About

Building Bridges is a joint project of Mood Disorders Society of Canada and the Native Mental Health Association of Canada, which received funding support from the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada. Launched May 2009, Phase 2 builds on the work of the Phase 1 Symposium held November 2007.

The aim of Phase 2 was to develop:

  1. a national agenda for research on cultural safety and cultural competence, and
  2. a national strategic framework for improving culturally and linguistically competent and safe services in mental health care for mental health consumers and Aboriginal peoples. Phase 2 also focused on investigating and determining which cultural and social institutions need to be restored or re-built in order to accommodate cultural safety.
BUILDING BRIDGES 2_FINAL REPORT BUILDING BRIDGES 2_SCHEDULES A-E
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