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Tele-Mental Health Service Newsletter Weechi-it-te-win Family Services, Inc. April 2015 Volume 1, Issue 1 Tele-Mental Health Service Newsletter Boozhoo, Wachay! Spring is finally here! Birds are singing, bears are coming out of their dens, geese are arriving, but as I started writing this morning we were welcomed with a huge snowfall after a couple weeks of very mild summer like weather. But, I’m not complaining, our winter was relatively warm, compared to most of our neighbors in the north. So, what better time is there to tell you all about what I’ve done, and some of the places to where I’ve gone during my first year as the Tele- Inside this issue Mental Health Service Coordinator for Service Area 6! If, after reading the newsletter you’d like to know more about the service, please Partnership with Agencies ......….2 contact me at (807)-274-3201 ext. 4056. Payukotayno Trip ...................….2 Working with Kenora Agencies….3 First Year Success! Poplar Hill Outreach ...................3 Cochrane District ........................4 The first year of the Tele-Mental Health Service was successful as a lot Kunuwanimano CFS ....................4 of outreach and partnership development had occurred. As a former Friendship Centres…………………...4 designated agency ourselves, my first goal was to meet with all other District School Board Northeast 4 former Ontario Child & Youth Telepsychiatry Program designated Minto Community Counselling...5 agencies in the Kenora and Cochrane Districts. I wanted to build a trusting, working relationship with these new partners of ours and I While Dining One Evening!....…..5 think this has definitely started to happen. Fort Severn First Nation…………...6 Washaho First Nation School…...6 I also met with several other agencies, and seen many interesting Tikinagan CFS…………………………..7 landmarks and other attractions this past year while doing my KO and Weechi Open House…….7 outreach. Throughout this newsletter you will see many of my Leaving Fort Severn……………….…7 outreach pictures. All First Nations………………….…….8 For the first time ever, school boards and Friendship Centres from All Agencies in Service Area….…..9 within our Districts have begun to make referrals to the Tele-Mental Looking Ahead!.........................10 Health Service for Team Program Consults and Individual Clinical Consults, and agencies from across the districts were able to experience Tele-Mental Health Education Seminars for the very first time. Partnership Development 2 This phase of the 1st year of my position a pleasure to work with. as Tele-Mental Health Service Coordinator The same now goes with Sioux Lookout was crucial as I needed to meet various First Nation Health Authority/Nodin and agencies and inform them of what the the remote First Nations. Hana Beitl does Tele-Mental Health Service is all about. exceptional work for their agency and I During this phase, I was to develop with think we have a good partnership. I still these agencies, clear pathways for the need to meet with more First Nations and publicly funded mental health providers their physician group to further promote who help and care for Aboriginal, Metis, Tele-Mental Health in the Sioux Lookout Urban Aboriginal, and Inuit children and Zone. youth in rural, remote, and underserved areas. My other meeting with an agency who coordinates Tele-Psychiatry in Service Our working relationship with Kenora Area 6 took place in Moosonee. I met with Rainy River District Child & Family Payukotayno James & Hudson Bay Child & Services, and Firefly Northwest Mental Family Services Mental Health Team and Health Supervisors and Case Managers Supervisors. We also established a clear have always been solid, so meeting with pathway for referrals for Tele-Mental I took this picture outside the hotel in them were a breeze and we formed Health. Moose Factory. The bay flies were clear pathways right away. Their Tele- terrible that day! (and evening) Psychiatry Coordinators have always been Payukotayno Trip This was a fun and adventurous trip for Dr. Braunberger and I. We started out leaving from Thunder Bay, and landing in Toronto. Then departing Toronto for Timmins, then finally arriving in Moosonee at 5 pm to be greeted by Susanna Klumpenhouwer from Payukotayno! After a long day of travel we caught the boat taxi over to Moose Factory to check into the Hotel. We had a supper and sat in the library and had coffee. The next morning we walked over to the Weeneebayko Hospital in Moose Factory and met with the Nurse and Telemedicine Coordinator to introduce ourselves and tell them about the Tele-Mental Health Service. The bay flies were horrible! Since then the Tele-Mental Health Referral Form has been put into their database. We then caught the boat taxi back to Moosonee to meet with the Payukotayno team for the rest of the day until our departure at 5:00. It was great to meet them and develop our initial building blocks for what was going to be a great first year of working together. We caught the flight back to Timmins, and then to Toronto, where our flight was delayed for 4 hours! Dr. Braunberger caught a few zzz’s and we finally arrived in Thunder Bay at 4:30 am local time. It was truly an unforgettable experience. 