Thursday, November 20, 2014

7:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast Colony Ballroom and Foyer

8:00 Opening Ceremony and Welcome Colony Ballroom

8:30 Justice Murray Sinclair: Colony Ballroom Truth and Reconciliation Commission

9:30 Dr. Evan Adams: Transforming Systems, Transforming Ourselves – an Update on the Health Authority in BC Colony Ballroom

10:15 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits

10:30 Workshop Session #1 Room

Suicide W01 Complementary Competencies Through Lombard Prevention Collaboration for First Nations and Mainstream Addictions 2nd Floor Managers and Workers Carol Hopkins, Robert Eves, Raymond Deleary National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Mental Health W02 Connecting the Dots: An Innovative Urban Aboriginal St. David Mental Health Project North Jessa Williams, Johanna Denduyf 3rd Floor Canadian Mental Health Association British Columbia Division, British Columbia Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres Women's W03 Supporting First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women to St. David Health Engage in Shared Decision Making: A Skill Building South Workshop 3rd Floor Janet Elizabeth Jull, Minwaashin Lodge, Dawn Stacey University of , Institute of Population Health, Minwaashin Lodge - The Aboriginal Women's Support Centre, University of Ottawa Traditional W05 Atikowisi miýw-ay¯awin, Ascribed Health and Elm Wellness, to Kaskitamasowin miýw-ay¯awin¯, Achieved 2nd Floor Health and Wellness: Shifting the Paradigm Madeleine Dion Stout, Elder Food security / W06 Evaluation of "Community-Led Food Assessment for St. Patrick nutrition Inuit Communities" model aimed at assessing and South addressing Food Security in Inuit Communities 3rd Floor Kristeen McTavish, Chris Furgal, Shantel Popp, Vinay Rajdev, Kristie Jameson Trent University, Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments, Trent University, Food Security Network of Newfoundland and Labrador

Cultural Safety WO7 “Don’t bother him, he’s probably just drunk”: Colony Advancing Indigenous Cultural Competency training in Ballroom Ontario 2nd Floor Vanessa Ambtman-Smith, Guy Hagar Provincial Aboriginal LHIN Network (PALN) South West Local Health Integration Network, Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) Health Systems W08 There Are Good Things Done Under the Midnight Sun Armoury Julie Lys, NP, Laura Lee Evoy, RN, Bandy Thompson, RN 2nd Floor Fort Smith Health & Social Services Authority / Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, Fort Smith Health & Social Services Authority Nursing W09 Collaborating for Cultural Safety in Nursing St. Patrick Education North Vivian Recollet, Pamela Walker 3rd Floor Native Men's Residence, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing University of Respiratory / W10 Heart and Stroke Foundation's Indigenous Health St. George cardio / Strategy 3rd Floor chronic disease Lesley James, Ratsamy Norman Pathammavong Heart and Stroke Foundation

11:30 Speaker TBA: National Aboriginal Women’s Association Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Colony Ballroom

12:30 Lunch and Posters Colony Ballroom / Documentary Civilized to Death will be shown Giovanni Room over lunch in the ballroom *courtesy of Ms. Kimlee Wong, Researcher Writer, APTN

1:30 Oral Presentations Room Women's O01 Gettin' F.O.X.Y.: Exploring the Development of Self- Lombard Health Efficacy among Young Women in the Northwest Territories 2nd Floor (including Using an Arts-based Sexual Health Intervention Reproductive Candice Lys and Violence) Institute for Circumpolar Health Research

O02 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women Nicole Johnstone Sherbourne Health Centre

O04 Internal and External "Risk" Constructions as Barriers to Birthing Choices for Indigenous Women: Findings from a Comparative Study in Northwestern Ontario Pamela Wakewich, Kristin Burnett, Martha Dowsley, Helle Moeller Departments of Indigenous Learning, Anthropology & Geography, Health Sciences, Sociology, Women's Studies, and Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Lakehead University Women's O05 Adapting HOME VISITING PROGRAMS in Aboriginal St. Patrick Health communities -Lessons learned from implementation North (including Faisca Richer, Michèle Boileau-Falardeau 3rd Floor Reproductive Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Agence canadienne de and Violence) santépublique and Children's O06 Spirit Runner: An activity app for Aboriginal youth Health Don Patterson Every Kid Deserves a Chance Inc. O07 Bridging the Knowledge Gap: A North-South Collaboration Marika Bellerose, Vera Nenadovic Health Canada - First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Hospital for Sick Children

