Building Community Resiliency: Creating culturally safe resource for Indigenous communities

The NB FASD Centre of Excellence is a diagnostic clinic providing services to New Brunswick province. We provide education to family members of those who live with FASD and the professionals who work with them and provide lifelong intervention and support for our clients. We are also responsible for educating the province on FASD prevention. We will be conducting a pilot study with selected First Nations healthcare practitioners and the wider community healthcare practitioners to evaluate if an alcohol-use awareness workbook is culturally safe to use with clients. This workbook focuses on an evidence-based approach to change and recovery, evidence-based skillful practices, and problem alcohol use with co-occurring disorders.

This project will help to address challenges by creating culturally relevant materials so that we can provide education to First Nation communities that are reflective of their needs. These materials will also help us to strengthen our relationship with the communities in which we provide services. This project will benefit the Regional Steering Committee and GFSI by providing additional support resources for communities and supporting community resiliency efforts.

Greater Fredericton Social Innovation’s (GFSI) mandate is to provide social planning to advance comprehensive community strategies guided by research, analysis, and community-defined goals.

Faculty Supervisor:

Greg Fleet

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Partner:

Greater Fredericton Social Innovation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of New Brunswick

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