2 2 3 Poplar Hill Outreach This was the first of many outreach trips that I was to go on last Summer, and a lot of planning had to go into it. Arrangements were made by some of KO eHealth’s Telemedicine staff as well as me and my coworkers on making this trip successful. We connected with Tikinagan Child and Family Services Poplar Hill Team and travelled up on Tina Kakepetum Schultz, KO Health Director, Myself, Fred Sky (Program Manager for Tikinagan Poplar Hill, and Pikangikum), and Orpah McKenzie, Director of KO eHealth Services ready to board a flight to Poplar Hill First Nation. Working with Kenora Agencies Working with the agencies in the Kenora District has been awesome so far. There is still so much work that needs to be done though, but I think we have made some progress. This district is huge, and I have found that people do things very differently across the regions. There are varying customs, cultures, languages, dialects, and levels of remoteness. Mental health needs are two charters. (Ours being a tiny yellow increasing in this, and all regions of our catchment area, and this is what makes 4-seater) We brought many treats and building positive working relationships extremely important. goodies to present to the leadership Over the last year I have developed a strong working relationship with and membership of the community, Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) eHealth, Telemedicine, and Clinical including KFC, salads and pop, Departments in order to gain a bit of a better understanding of the needs of the First Nations they service. I have travelled to Muskrat Dam, Poplar Hill, Lac materials for sewing, food trays, and Seul, and Fort Severn and met with 25 First Nation Health Directors, with the pots and pans. All of our meetings in ladies of KO and couldn’t be more grateful for their knowledge of these the community were successful and communities. since then, there have been quite a few I work and communicate almost daily with Hana Beitl, Telemedicine referrals for Tele-Mental Health. This Coordinator of Sioux Lookout First Nation Health Authority-Nodin (SLFNHA) who coordinates for all First Nations in the Sioux Lookout Zone. We developed was a great experience and I am a referral process that works very well, and she is the go-to person for SLFNHA grateful for what Tina, Orpah, clients and case managers. I like that whenever I’m in Sioux Lookout, I can stop Tikinagan Child & Family Services, and in her office just to have coffee so that we can visit and catch up. the communities themselves have Another partner is Firefly, who is based out of many sub-offices in the Kenora taught me about this and other District. Their new Telemedicine Coordinator is Margaret Vermette from the communities, when it comes to Red Lake3 office and Dani Vahovick has trained her well. This agency and their case managers do incredible work for the children and youth they serve! Their engaging. mental health professionals are great at what they do and are always willing to go above an beyond for their clients. 4 Kunuwanimano Child Cochrane District & Family Services There are so many mental health Cochrane, the clinician at Minto Kunuwanimano services agencies in this district and navigating Community Clinic gave me directions it would be difficult if I wasn’t to Taykwa Tagamou First Nation and I eleven First Nations with supplied with a starting point. was able to give information three of these being in And these agencies have such packages to the staff members there. our Service Area. These knowledgeable people employed for them that meeting with them in three First Nations are person was the chance of a lifetime. I Wahgoshig First Nation, was able to meet the staff, and present the service to Kunuwanimo Taykwa Tagamou First Child and Family Services at two of Nation, and Constance their offices and also went to several Lake First Nation. During Friendship Centres. I had the opportunity to introduce the Tele- this particular road trip, I Mental Health Service to the Mental met teams in Constance Health Lead and Mental Health Nurse at the District School Board Ontario Lake, and a main office in Northeast office in Timmins. This View of the painting about “Inclusion” Timmins. road trip took me fairly close to the on the lobby wall of the Timmins Native Quebec border as, when I went to Friendship Centre Friendship Centre Meetings and Presentations Meeting with Friendship Centre staff is always fun, but over the last year, meeting with some of these teams were especially memorable, especially down east as I know I might not get a chance to meet them again in person.
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