Home and Community Care
Health Canada works with First Nations and Inuit communities in
developing comprehensive home and community care services that
respect traditional, holistic and contemporary approaches to healing
and wellness.
 These
services assist people who have chronic and acute illnesses receive
the care they need in their home or community. Care provided in
these familiar settings allows First Nations people and Inuit to
be close to their loved ones as long as possible and to keep their
independence.
Home and community care may include nursing care, personal care
such as bathing and foot care, home support such as meal preparation,
and in-home respite care, that is, caring for someone while family
members have a rest.
For more information on home and community care services, refer
to Health Canada's Home and Community
Care Program.
Home and Community Care Resources
The following resources are provided to assist communities in
the management and delivery of home and community care services:
The Planning
Resource Kit will guide you in the planning, designing and
delivery of home and community care services that respond to
the unique needs of First Nations and Inuit communities in a
relevant and meaningful way.
The Standards
Template Manual and the Policies
Template Manual provide examples and templates, on which
local communities can build their own standards and policies
manuals.
- The manuals are intended to be used as tools to support the
development of customized standards and policies to address the
specific needs of each community.
- They do not reflect mandatory practice. Instead the manuals
are building blocks or a starting point that communities can
use to help them in the process of creating their own tools for
their individual programs and community needs.
The Evaluation
Guide is a valuable reference for First Nations and Inuit
communities evaluating the First Nations and Inuit and Home and
Community Care Program. The guide describes the purpose and the
key elements of an evaluation. It will give you practical tools
that you can use to conduct an evaluation.
The Home
and Community Care Nursing Handbook is a tool designed to
assist First Nations and Inuit communities in promoting the effective
and safe practice of home care nursing. It also provides information
with respect to the recruitment and employment of nurses. This
handbook is intended for:
- Administrators and managers of community/tribal/regional First
Nations and Inuit health organizations and authorities; and
- Home and community care nurses employed or contracted by these
organizations to provide nursing services within their respective
communities.
The Continuing
Care fact sheet describes the Continuing Care research and
costing project currently underway and provides an overview of
services offered by Health Canada and by Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada.. This fact sheet is intended to inform First
Nations and Inuit communities and the interested public across
Canada on the status of the project.
First Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care (FNIHCC)
Program Information
Annual
and Bi-annual Reports are created each year to inform First
Nations people, Inuit, Federal Government Departments and other
organizations on the status of First Nations and Inuit Home and
Community Care (FNIHCC) Program. These reports describe the activities
and developments that have taken place with respect to the implementation
of the FNIHCC program. They also provide detailed information
regarding the achievements as well as the challenges encountered.
First
Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care Program Evaluation
Newsletters are developed 4 times a year to inform First
Nations and Inuit communities and the interested public across
Canada on the status of the Evaluation for the program. These
newsletters show the activities and developments that have taken
place with respect to the FNIHCC Evaluation Study and also provide
information regarding the achievements and challenges encountered.
The Foundations
for Success study is the first of three studies that together
will form the evaluation of the program. The next two studies
will address the remaining questions in the Results-Based
Management and Accountability Framework.
External Links
The following external links are designed to provide information
on home care issues of interest to all Canadians, including the
general public, home care providers and clients, health care and
social service providers, professional organizations, researchers,
and policy makers.
Some of the following hyperlinks are to sites of organizations
or other entities that are not subject to the  Official
Languages Act. The material found there is therefore in the
language(s) used by the sites in question.
Aboriginal Miscellaneous
Aboriginal
Canada Portal
Canadian
Health Network Aboriginal Peoples
Centre
for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment
Traditional
Food, Health and Nutrition
Aboriginal
Healing Foundation
Aboriginal Organizations
National
Aboriginal Health Organization
Assembly
of First Nations Health and Social Secretariat
Inuit
Tapiriit Kanatami
Congress
of Aboriginal Peoples
Pauktuutit
Inuit Women's Association
Education
First
Nations and Inuit Health Information System
Federal Governments
Canadian
Heritage
Indian
and Northern Affairs Canada
United
States Department of Health and Human Services
First
Peoples on SchoolNet Health Section - Industry Canada
United
States Department of Health and Human Services - Indian Health
Services
Health
2003
First Ministers' Accord on Health Care Renewal
Healthfinder
Health and Medical Organizations
Canadian
Public Health Association
Canadian
Paediatric Society
American
Academy of Pediatrics
Institute
for Aboriginal Health - University of British Columbia
Institute
of Aboriginal People's Health
National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Nursing
Aboriginal
Nurses Association of Canada
Traditional Healing Site
Turtle
Island Native Network Healing and Wellness
Universities
The
School of Native Studies - University of Alberta
Department
of Native Studies - University of Saskatchewan
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