O08 Healthy Teeth, Healthy Lives: Steps to Improve Inuit Children's Oral Health Tanya Nancarrow, Anna-Claire Ryan Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Mental Health O09 Methadone overdose death: Case study of a 52 year St. David (including old Métis woman North Substance Lynn F. Lavallee, Kelly A. Fairney 3rd Floor Abuse) Ryerson University

O10 ITS TIME: Indigenous Tools and Strategies on Tobacco Interventions Peter L. Selby, Rosa C. Dragonetti CAMH, CAMG

O11 Getting something out of (close to) nothing: self- designed Indigenous mental health learning experiences Alex Drossos McMaster University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

O12 Building Virtual Communities to End Isolation Peggy A. Shaugnnessy Whitepath Consulting Infectious O14 Root Cause Analysis of Premature Deaths in the Colony Disease Aboriginal Population in Toronto Ballroom and Chandrakant Shah, Rajbir Klair, Allison Reeves 2nd Floor Determinants Anishnawbe Health Toronto, Private Practitioner of Health (housing, O16 Determinants of Sexual Health in a Northern poverty, etc.) Community Dionne Gesink, Lana Whiskeyjack, Terri Suntjens, Alanna Mihic, Sherri Chisan , Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Blue Quills First Nations College

O13 The Outreach Planning & Exchange Network for HIV/STBBI Prevention Programs: An Overview Rick Harp National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID)

O15 Supporting Aboriginal Health Care Needs Through an Aboriginal Employment Program Steve Sxwithul'txw, Rod O'Connell Island Health ( Island Health Authority) Determinants O19 Exposure to methylmercury by consumption of fish St. David of Health and the risk for neurotoxicity in the developing fetus at South (housing, Walpole Island First Nation - changes from 1975 to 2014 3rd Floor poverty, etc.) Judy Peters, Gideon Koren, Michael J. Rieder, Mary Jane Tucker, and Rosemary Williams, Dean Jacobs, Phaedra Henley, Katherine Environmental Schoeman, Regna Darnell, Christianne V. Stephens, Carol P. Herbert,

Health Chandan Chakraborty, Bradley A. Corbett, Charles G. Trick, John R. Bend Chatham-Kent Community Health Centre, Walpole Island Office, Walpole Island Health Centre, Walpole Island Heritage Centre, Departments of Medicine, Paediatrics, Pathology, Physiology, Pharmacology, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Pathology, Family Medicine, Biology, and Science, Interfaculty Program in Public Health, Siebens-Drake Medical Research Institute, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University; Ivey School of Business, Western University; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University

O18 Enhancing Traditional, Healthy Food Skills in an Urban Aboriginal Community Jaime Cidro, Tabitha Martens University of , University of Manitoba

O20 Provision of Sleep Apnea Care in Saskatchewan: Policy Complexities Related to Registered Indian Status Tarun Katapally, Caroline Beck, Gregory P. Marchildon, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Sylvia Abonyi , Punam Pahwa, Mark Fenton, James Dosman Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre, University of Regina, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan Health Care O21 Reducing the Gap: Robotics technology increases St. Systems access for patients in Northern Saskatchewan Lawrence and Ivar Mendez, Veronica McKinney 3rd Floor Cultural University of Saskatchewan - also a presenter, University of Competency Saskatchewan and Safety O22 Institutional incompleteness in the urban Aboriginal health service infrastructure Kian Madjedi, Kevin FitzMaurice Laurentian University

O26 Wellness in our own words: Understanding the interconnected elements of Indigenous health through partnerships Kian Madjedi Laurentian University of Sudbury

O23 Aboriginal Cultural Safety Initiative Chandrakant Shah, Allison Reeves Anishnawbe Health Toronto

Cultural O24 Talking About Change: Understanding Colonial St. George Competency Rhetoric 3rd Floor and Safety Pamela Walker and Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto Traditional Ways and Self- O25 Enhancing Supportive Decision Making For Aboriginal determination Patients and Family Members Jenny Lynn Morgan, Anita Ho, Kim Taylor University of British Columbia O27 Cultural continuity is protective against diabetes in First Nations Richard Thomas Oster, Angela Grier, Rick Lightning, Mari Mayan, Ellen Toth , Piikani Blackfoot Nation, Ermineskin Cree Nation O28 Self-Determination in First Nations Communities Angela Mashford-Pringle University of Toronto Traditional O29 Mino-bimaadiziwin: Re-honoring the relational roots Armoury Ways and Self- of Indigenous food sovereignty 2nd Floor determination Michelle Daigle University of Washington

O30 The Toronto Aboriginal Health Advisory Circle: The Development of An Innovative Model of Self Determination Ellen M. Blais Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network , Toronto Central Lhins

