APPENDIX D
DESCRIPTION OF HEALTH CANADA MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS PROGRAMS
Brighter Futures program
The overall purpose of the Brighter Futures program is to improve the quality of, and access to, culturally appropriate, holistic and community-directed mental health, child development, and injury prevention services at the community level to help create healthy family and community environments. Program clients: all members of First Nations and Inuit communities.
Building Healthy Communities program
The Building Healthy Communities program is designed to assist First Nations and Inuit communities (which includes individuals and families) and territorial governments in developing community-based approaches to mental health crisis management. Activities include assessments, counselling services, referrals for treatment and follow-up treatment, aftercare and rehabilitation to individuals and communities in crisis. Program clients: First Nations communities, individuals and families.
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program
The Indian Residential Schools (IRS) Resolution Health Support Program provides access to mental health, transportation services and emotional support services for eligible former Indian residential school students through the Health Canada regional offices. Program clients: Eligible clients include former IRS students resolving claims through the Independent Assessment Process and their families, former IRS students receiving Common Experience Payments and their families, and those participating in Truth and Reconciliation and Commemoration events.
Labrador Innu Comprehensive Healing Strategy
The Labrador Innu Comprehensive Healing Strategy (LICHS) is a long-term strategy designed to improve health and social outcomes in the two Labrador Innu communities of Natuashish (formerly Davis Inlet) and Sheshatshiu. The strategy was developed in the aftermath of a gas-sniffing crisis in the Labrador Innu communities in the Fall of 2000. Program clients: members of the Mushuau Innu and Sheshatshiu Innu First Nations residing in the communities of Natuashish and Sheshatshiu, Labrador.
National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy
As a program, the National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (NAYSPS) supports a range of community-based solutions and activities that contribute to improved mental health and wellness among Aboriginal youth, families, and communities. Program clients: First Nations youth living on reserve, Inuit youth, off reserve Aboriginal youth.
National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program - Community-based Program
The National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP) community-based program provides prevention, intervention and aftercare and follow-up services in 500 First Nations and Inuit communities. Program clients: First Nations on-reserve and Inuit in Inuit settlements.
National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program - Residential Treatment
The Residential Treatment component of NNADAP is a national network of 50 treatment centres operated by First Nations organizations and/or communities that provide culturally appropriate in-patient and out-patient treatment services for alcohol and other forms of substance abuse. Program clients: First Nations and Inuit who have been assessed as requiring residential treatment.
Youth Solvent Abuse Program
The Youth Solvent Abuse Program (YSAP) is a community-based prevention, intervention, after-care and in-patient treatment program that targets First Nations and Inuit youth who are addicted to, or at the risk of inhaling solvents. Program clients: First Nations and Inuit youth who are addicted to or at risk of inhaling solvents.
Source: Health Canada ( http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/finance/agree-accord/prog/index-eng.php#mental).
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