation celebrating seven years
APTN News: Healing can happen in the bush. So says the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation of Yellowknife, which is celebrating seven years of operation. Its land-based camp has been helping Métis, Inuit and Dene clients from remote communities in three territories who are struggling with addiction. “Four hours sometimes I spend with one person,” says Dene-Métis...
July 14, 2023
Dene Wellness Warriors seek to build NWT trauma healing lodge
A group that provides therapy and trains Indigenous counsellors hopes to establish a new trauma healing lodge in the Northwest Territories. Ollie Williams· Roy Erasmus at a Northern Indigenous Counselling Program graduation ceremony in 2022. Emily Blake/Cabin Radio Dene Wellness Warriors, founded by Roy and Jean Erasmus, introduced an Indigenous counselling diploma program to the North three...