Mental and Physical Health Supports
National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419
Hope for Wellness Helpline: 1-855-242-3310 or chat online
Alberta Indigenous Virtual Care Clinic: 1-888-342-4822 or go to website
- Provides support, including emotional and crisis referral, for former Residential School students in both French and English.
- Operated by trained Aboriginal crisis counselors. Counselors can also provide information about accessing other health supports available to claimants.
- Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Hope for Wellness Helpline: 1-855-242-3310 or chat online
- Offers immediate, culturally competent, mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada
- Available in English, French and upon request in Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut. Online chat services are currently available in English and French, with expansion to Indigenous languages currently being explored as this new service launches.
- Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Alberta Indigenous Virtual Care Clinic: 1-888-342-4822 or go to website
- Serves individuals self-identifying as First Nations, Inuit and Métis and their families.
- Patients and their caregivers can receive consultations, usually within 24 hours, by phone or through their computer with Alberta-based physicians experienced in delivering culturally-safe health care and wellness support.
Education
Free, online, course on Indigenous Canada provided by the University Of Alberta
20 Essential Indigenous Movies by Rotten Tomatoes
35 books to read for National Indigenous History Month by CBC Books
Assembly of First Nations Education Toolkit
Aboriginal Voices of Survival, Resiliency and Community Wellness By Voices of the Urban Indigenous Peoples
2nd Edition of Aboriginal Voices of Survival, Resiliency and Community Wellness by Voices of the Urban Indigenous Peoples
National Student Memorial Registry
Template letter to call on your Members of Parliament to act on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Reports
- From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.
- Also view previous weekly discussions hosted by Dan Levy, class instructors, and special guests here
20 Essential Indigenous Movies by Rotten Tomatoes
35 books to read for National Indigenous History Month by CBC Books
Assembly of First Nations Education Toolkit
- A tool to bring together First Nations and non-First Nations people and foster a spirit of cooperation, understanding, and action. Consists of 22 learning modules that have been designed to enhance the understanding of important First Nations topics.
- Available on iTunes Store or in PDF format.
Aboriginal Voices of Survival, Resiliency and Community Wellness By Voices of the Urban Indigenous Peoples
- An online book put together to highlight personal indigenous narratives through the written medium to create a community esteem building project. Although each story is unique in its own right it also represents the collective experiences as a Nation.
2nd Edition of Aboriginal Voices of Survival, Resiliency and Community Wellness by Voices of the Urban Indigenous Peoples
National Student Memorial Registry
- Created to forever remember and honour the children who never returned home from residential schools.
- There remains an extensive amount of work to be done to find all the children that never returned home and their burial sites. Visit the website if you would like to add, remove or change a child’s name in the memorial register.
Template letter to call on your Members of Parliament to act on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Reports
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
- The Survivors Speak: A Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1 Origins to 1939 (Vol. 1)
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 2 1939 to 2000 (Vol. 1)
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience (Vol. 2)
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The Métis Experience (Vol. 3)
- Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials (Vol. 4)
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy (Vol. 5)
- Canada’s Residential Schools: Reconciliation (Vol. 6)
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“The Stranger” Official Video - Gord Downie - Secret Path
“The Stranger” is the first full chapter and song of The Secret Path. Adapted from Gord Downie’s album and Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel, The Secret Path chronicles the heartbreaking story of Chanie Wenjack’s residential school experience and subsequent death as he escapes and attempts to walk 600 km home to his family. |
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