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"Nunavut
Wellness" was borne out of a loosely
organized group of participants at a Wellness
Symposium held in February 2002. This organization
is presently known as the Central Non-Government
Wellness Organization for Nunavut, or Central
NGO.
Click
on the links below to find out more information
about our goals, our statement of ethics,
as well as notes from the symposium. A reading
of these documents assures us all that Nunavut
Wellness is very much alive and healthy.
Mandate and Goals
Statement of Ethics
and Policy
Symposium Notes
Working Group/Interim
Executive Council Members
Mandate
and Goals
Our
mandate was drafted at the last meeting
of the Central NGO Executive Council meeting
in May 2002. Our mandate, goals, and mission
statement documents are growing and evolving,
and we are open to your suggestions. You
can submit your comments to the chair of
the NGO at info@nunavutwellness.ca.
Mission
Statement
The role of the Nunavut Central Wellness
NGO is to support the expansion of wellness
initiatives in all Nunavut communities in
order that all Nunavut people, or Nunavummiut,
move towards healthy and functional development
as individuals, as families, as communities
and as a Territory.
Goals
•
To provide a link to those who are involved
in the delivery of wellness programs to
the people of Nunavut.
•
To
help build the identity of wellness as a
presence in each Nunavummiut community with
its own mandate, its own infrastructure,
its own staff, and its own funding.
•
To
support a continuous increase in capacity
in the NGO sector in each community.
•
To
promote and share resources in Inuktitut,
Inuninnaqtun, English (and French as required)
and to enhance wellness at all levels of
Nunavummiut communities.
•
To
be a voice for wellness in an advisory and
advocacy role working at the community,
territorial and national levels.
Objectives
•
To
provide support services to individuals,
groups and organizations involved in wellness
and health promotion projects, including:
- proposal
writing, strategy development, principles
of community development and capacity
building, etc.
- organization
of conferences, workshops, etc.
- coordination
and support of partnership work between
various organizations in Nunavut working
on similar goals
•
To
maintain a directory of all organizations
and individuals involved in wellness and
health promotion in Nunavut, with descriptions
of their specialties and the services, knowledge,
and experiences they can share with other
organizations in Nunavut
•
To
maintain a registry of all projects, both
planned and underway, of different organizations
working toward wellness and health promotion
•
To
assist in linking resources of all kinds
with the members and member organizations
•
To
publish a newsletter at least every two
weeks to promote wellness and health to
people who do not have Internet access
•
To
employ a director to develop the Central
NGO office and to deliver programs as directed
by the Executive Council and Working Group
•
To
promote Nunavut Wellness at the community,
regional, territorial and federal levels
•
To
look after the development and maintenance
of the Nunavut Wellness website
•
To
ensure that wellness activities and programs
are promoted through Nunavut and Northern
radio, television, newspapers and magazines
•
To
maintain a library of successful proposals
and related follow up documents relating
to Nunavut wellness
Submitted
by Marcus Wilke, a long time northern nurse,
now practicing in Pangnirtung.
Statement
of Ethics and Policy
The
following key concepts have been discussed
in informal conversations with members of
the Executive Council. Other parameters
for the operation of wellness centres have
been borrowed from the Ilisaqsivik Society.
These represent the core principles on which
their Family Resource Centre is founded
and will become the basis of our statement
of ethics, to be finalized once the Central
NGO is established.
Safety
A policy of zero tolerance for violence
of any kind, including physical, sexual,
financial, mental emotional, verbal or
racial, will be adopted by all Nunavut
wellness facilities and programs.
Confidentiality
All workers participating in wellness
programs will sign a statement of confidentiality.
Participants will be made aware of the
policy of confidentiality in all wellness
sessions.
Cleanliness
and Orderliness
It is important that all wellness
facilities be as clean and as well maintained
as possible. A neat, functional and clean
facility contributes to general well being
for everyone.
Employee
Policy Guidelines
It is essential that all wellness
programs have a policy manual in place
that states clearly all operations and
procedures regarding the employment of
individuals, including hiring, payroll,
training, discipline and attendance guidelines.
Operations
and Board Guidelines
A general policy manual for all wellness
programs should be developed to include
administrative policies and procedures,
guidelines for setting up and maintaining
a board of directors, information about
community interagency cooperation, facility
use, maintenance schedules, and record
keeping.
