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We are committed to working with First Nations to further the capacity of communities to address substance use and mental health issues through promotion of a holistic approach to healing and wellness that values culture, respect, collaboration, community, and compassion. 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This is reconciliation in action. Healthcare Excellence Canada and First Peoples Wellness Circle are such allies and Thunderbird Partnership Foundation is thankful for the synergy in our relationship that results in meaningful change.” said Carol Hopkins, Chief Executive Officer, Thunderbird Partnership Foundation. “Taking the time to create the partnership agreement is like a contemporary process of treaty making. Taking time to listen, understand, and nurture mutual respect is key to ensuring we create a future of excellence in mental wellness for all, including First Nations.”",{"type":15,"attrs":954,"content":955},{"textAlign":53},[956,958],{"text":957,"type":365},"“Advancing the recognition and understanding of cultural knowledge as a meaningful and necessary component to mentally well First Nation citizens and communities requires ongoing efforts at advocacy and highlighting practice-based evidence. Through our partnership with Healthcare Excellence Canada and Thunderbird Partnership Foundation, we continue to demonstrate our collective intentions at decolonizing health systems to ensure First Nations people have culturally competent and safe services for wellbeing. FPWC recognizes collaborative partnerships with non-Indigenous organizations such as HEC builds allyship that ensure equitable rights to health and wellbeing for First Nations are achieved,” said Dr. Brenda Restoule, First Peoples Wellness Circle",{"text":755,"type":365,"marks":959},[960],{"type":499},{"type":15,"attrs":962,"content":963},{"textAlign":53},[964],{"text":965,"type":365},"“HEC is continuing to learn how to respectfully support reconciliation efforts, including developing and nurturing meaningful relationships which are grounded in reciprocity and trust. The partnership we have with Thunderbird Partnership Foundation and First Peoples Wellness Circle is fundamental to our approach towards reconciliation and our commitment to supporting the health and wellness of First Nations, Inuit and Métis,” said Jennifer Zelmer, HEC President and CEO. “As a non-Indigenous organization, we are committed to being guided by the perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis and together building relationships that foster cultural humility and safety in health systems.”",{"type":491,"attrs":967,"content":968},{"level":493,"textAlign":53},[969],{"text":970,"type":365},"About Thunderbird Partnership Foundation",{"type":15,"attrs":972,"content":973},{"textAlign":53},[974],{"text":877,"type":365},{"type":15,"attrs":976,"content":977},{"textAlign":53},[978],{"text":979,"type":365},"Honouring Our Strengths: A Renewed Framework to Address Substance Use Issues Among First Nations People in Canada Honouring Our Strengths (HOS) is the foundation for this continuum, outlining community development; services for the prevention, early identification, intervention, and treatment of substance use; and the important roles of mental health and well-being in all aspects of care.",{"type":15,"attrs":981,"content":982},{"textAlign":53},[983],{"text":984,"type":365},"We are also committed to supporting the First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum (FNMWC) framework which builds upon the HOS renewal framework, and is rooted in culture-based knowledge, emphasizing First Nations strengths and capacities. 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The union reflects the coming together of substance use issues and mental wellness in a vision for a continuum of care grounded in cultural knowledge. Today, Thunderbird Partnership Foundation operates as a division of NNAPF Inc.",{"type":491,"attrs":996,"content":997},{"level":493,"textAlign":53},[998],{"text":999,"type":365},"About First Peoples Wellness Circle",{"type":15,"attrs":1001,"content":1002},{"textAlign":53},[1003],{"text":1004,"type":365},"The FPWC has its roots in the good work and legacy of the Native Mental Health Association of Canada (NMHAC) which brought forward early evidence of the successes of Indigenous communities to address mental health challenges using indigenous knowledge and evidence. Due to a shift in prioritizing how capacity is built in addressing Indigenous mental health issues, NMHAC concluded its original intention and announced the new entity of FPWC in 2015.",{"type":15,"attrs":1006,"content":1007},{"textAlign":53},[1008],{"text":1009,"type":365},"FPWC is a national not-for-profit corporation that is governed and managed by Indigenous leaders and exists to improve the lives of Canada’s First Peoples by addressing healing, wellness, and other mental health challenges shaped by cultural knowledge and evidence. Our mission is to “advocate for collaborative transformative change to create pathways to wellness and whole health for First Peoples shaped by diverse Indigenous cultural lenses”. FPWC leads work on healing centered care that is grounded in First Nation culture and values that encompasses collective strengths based healing, care, compassion and resiliency to address impacts of colonial traumas that harm First Nation people. The Board Chair, William (Bill) Mussell states “we are building on what we have learned from our forefathers and foremothers, while still evolving and learning from other traditions and practices around the world. Our work is based on the Indigenous value system of caring and sharing. We are committed to integrating the best of all worlds— using the optimal tools we can get to support the healing and wellness of our people.”",{"type":15,"attrs":1011,"content":1012},{"textAlign":53},[1013],{"text":1014,"type":365},"FPWC gets its mandate from the First Nation Mental Wellness Continuum Framework. The Framework is a comprehensive model that provides important principles and practical steps for providing comprehensive, culturally relevant, and culturally safe community-based services for First Nations communities. Ultimately, it is intended to create systemic changes that highlights the importance of culture as foundational to all work on mental wellness that is led and owned by First Nation communities. Through these principles FPWC works with the mental wellness workforce to provide comprehensive supports using cultural knowledge and practices to build mental wellness in First Nation communities. All of our work seeks to implement the key elements of the First Nation Mental Wellness Continuum Framework.",{"type":15,"attrs":1016,"content":1017},{"textAlign":53},[1018],{"text":1019,"type":365},"FPWC formed a partnership with Thunderbird Partnership Foundation in 2015 to collectively work on issues of substance use and mental health from a continuum of care for mental wellness that holds culture at its core. 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