An organization that supports Indigenous mental health workers across Canada received $1.5 million in federal funding to help the workers cope with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Public meetings tackle vaccine hesitancy and other COVID 19 concerns from Indigenous people
May 7, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
When Canada went into lockdown last March to combat COVID-19, the First Nations Health Managers Association (FNMHA) knew they needed to get information out, and fast.
“There’s been such a barrage of information coming out, especially as the science evolves and changes,” said Marion Crowe, FNMHA chief executive officer. “We wanted to be able to create a central place to gather together where viewers could go and see people from different nations, people that look like us, sound like us, laugh like us.”