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Circle
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Health Committee
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The Wellness
program offers the following services through various contracts
with outside agencies:
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Counselling
services for children, youth, adults who are at risk of family breakdown
or experiencing trauma because of family violence |
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Family
support services for children, youth and families who are at risk |
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Assist
with cultural traditional activities with children, youth, family
and community |
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Offers
assessments and referrals for community members to access external
resources |
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Respond
to community crisis when required |
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Community
Justice Program offers support to community members going through
the criminal justice system, adult probation supervision, and working
with the community justice committee on restorative justice initiatives |
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WHITE
FEATHER HEALTH CENTER
Antoine Archie, Health Director and
Gladys Rowan, Health Assistant
(250) 397-2717 |
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WELLNESS
PROGRAM
Wilma
Boyce, Administrator
Monday to Friday
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
(250) 397-2502 |
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The health department is responsible for the overall well being
and health of all community members. The following Services are
provided at the health centre: |
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Physician
visits every Monday from 1:00PM - 4:00 PM |
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Community
Health Nurse provides preventative care (prenatal, parenting,
communicable disease, child & youth, injury prevention and
new initiatives as requested) |
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Community
Health Representative provides assistance to physician |
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Alcohol
& Drug Worker provides referral services to either detox
or treatment programs |
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Health
Statistics Coordinator enters all relevant health data into
a health information system |
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Home
Support Services provides support to the elderly and handicapped
in their homes on a weekly basis |
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Home
& Community Care/ Elders Centre provides health care,
assessments, case management and nursing treatments to elders
and patients released from medical facility who require on-going
medical care.
The Elders Centre provides programming to increase wellness of
the community by improving the social, mental and physical health
of the elders in community. |
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Water
Samples from community buildings and homes are collected randomly
each week and analysed for general bacteria, total coliform and
fecal coliform at the Prince George Laboratory.
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