Session Info: The purpose of this session is to present a study that explores the experiences of moral distress during the pandemic for long-term care home staff of nurses and personal support workers in northern Ontario, the subsequent impacts on their mental health as well as their resilience and adaptation. This session will outline the […]
Session Info: Explore respectful and meaningful engagement approaches with Indigenous Peoples. Engage in critical self-reflective practices and create a space to explore cultural safety & humility. Speaker Bios: Joanna Meawasige Vautour, Anishinaabe Kwe (she/her), MSW, RSW Joanna Meawasige Vautour is an Anishinaabe band member of Serpent River First Nation (SRFN). She was born and raised […]
Session Info: The purpose of this session is to present a study that explored how a community of older adults living in a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) with Oasis programming sought to build, and maintain, a sense of community by finding new ways of being together and engaging in collective occupation. This session will […]
Lakehead University respectfully acknowledges its campuses are located on the traditional lands of Indigenous people. Lakehead Thunder Bay is located on the traditional lands of the Fort William First Nation, Signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. Lakehead University acknowledges the history that many nations hold in the areas around our campuses, and is committed to a relationship with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit based on the principles of mutual trust, respect, reciprocity, and collaboration in the spirit of reconciliation. As a Centre we are committed to working towards reconciliation and decolonizing our work and have committed as a staff to educating ourselves in these areas both personally and professionally.