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Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre starts mental health support initiative
The Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre has started offering programs for mental health support as part of a new initiative.
Charleen Cote and Shauna Watcheston, two mental health therapists at the centre, came up with the idea for the initiative after noticing many people who come to the friendship centre are in need of more support.
“It just started out as a conversation,” Cote said. “We started seeing our people coming through the doors and they were so entrenched in addiction and mental health issues (so) we started asking ‘what can we do to provide better services for our people?’
Posted: May 03, 2021 6:38 AM CT | Last Updated: May 3
Sītoskawātowin offers a number of Indigenous-led therapies including through art, sharing circles and land-based activities. (Submitted by Charlene Cote)
The Saskatoon Indian Métis Friendship Centre has offered a healing hand up to Indigenous people in need for years. But now, it s formalizing it with a new mental health program called Sītoskawātowin a Plains Cree word that means supporting each other.
The registered social workers and mental health therapists with the program, Charleen Cote and Shauna Watcheson, came up with the name through the guidance of elders. In our ways, we are not above others and we are not below we re all on the same level, Watcheson said. We wanted to make sure that we re acknowledging that and that we re appreciating the people who we work with because they teach us every day.