Friday, May 13, 2011

Health and Wellness

Community-Based Counselling
For many clients, coming to our offices can be difficult. Sometimes clients lack transportation, or child care. EMCN provides community-based counselling with psychologists who are able to go out to visit in the community.

Translated Topics
Translated Health and Wellness Articles
Health and Wellness public education materials are available in a number of languages and covering ten topics.
These topics are available in:
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Chinese
  • Croatian
  • Dinka
  • English
  • Farsi / Persian
  • French
  • Hindi
  • Punjabi
  • Serbian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Somali
  • Spanish
  • Tigrina
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese
Please visit this site to read the Translated Topics.
These articles are from the Canadian Mental Health Association website. CMHA has tried to make high quality educational resources. However, they recognize that there is always room for improvement and welcome any feedback regarding these materials.
They are eager to hear back from you about the usefulness of the information or if there are other topics or languages that you would like to see translated.
Contact
Please give some your comments
Phone: 780-414-6300 / E-mail: main@cmha-edmonton.ab.ca


Our Services
Centre for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
The Edmonton Centre for Survivors of Torture and Trauma provides counselling services for refugees and immigrants whose past traumatic experiences cause distress and emotional problems in their present lives.
Services are offered by a psychologist who specializes in this area.


Our Project
Community-based Immigrant Mental Health Project
CIMHEP focused on five immigrant and refugee communities:
  • Chinese
  • Somali
  • South Asian
  • Spanish-speaking
  • Vietnamese
Mental health services provided by four health care sites


CIMHEP provided community-based immigrant Mental Health Cultural Brokers in the mental health arena. These individuals provided one-to-one support and referrals for families and individuals struggling with social and economic issues, acting as bridges between mainstream supports and services, and community members.
Working at individual, family, community and organizational levels, the eight community-based mental health cultural brokers in the five focal communities:

  • Linked community members to preventive help and health services
  • Mobilized people in their communities to work together to increase health education and preventive practices
  • Fostered the learning of health care system participants how to better support individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds
  • Ensured timely access by immigrant & refugee patients/families to health & mental health services, as well as continuity of care along the full continuum of services

The brokers provided direct support to over 600 individuals in the five communities though over 2500 contacts during the period April 2001 to May 2004. Another 169 individuals were able to access the support of a site-based multicultural health broker or bi-cultural counselor in one of the four mainstream sites.

CIMHEP also funded 50 community development mini-projects that addressed community-identified health issues in the five focal communities. Designed and implemented by community people, at least 2000 individuals in the five focal communities participated in projects in the areas of health promotion, accessing health and other services and developing preventive projects in the communities.

The project also translated 10 mental health articles into 13 different languages. These topics ranged from Alcohol and Drug Problems Happen in All Kinds of Families to Making Sense of Depression. These resources are now available on-line and are being well-received by a wide variety of organizations in Edmonton and across Canada.

Contact
For more information please contact us
Phone: 780-424-7709 / E-mail: info@emcn.ab.ca

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