Working directly with Indigenous communities across Canada to inform our research

Who we are

We are a group of researchers, educators, and Indigenous community members (youth, Elders, educators, parents, health practitioners and policy makers) from Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey, Tsuut'ina Education Department (Alberta), Chilliwack School District (British Columbia), Three Nations Education (New Brunswick), Dalhousie University, Alberta Health Services and University of British Columbia Faculty of Education. We are funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to lead the project entitled, Developing, Evaluating and Sustaining a School-Based Mental Health Literacy Resource for Indigenous Youth.

This project is also supported by Women and Children's Health Research Institute at the University of Alberta and the Max Bell Foundation.

Project partners

UBC Faculty of Education

Chilliwack School District (British Columbia)

Alberta Health Services / MentalHealthLiteracy.Org

Tsuut’ina Education

University of Alberta

Dalhousie University

Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey (Nova Scotia)

Three Nations Education Group Inc. (New Brunswick)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)