O32 Nehiyaw Pimatisiwin: Sharings from Onihcikiskowapowin - Cultural interventions from a community-based research partnership with the University of Toronto James Makokis, Alsena White Saddle Lake Health Care Centre,

O31 wahkomakanak: Relationships and Language as Medicine Lana Whiskeyjack, Dionne Gesink, Alanna Mihic, Priscilla McGilvery Saddle Lake Cree Nation, University of Toronto, Blue Quills First Nations College

Indigenous O34 Community Based Participatory Research as a Path to Elm Research and Build Resilience 2nd Floor Population Kevin Donald Willison Health Data Lakehead University

O36 Telling Our Stories: Population Health Surveillance in Unama'ki Elaine Allison, Darlene Anganis, Stacey Lewis, Jennifer MacDonald, Sharon Rudderham, Laurie Touesnard Wagmatcook Health Centre, Membertou Wellness Home, Tui'kn Partnership, Waycobah Health Centre, Eskasoni Health Centre, Potlotek Health Centre

O35 Letting the Body Tell Its Story: Using Body Mapping and Hazard Mapping as Visual Representations of Community Well-Being in Indigenous Health Research Christianne V. Stephens, Linda Lou Classens York University, Walpole Island First Nation

2:30 Break

2:45 Dr. Janet Smylie Resisting Exclusion – Understanding and Supporting Colony Métis Growth and Empowerment Ballroom

3:30 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits

3:45 Workshop Session # 2 Room Mental Health W12 Homeless and Hopeless: An examination of Toronto's St. David Health and Addiction Services for Indigenous homeless North peoples and what can be done to improve them. 3rd Floor Suzanne Lea Stewart, Nicole Estella Elliott Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/ University of Toronto Determinants W13 The Work of Frontiers Foundation of Toronto Elm of Health Jim Bacque, Lawrence Gladue, Marco Guzmana, Don Irving 2nd Floor Frontiers Foundation of Toronto Traditional W14 Wii Kwan De Taa (Bringing People Together for a St. David Sacred Purpose South Lori Flinders 3rd Floor Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services Inuit W15 More than medicine: on being an ally and a physician St. Patrick advocate in Nunavut North Madeleine Cole 3rd Floor Qikiqtani General Hospital Respiratory/ W17 A History of Dying at Home From Pre-European St. George cardio/ chronic Times to the Present Palliative and End of Life Care Era 3rd Floor disease Dean Walters Central East Community Care Access Centre Equity W18 Jurisdiction as a Determinant of First Nations Health Lombard Care 2rd Floor Stephanie Ann Sinclair, Amanda Meawasige Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Education W19 I honestly don't think I learned anything about St. Patrick Indigenous peoples: Understanding medical school South preceptors' and students' current knowledge and attitudes 3rd Floor towards Indigenous peoples and Indigenous health Heather Castleden, Debbie Martin, Jeff Denis, Paul Sylvestre Queen's University, Dalhousie University, McMaster University Research W20 Respondent driven sampling (RDS) as a tool for Armoury urban Aboriginal health assessment and community 2nd Floor engagement in Ontario, Canada Michelle Firestone, Janet Smylie, Sara Wolfe, Constance McKnight Well Living House, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto , De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre

4:30 Break

4:45 Workshop Session #3 Room Health Systems W21 Community health worker models: International best Elm practices and their application to remote First Nations 2nd Floor communities Ben Chan, Janet Gordon, Sumeet Sodhi University of Toronto, Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority, Dignitas International Mental Health W22 An Indigenous Model of Effective Community Mental Lombard Health Services 2nd Floor Germaine Frances Elliott, John Rice Enaahtig Healing Lodge, Simcoe County Canadian Mental Health Association Children's W23 Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Inuit Children St. Patrick Health Dr. Anna Banerji North Department of Paediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, 3rd Floor University of Toronto Traditional W24 Understanding Tobacco Use Amongst Youth in Four Armoury First Nations 2nd Floor Sheila Cote-Meek, Sonia Isaac-Mann Laurentian University, Assembly of First Nations Inuit W25 Social Determinants of Inuit Health St. David Anna Fowler North Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) 3rd Floor Cancer W26 Reducing inequalities in cancer for Ontario First St. Nations: From surveillance to action Lawrence Loraine Marrett, Diane Nishri, Amanda Sheppard, Anna Chiarelli, 3rd Floor Alethea Kewayosh Cancer Care Ontario, Hospital for Sick Children Cultural Safety W27 Is cultural safety enough? Confronting racism to St. George address inequities in Indigenous health 3rd Floor Barry Lavallee, Linda Diffey, Thomas Dignan, Paul Tomascik University of Manitoba, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Equity W28 Manitoba First Nations Indicators of Wellbeing St. Patrick Leona Star, Kathi Avery Kinew South Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs 3rd Floor Education W29 Come walk in our mocassins: Strategies in St. David Recruitment, Admissions and Curriculum at the Aboriginal South Program at the University of Ottawa 3rd Floor Darlene Janet Kitty Aboriginal Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa Research W30 Creating a First Nations health data repository in Carlton Ontario by linking the Indian Register to ICES health 2nd Floor administrative data: a collaborative governance process that protects the interests of First Nations David Henry, Tracy Antone, Carmen Jones, Saba Khan Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Chiefs of Ontario

