Sharing Indigenous Knowledge to Improve Health Care

The ACHH Initiative is working with communities and clinicians to bridge the gap in our understanding of Indigenous children’s pain and hurt and improve healthcare experiences.

About the Initiative

The ACHH Initiative is working with communities and clinicians to bridge the gap in our understanding of Indigenous children’s pain and hurt. We hope to design tools for culturally appropriate communication and treatment.

Community Members

Are you a community member that participated in our work? Would you like your community to take part in our research?

See what we’ve learned so far and how we plan to move forward.

For Academics

Academic & Health Professionals

There’s lots of ways to improve the healthcare experience for Indigenous children and youth. Education is the first step! Learn more about ACHH’s research and the FIRST Approach developed for health professionals.

If we only treat one thing such as our body, and our spirit isn’t healthy and our minds and thoughts aren’t healthy, then how can you be healthy?

– Elder

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Thank you to everyone who attended our presentation today at #IMICH2019. For more information about what we do, visit our website https://t.co/BYc2GwzRHZ #IndigenousHealth @CanPaedSociety

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@ACHHInitiative team in beautiful & sunny @downtowncalgary at the 8th Int'l Meeting of Indigenous Child Health. We presented our topics and received favourable comments about our research and app development.
#IMICH2019

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@KarleeSAJohnson "knocks it out of the park" with an insightful and hands-on workshop to share the ongoing app development on the kids hurt app.
@MargotALatimer @ACHHInitiative @IWKHealthCentre @CarolAnneJay @CanPaedSociety
#IMICH2019

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@ACHHInitiative @IWKHealthCentre @DalHealth @CanPaedSociety @KarleeSAJohnson @CarolAnneJay
Karlee Johnson shares how the ACHH Kids Hurt app was developed with Two-Eyed Seeing as a tool for enhancing communication of Indigenous kids with clinicians.

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  • IWK
  • Eskasoni Health Centre
  • Centre for Pediatric Pain Research
  • Millbrook Health Centre
  • Canadian Institute of Health Research
  • St. Mary's First Nation
  • NS Health Research
  • Aboriginal Health Research Program
  • CP SPOR
  • Dalhousie
  • Lennox Island First Nation
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