In one of the programs they had many years ago at the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, they would take families who were impacted by intergenerational trauma and having involvement in the child welfare system, and put them on an island as a family, with a psychologist and an elder. They would teach families how to be together as families and to understand the historical trauma that resulted in the current struggles the family was having. It was rooted in culture, outside of western practices, in terms of mental health care.
Are you familiar with any programs like that? Do you think that those kinds of programs are critical, particularly when working with isolated and indigenous communities?