I'm really glad you've seen “heal the healers”. That's something I'm quite proud of, to be honest. My team is incredible. We engaged with our elders, knowledge-keepers and traditional healers around the country and were able to develop a program that we delivered through our resiliency lodge model, which seeks to heal the people who are helping to heal others.
If you're having an issue, you might seek out the help of an elder, but who's helping that elder? Typically, it's not a lot of people. We created a two-hour virtual program and an in-person day program that scoots around NIHB, because you have predeterminations for most services. It takes forever to access them and there aren't maximum times for waiting. It allows healing to take place within the culture they are from instead of in an institution, which can be very scary.
We also did a training for community support workers, so they would know how to best deliver health care services to indigenous women and girls and two-spirit, transgender and gender-diverse folks.