Other
points to be addressed in the establishment
of wellness programs include:
- Using
Inuktitut language all the time
- Involvement:
connecting with others first and foremost
- Learning,
and being actively involved in Inuit culture
- Treating
the organization of wellness programs
as one would a client, ensuring that the
needs of Love and Belonging, Empowerment,
Freedom and Play/Fun are
met at all levels of the organization
- Developing
plans and programs based on idea that
the "people themselves know best"
- Celebrating
together
- Noticing
the needs, big and small, of other individuals,
and helping people to meet those needs
- Thoughtful
acts of kindness and affirmation
- Level-on-level
communication and thought, with people
taking responsibility for their actions
(as opposed to using the Drama Triangle
approach of Victim-Persecutor-Rescuer)
- Identifying
roles and responsibilities and allowing
each other the room to fulfill these as
we each see fit
- Using
gossip as information about modifying
actions instead of being defeated by it
- Informing
each other of our own needs
- Having
staff "check ins" regularly
(2 - 3 times per week)
- Using
principle of Nammaktuq — It
is enough. We have enough.
- Using
Internal Control language; avoiding external
control vocabulary and language patterns
- Turning
negatives to positives
- Making
boundaries clear
- Giving
information that is clear and appropriate
to avoid presumption and gossip
- Checking
in regularly with individuals and with
groups: How are you? What do you need?
- Men
and women, elders and youth, Qallunaat
and Inuit - all are equal
- Taking
responsibility for ourselves and practicing
self care
- Staying
clear of "why questions" which
usually imply guilt
- Talk/communication
about the pictures that we have in our
minds is essential
- Tears
are OK
- Don't
turn stones into bread: If a program or
a proposal or an advocacy issue is not
working well, it is often better to leave
it be, and expend energy on something
that is working
- Acting
on facts, not on assumptions or judgments
- Identifying
the beliefs at play in a given situation,
or in a person's life, in order to communicate
well
- Taking
responsibility for our own choices and
not blaming others
- Understanding
that nothing is accidental. All things
can work to our own good and contentment
- Trusting
God, as creator to lead us in new paths
of healing.
Symposium
Notes
The
symposium notes were taken by Don Ellis
at the Nunavut Wellness Symposium in Iqaluit,
February 13 - 15, 2002, and were supplemented
by additional information from Luc Brisebois.
Please note, these are not intended to be
an official record. Tape recordings of the
whole proceedings are in the possession
of Health and Social Services.
This
document is currently available in PDF format.
You will need Adobe Acrobat in order to
view or print the file. If you don't have
this program installed on your computer,
it can be downloaded for free from the Adobe
website.
Click
to view symposium notes here
(156 KB).
Nunavut
Wellness Central NGO Working Group/ Interim
Executive Council Members
Elisapee Davidee
Inunnik Productions
Iqaluit
Tel.: 867-979-6801
Fax: 867-979-3300
E-mail: ilisapi@hotmail.com
Pam Stellick
Inuit Tungasuvvingat
Ottawa
Tel.: 613-563-3546 (#15)
Fax: 613-230 8925
E-mail: pstellick@ontarioinuit.ca
Mark Kalluak
IQ Advisor, Dept of Education, Arviat
Tel.: 867-857-3073
Fax: 867-857-3090
E-mail: mkalluak@gov.nu.ca
Norma Jean Johnson
Tel.: 867-979-6089
Fax: 867-979-6091
Tasiuqatigiit/Hand in Hand/Main dans la
Main
E-mail: thmforfamilies@nv.sympatico.ca
Beverly Illauq (Chair)
Ilisaqsivik Society Consultant
Clyde River, (Regina)
Tel.: 306-790-7987
Fax: 306-790-7978
E-mail: billauq@sasktel.ca
Resource people will be brought into Executive
Council meetings and into Working Group
meetings as needed.
Possible resource people or advisors
could include:
Don Ellis - Nunavut Department of Health
and Social Services
Maureen Connors - Health Canada
Bonnie Hukaluk - Rural Health Canada
Mary Alainga - National Aboriginal Health
Organization
John Vandervelde - Children's Secretariat
Elders from any of the communities
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