With support from the Mastercard Foundation, Queen’s University and the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) are co-developing a program to train health professionals living along the western James Bay coast. Visit the program’s website or explore three new videos (links below) sharing perspectives on its vision and impact.
Announced March 1, the Queen’s Weeneebayko Health Education Program marks a new approach to educating and supporting Indigenous youth to pursue careers in healthcare and provides a unique model for transforming Indigenous health across Canada.
Learn about the program vision and the training that will be offered:
This project will drive health…
Just about every summer I take a trip to somewhere new. This year I went to the Yucatán Peninsula with family. One of the main things to do there this time of year is go swimming with the whale sharks. Before paying the 150 dollars to embark on a whale shark safari, I asked the obvious question: What are the chances I’m NOT going to see a whale shark?
The tour operator laughed. We were in peak whale shark season. To not see at least one whale shark would be very, very unusual, I was told.
Nevertheless, on the day…
The Manitoba Teachers’ Idea Fund is supporting mental health programming at Ross L. Gray School in Sprague.
A grant of $150,000 is going toward Infusing the 5T’s of Mental Health into the Mamàhtawisiwin Framework. The 5T’s refer to talking, training, teaching, tools, and taking care.
Mamàhtawisiwin: The Wonder We Are Born With—An Indigenous Education Policy Framework is a provincial policy directive and conceptual framework that supports the holistic achievements of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit learners by assisting Manitoba educators in incorporating Indigenous pedagogy, languages, and culture into their teaching and practices.
“We have Treaty One and Treaty Three within…
“Owning My Crown” is a city-wide campaign launched by The PrEP Clinic for Pride Month, with the goal of both celebrating diverse voices within the 2SLGBTQ+ community and promoting education about sexual health.
“Gay and bisexual BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by HIV in Toronto and this campaign aims to engage and raise awareness with people often left out of the conversation,” reads a release about the campaign.
The campaign features the stories of six gay Toronto men from different places around the world, covering themes like coming out to family, growing up queer, racism, the power of diversity, sexual…
The federal government is dedicating $1 million to NWT sexual health group Foxy to help prevent sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.
The territory’s Liberal MP, Michael McLeod, made the announcement on Friday. Foxy, based in Yellowknife, provides sexual health resources across all three territories.
Foxy stands for Fostering Open Expression among Youth. The group has been working to provide mental and sexual health programming in northern communities and schools for more than 10 years.
“This wonderful organization has offered some very innovative programs for youth,” said McLeod. “Their work promoting mental and sexual health empowers youth by providing the tools…
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If you’ve been reading this blog or listening to my podcast for a while, you know that every year, I put out a new edition of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech. This year’s guide is the ninth edition, and we put a tremendous amount of work into making it the best one ever.
For starters, we’ve added 120 new tools and four new categories — artificial intelligence, drama & theater arts, early learners, and literacy. We also added a few new feature pages on microlearning, working with English…
Province announced support to expand the number of medical school seats at Queen’s | Queen’s Gazette
The expansion includes seats for new Queen’s-Lakeridge Health family medicine training program to alleviate doctor shortages in the region.
Ontario’s Minister of Colleges and Universities, Jill Dunlop, shares remarks during the announcement event at Lakeridge Health in Oshawa, Ontario. Also visible, from left to right: Todd McCarthy, MPP for Durham; Lorne Coe, MPP for Whitby; Jane Philpott, Dean of Queen’s Health Sciences; Peter Bethlenfalvy, Minister of Finance; and Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health.
Queen’s is among several post-secondary institutions named during an announcement today that is being marked as the provincial government’s largest expansion of medical education…
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – Muskegon County health department’s services have moved away from the downtown area to the county’s new Marquette Campus.
The move recently was made from the health department’s location on Apple Avenue.
Muskegon County is consolidating operations from various locations, including some that were at the hall of justice and its South Campus at 209 East Apple Ave.
Health department operations that have moved to the Marquette Campus are community outreach and engagement, health education, maternal and child health, breast feeding peer counselors, epidemiology, inspections and permits, environmental health, MSU Extension, hearing and vision and administration services.…