Alcohol & Other Drugs

Reprinted from "Aboriginal People" issue of Visions Journal, 2008, 5 (1), p. 32

Publications

• Aboriginal Mental Health: ‘What Works Best’. A 2001 discussion paper prepared for the Mental Health Evaluation & Community Consultation Unit
  www.carmha.ca/publications (click on: MHECCU Publications)

• Emerging Trends in Research on Mental Health Among Canadian Aboriginal Peoples. A 1993 report prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
  www.mcgill.ca/files/tcpsych/Report2.pdf

• Mental Health and Wellness in Aboriginal Communities: A 2003 Issue of In Touch magazine (a publication of the National Indian & Inuit Community Health Representative Organization) www.niichro.com/2004/pdf/INtouch/in-touch-vol-26.pdf

• Acting on What We Know: Preventing Youth Suicide in First Nations: A Health Canada report
  www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/pubs/promotion  (link to PDF at bottom of the page)

• "The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples: Transformations of Identity and Community" A paper from a 2000 issue of Canadian Journal of Psychiatry reviewing research on the Mental Health of First Nations, Inuit and Metis of Canada.
  ww1.cpa-apc.org:8080/Publications/Archives/CJP/2000/Sep/InReview.asp

Online Resources

• BC Women’s Aboriginal Health Program www.bcwomensfoundation.org/health_centre_programs.php

• Health Canada > First Nations, Inuit and Aboriginal Health > Substance Use and Treatment of Addictions: Includes a directory of treatment centres around the province
  www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/substan

• NAHO: National Aboriginal Health Organization www.naho.ca

• Aboriginal Canada Portal www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca

• Association of BC First Nation Treatment Programs: Links to treatment programs around the province
  www.firstnationstreatment.org

• Vancouver Island Health Authority: Aboriginal Health www.viha.ca/aboriginal_health

• Northern Health Authority: Aboriginal Health www.northernhealth.ca/your_health/programs/Aboriginal_Health/

• Interior Health Authority: Health Services directory http://interiorhealth.ca/health-services.aspx

• Fraser Health: Aboriginal Mental Health Liaison Program www.stolohealth.com/mentalhealth.php

• Vancouver Coastal Health Authority: Aboriginal Wellness Program www.vch.ca/aboriginalhealth/wellness.htm

• Aboriginal resources from the BC Schizophrenia Society: www.bcss.org/category/resources/aboriginal/