5:30 Reception Colony Ballroom

7:00 Adjourn

Friday, November 21, 2014

8:00 Communities to Researchers Advocacy Breakfast Discussion Chaired by Vanessa Ambtman-Smith and Dr. Lisa Richardson Colony Ballroom

9:00 Natan Obed: Improving Inuit Nunangat health outcomes Colony Ballroom - A call to action

9:45 Dr. Angeline Letendre: Indigenous Nursing and Colony Ballroom Nursing Knowledge as Practice toward Improved Health and Wellness in First Nation, Inuit and Metis Communities

10:30 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits

11:00 Workshop Session #4 Room Children's W31 The Status of Oral Health among Canada’s First Colony Health Nations Peoples and Inuit Ballroom Amir Azarpazhooh, Dick Ito, Martin Chartier, Tracey Guitard, 2nd Floor Hannah Tait Neufeld Faculty of Dentistry-University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine- University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital, Public Health Agency of Canada, Thunder Bay District Health Unit and Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit Women's W32 Trafficked: Why are Aboriginal Women at St. David Health Increased Risk? North Eileen McMahon 3rd Floor Mount Sinai Hospital Children's W33 No Jordan's Principle Cases in Canada? The Truth Armoury Health and Politics of Disparities in Access to Health and Social 2nd Floor Services for First Nations Children Living On-Reserve Vandna Sinha, Anne Blumenthal, Molly Churchill, Lucyna Lach, Nico Trocme McGill University, University of Michigan Traditional W34 An Investigation into some Contemporary Self- St. Patrick Regulatory Dynamics that Operate in and around First South Nations Traditional Healing Systems 3rd Floor Julian Robbins Independent Community Based Researcher Environmental W35 The potential contribution of exposure to Lombard persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and of psychosocial 2nd Floor stress to enhanced risk for Type 2 diabetes (T2D) at Walpole Island First Nation (WIFN) John R. Bend, Rosemary Williams, Gideon Koren, Michael J Rieder, Mary Jane Tucker, Naomi Williams, Phaedra Henley, Julie Hill, Zahra Jahedmotlagh, Regna Darnell, Christianne V. Stephens, Stan Van Uum, Carol P Herbert, Chandan Chakraborty, Dean Jacobs, Judy Peters, Charles G Trick Walpole Island Health Centre, Departments of Medicine and Paediatrics, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Walpole Island Heritage Centre, Department of Pathology, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Departments of Anthropology, Social Sciences and Pathology, McMaster University, Departments of Family Medicine and Pathology, Chatham-Kent Community Health Centre, Walpole Island Office, Department of Biology, Science and Interfaculty Program in Public Health, Siebens- Drake Medical Research Institute Cancer W36 Addressing gaps in the continuity of cancer care St. Patrick with and for First Nations, Inuit and Métis living in rural North and remote communities in Canada. 3rd Floor Colleen Patterson, Pam Tobin Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Cultural Safety W37 Clinical tips for culturally-safe care: A new St. George Consensus Guide for Health Professionals working with 3rd Floor First Nations, Inuit and Métis Alisha Nicole Apale SOGC Social work W39 Rahskwahseron:nis – Building bridges with Elm Indigenous communities through decolonizing social 2nd Floor work education Michael Loft, Nicole Ives, Courtney Montour McGill University, School of Social Work Research W40 Storytellers as Public Health Facilitators St. Patrick Joahnna Kathleen Berti, Jeanette Levall, David Osawabine South Debajehmujig Storytellers 3rd Floor

11:45 Lunch and Posters Documentary Rivers of Hope: “Bringing health to indigenous communities in the Orinoco and the Amazon in Colombia” will be shown over lunch Colony Ballroom / *courtesy of Pan American Health Organization Giovanni Room (PAHO/WHO), funded by the Canada- Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Department.

