2024-04-12 15:28:01
This project, which was initiated in 2021, is supported by Montréal Autochtones to ensure the deployment and sustainability of a range of health and social services adapted to the identity and particularities of the Indigenous clientele who find themselves in the metropolitan area.
The announcement of the opening was made Friday by the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé and the Minister responsible for Relations with First Nations and Inuit, Ian Lafrenière.
“I am delighted with the inauguration of this clinic, which demonstrates our government’s commitment to continuing its efforts to improve the provision of front-line care as well as culturally adapted service corridors for Indigenous users in the community. urban with regard to their particular needs,” declared Mr. Dubé in a press release.
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The clinic aims to improve access to “culturally safe” front-line services for the urban indigenous population of Montreal in complementarity with existing public services.
The Montreal metropolitan region has more than 35,000 people of indigenous origin, including 13,000 on the island. It is one of the largest indigenous communities in Quebec in an urban environment.
The Montreal care space is in addition to other culturally safe health clinics already in place in the province. In a press release, Minister Lafrenière said he hoped “that this initiative will be taken up in other major cities in Quebec.”
The Montreal health clinic will offer various front-line services with particular attention paid to prevention. The health professionals who will work there are trained in the realities and needs of Indigenous communities.
“To this offer is added a holistic well-being program including integrated traditional healing care which is intended to be flexible and ecosystem-based for children, families, adults and seniors,” specifies Montréal Autochtone in a press release.
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