In terms of Governance, Health Committees for all five communities were elected including our K.H.A.B Board. We would like to welcome all members to our health team and we look forward to working with them to the face the challenges we shall meet in the year ahead. A special thanks to all the staff, committee members, board members, and Chief and Council for your hard work and your commitment to continuing to word with us as a team to strive towards our goal of providing the best possible services for our membership.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

 Community Health Nursing Program The Community Health Nursing consists of prenatal and postnatal care, child health clinics, school program and communicable disease program, The nurses provide these programs to the Lac La Ronge Indian Band communities of Kitsaki, Grandmother's Bay, Hall Lake and Sucker River. The support staff assist the nurse with the delivery of the above services. These staff include the Community Health Representatives and secretaries in all the communities, in addition to the TB worker and prenatal worker located in Kitsaki.

 A Community Health Nurse is assigned to an outlying community and delivers all required community health programming to that community. In Kitsaki, due to the high population, all the Community Health Nurses are assigned to oversee each of the community health programs and share holding child care clinics. Program delivery has been more efficient with this delegation.

 The Community Health Nurses have also linked with district health staff in order to provide consistent health promotion and disease prevention education. This is apparent in the partnership of implementing prenatal classes together three times a year. The good partnerships developed the provincial nurses and band nurses helped expediently exchange information when the clients are transient.

 Overall the delivery of the community health programs to the above Lac La Ronge Indian Band Communities has been better than it bas been in years. The retention of professional and support staff is vital to continued improvement. The nurse will continue working to enhance the delivery of the services in the coming year.

Home & Community Care Program:
 The Home and Community Care Program continued to grow throughout the year of 2002-2003.

 We added a Diabetes Nurse Educator, two licensed practical nurses and one registered nurse. All positions are full-time. We developed an Elders program for each community, managed by Margaret Beament. We have increased services to Elders and the disabled in our communities and expanded our program immensely. We are thankful for the low staff turnover and are looking forward to an even more exciting year in 2003-2004 with further development of our program.

 Community Health Representatives
 CHR's provide services such a the following in each of their communities: health promotion, health education in the areas of maternal and new born care, child care, human sexuality and common illnesses, and mental and emotional well being. There are 5.5. CHR's. Certified CHR's are based in Sucker River and La Ronge.

 Community Support Workers help elders and young mothers with food supplies by hunting and fishing, as well as general maintenance like hauling and cutting wood. They also refer clients to Mental Health as needed. They have seasonal cultural and traditional activities i.e.-putting on cultural camps and taking people out berry picking and fishing.

 Medical Transportation Non-insured Health Benefits are coordinated by half-time workers in Grandmother's Bay, Hall Lake and Sucker River and two full-time workers in La Ronge. They coordinate medical trips for clients' in and out of town appointments, arranging accommodations, meals and taxis.

Mental Health Program
 Our department consists of two therapists: Selim Anwar, Senior Mental Health Therapist, Wood, Psychologist. We provide a number of services to our Band Members. For example, we provide individual, couples, family, and group therapy, and deal with a broad range of emotional and behavioural difficulties, Further, we offer the New Choices for Men program, and assist Saskatchewan Justice staff in running a sex offender treatment program.

 As well, we helped to plan and organize a Men's and Women's Wellness Conference, and offer health psychology workshops at the Band's annual Diabetes Conference. Also, we offer anger management and parents skills training for the Northlands College Stepping Stones program. Finally, we have recently begun developing positive parenting and non-violent conflict resolution promotional materials.

Addictions The Addictions program strives towards reducing problems of alcohol and drug abuse in the communities of La Ronge, Grandmother's Bay, Sucker River, Hall Lake and Little Red River.

 The Addiction Workers provide: counselling assessments to identify appropriate treatment for individual clients and families; referrals to appropriate resources or treatment facilities; and presentations and workshops in the schools and communities on information on how alcohol and drugs affect the body. Self help groups are monitored or run by workers in the communities. All Addiction Workers work closely with Mental Health and Probation.
 Transportation and support is provided for some clients. Short term training is ongoing for all workers. Workers help out at wakes and funerals in the communities. Home visits are done for follow up clients, elders and some clientele.

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