1:00 Genocide: The Canadian Perspective Panel Dr. Michael Dan, Chief Phil Fontaine, Mr. Bernie M. Farber Colony Ballroom

2:15 Workshop Session #5 Room Substance W41 Prescription Drug Misuse - Looking at Prevention in Armoury Abuse Indigenous Communities through a Population Health Lens 2nd Floor Cheryl Currie University of Lethbridge Women's W42 Beyond The Womb: Encouraging healthy pregnancies St. Health through cultural reconnection Lawrence Ashley Lamothe, Roslynn Baird 3rd Floor Southern Ontario Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative Children's W43 Issues in service delivery to Canadian First Nations, St. Health Métis, and Inuit children with speech and language George difficulties 3rd Floor Alice A. Eriks-Brophy, Francis Lori-Anne Davis-Hill, Jacqueline Dawn Smith, Laura Todd Hunter Leah Rae Radziwon University of Toronto, Six Nations Health Services Traditional W44 Teaching cultural competence in the federal St. David government - the Indigenous Community Development North course 3rd Floor Rose LeMay First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, FNIHB or Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada Environmental W45 Uranium Mining and Health: Facts, Figures and St. Questions Lawrence Dale M. Dewar 3rd Floor Society of Rural Physicians of Canada Respiratory / W46 Respiratory health in First Nations, Inuit and Métis Colony cardio / communities: Raising awareness through community Ballroom chronic disease outreach and engagement 2nd Floor Jennifer Dawn Walker, Oxana Latycheva, Wayne Warry Nipissing University, Ontario Lung Association, Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research

Cultural Safety W47 A new way of looking at good practices in Aboriginal St. David communities: The Canadian Best Practice Initiative's South Aboriginal Ways Tried and True Methodological 3rd Floor Framework Nina Jetha, Lori Meckelborg, Andrea L.K. Johnston, Steve Jreige Public Health Agency of Canada, Johnston Research Inc. Health Systems W48 Back to Moss: Developing and Integrating Public St. Health Services for Northern Ontario First Nations Patrick Communities North Janet Gordon, Emily Paterson 3rd Floor Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority Midwifery W49 Aboriginal Midwifery: Aboriginal Midwives working St. in Every Aboriginal Community Patrick Ellen M. Blais South Association of Ontario Midwives 3rd Floor Research W50 Addressing health inequalities by Indigenizing health Lombard services and research 3rd Floor Julie Bull University of New Brunswick

3:00 Refreshment Break with Posters and Exhibits

3:15 Workshop Session #6 Room Respiratory / W51 Embedding First Nations approaches into the Armoury cardio / prevention and management of chronic disease 2nd Floor chronic disease Shannon Tania Waters First Nations Health Authority Substance W52 Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Colony Abuse Intervention in Addictions Treatment Ballroom Colleen Dell, Carol Hopkins, Peter Menzies 2nd Floor University of Saskatchewan, National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation (NNAPF), CAMH Women's Shared Workshop Lombard Health W53 The Aboriginal Women's Health Intervention: What is 2nd Floor the potential for contributing to social change? Colleen Varcoe, Jane Inyallie, Linda Day, Madeleine Dion Stout, Holly MacKenzie, Annette Browne, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe University of British Columbia, Central Interior Native Health, Vancouver Native Health Society, University of Western Ontario

W59 Solidarity not appropriation: How non-Indigenous healthcare providers and organizations can support Indigenous women's reproductive justice and sovereignty Holly A. McKenzie University of British Columbia Food security / W54 Use-and-Occupancy Mapping: A tool to support food St. nutrition security in aboriginal communities Lawrence Daniel Tobias 3rd Floor D. Tobias Consulting Inc. Cultural Safety W55 A Journey to Cultural Competency and Safety: St. David Highlights of IPAC-AFMC Collaborative Activities North Darlene Janet Kitty 3rd Floor Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada

Midwifery W56 Revolutionary Care: Indigenous Midwifery St. Cheryllee Bourgeois, Billie Allan Patrick Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto, Well Living House North 3rd Floor Research W57 Using record linkage to study chronic diseases in the St. Métis population in Ontario Patrick David Henry, Storm J Russell, Wenda Watteyne, Saba Khan South Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and University of Toronto, 3rd Floor Métis Nation of Ontario , Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Social work W58 One Canoe, One Oar: Navigating mental health with Elm our Indigenous youth, a wholistic approach. 2nd Floor Ela Smith Wholistic Child and Youth

4:00 Break

4:15 Conclusion and Next Steps Dr. Anna Banerji Colony Ballroom

4:30 Adjourn