The Thunderbird Partnership Foundation is a leading authority on Indigenous addictions and mental wellness research and advocacy in Canada. Thunderbird champions culturally-based addictions, substance use and mental wellness services for First Nations in Canada, advocating for and creating a collaborative systems approach that empowers Hope, Belonging, Meaning and Purpose.
Our core mandate is the implementation of the Honouring our Strengths: A Renewed Framework to Address Substance Use Issue among First Nations in Canada, and the First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework.
Thunderbird leads or supports the implementation of these frameworks through:
* knowledge exchange (toolkits, guidebooks, and training)
* development of the Native Wellness Assessment™the world's first instrument that measures the effect of cultural interventions on a wellness from a whole person and strengths based perspective
* implementation of the Addictions Management Information System (A.M.I.S.) in treatment centres run by the National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP) and Youth Solvent Abuse Program (YSAP)
* through supporting strategies to address wage parity in the NNADAP/YSAP workforce.
Current Accredited Training Courses include:
1. Land for Healing
2. Strengths Based Addiction Treatment/Care Facilitation
3. Care Facilitation
4. Culture as Intervention/Native Wellness Assessment
5. Buffalo Riders Early Intervention Program
Some courses are available online via thunderbirdpf.org.
Check out our website for information on other courses, and access to our free and culturally-safe guidebooks on the topics of mental health and substance use issues, visit our website: thunderbirdpf.org.
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Company Details
- Employees
- 33
- Founded
- -
- Address
- 22361 Austin Line,, Bothwell,ontario,n0p 1c0,canada
- Industry
- Health And Human Services
- NAICS
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Administration of Human Resource ProgramsAdministration of Veterans' Affairs
- Website
- thunderbirdpf.org
- Keywords
- Indigenous Health, Culturally Relevant Care, Holistic Wellness, Strengths-Based Approach, Opioid Addiction, Cannabis, Research, Training, Advocacy, NNADAP, NYSAP, Treatment Centres, Mental Wellness Teams, Harm Reduction, Methamphetamine Use, Indigenous Knowledge.
- HQ
- Bothwell, Ontario,
- Competitors
- Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA), First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC), Chiefs of Ontario, Native Women's Association of Canada, First Nations Health Managers Association, Canadian Council for Indigenous Business, Assembly of First Nations, Indigenous Tech Circle, First Peoples Wellness Circle, Indspire.
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation Questions
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation's website is thunderbirdpf.org
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation's LinkedIn profile is https://ca.linkedin.com/company/thunderbirdpf
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation has
33 employees.
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Thunderbird Partnership Foundation's industry is
Health and Human Services
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation's top competitors are
Ontario Native Women's Association (Onwa),
First Nations Information Governance Centre (Fnigc),
Chiefs Of Ontario,
Native Women's Association Of Canada,
First Nations Health Managers Association,
Canadian Council For Indigenous Business,
Assembly Of First Nations,
Indigenous Tech Circle,
First Peoples Wellness Circle,
Indspire.
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation's categories are Health and Human Services
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation's founding year is 2000
