Reclaiming Indigenous Health Practices, with Germaine Trudeau-Elliott

Shingwauk Anishinaabe Students Association

A conversation about reclaiming Indigenous health practices.

This presentation will focus on the necessity to reclaim Indigenous health practices. It will begin by describing the impact of colonization on the physical, mental and spiritual health of Indigenous people on Turtle Island. Specifically, how unaddressed trauma creates long term physical illness in the body. It will include a description of emerging Indigenous models of health care, and why ceremony, language and community connection are important elements of good health and Mino Bimaadziwin.

<h2>Germaine Trudeau-Elliott, B.A., MSW</h2>

Germaine Trudeau-Elliott is Anishinaabe Kwe, of the fish clan from Serpent River First Nation. She is currently the Executive Director of the Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Interprofessional Primary Care Team under the umbrella of the Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle. She has held this position since 2018. Prior to this, she worked for 12 years as the manager for the Enaahtig Aboriginal Community Mental Health Program. She is a former member of the Joint Management Committee of the provincial Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy (1997-2002 and 2004-2006). From 2005 to 2007 she served as a member of the Hate Crimes Community Working Group, appointed by the Attorney General of Ontario. 
Since 2010, Germaine has chaired the Indigenous Health Circle of the Simcoe Muskoka region. The Indigenous Health Circle is a collaborative body which drives health system change for Indigenous communities in the region. She is a current member of the Ontario Health, Central Region Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Group and the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Implementation Table. 
Germaine is an alumna of Algoma University, graduating in 1988. In 2018, she graduated from the University of Toronto’s Master of Social Work Program with a specialization in Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency. She applies trauma-informed practice in the design and delivery of Indigenous primary health care, and currently is focused on the study of the de-colonization of health systems and reclaiming Indigenous health practice. Germaine is a mother of four and grandmother of nine and lives in Orillia, Ontario.

This online event can be accessed through Zoom <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89073359362?pwd=cUhJT3lZWXlOZklodWd0Rjh1WjJGZz09" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

Presented by Shingwauk Anishinaabe Student's Association in partnership with Algoma University Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig as part of Indigenous Peoples and History Month.

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