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Welcome to Shining Mountains/Bienvenue aux Montagnes Brillantes
Shining Mountains is pleased to announce our move to a new office!
Our New Address is:
4925 46 st
Red Deer, AB
T4N 1N2
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Alberta Aboriginal Environmental Scan 2011
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Click HERE for the Environmental Scan Form
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Shining Mountains Living Community Services
4925 - 46st, Red Deer, AB. T4N 1N2
or fax the completed form to us at (403) 346-9380
Click the Link above, fill out the environmental scan form, press "done" at the end of the form to email it to Shining Mountains and enter the draw to win one of three prizes (pictured below).
Shining Mountains Messengers Project
Shining Mountains Living Community Services is thrilled to announce that the organization has received a Public Health Agency of Canada contract for $200,000. (two hundred thousand dollars). These funds will allow Shining Mountains to carry out a project "Messengers".
Messengers is designed to determine the needs of Métis front line staff and develop a culturally appropriate tool kit for use by Communities. The goal of Messengers is to assist Métis front line staff in providing support, awareness and education.
This project will help reduce sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies and HIV/AIDS within Métis communities, whether urbanized or rural.
HIV in the News
Centres will have needles for drug addicts
Derek Spalding, Daily News
Published: Monday, March 22, 2010
Drug addicts on in Nanaimo will soon have sterile needles and other drug paraphernalia available to them at most front-line health centres.
The initiative is part of the Vancouver Island Health Authority's strategy to reduce the spread of diseases among drug users by distributing the supplies from about 60 centres authority-wide. Approximately 12 sites in Nanaimo have been short-listed, but final selections will not be made until June or July.
Widespread distribution also takes the focus off of a single site, which can become hangouts for the addicts who regularly use the facilities. A fixed needle exchange site in Victoria shut down in 2008 because it turned into a hub for users, who reportedly disturbed neighbours. VIHA has had difficulties with needle exchanges in Nanaimo as well, but the Harris House on Wesley Street is widely accepted as a model of success.
Needle exchanges will work much like any other harm reduction for crack pipes and condoms, according to VIHA spokeswoman Suzanne Germain. There will be exemptions for those sites that are completely inappropriate, but there must be good reason.
"If you're a front-line office, you will make harm reduction supplies available, unless there is a compelling reason not to," Germain said. "Our executive is very much in support of this. You will have to have a good argument to get out of it."
Sites will include public health clinics, outpatient offices and mental health and addictions offices. The model has worked in other health authorities and is what VIHA's chief medical health officer, Dr. Richard Stanwick, refers to as needle exchange in a drawer.
"It makes supplies more distributed and more accessible to clients," Germain said. "Not every body who is a drug user is in downtown Victoria or . . .near Harris house in Nanaimo."
Harm-reduction policies that aim to reduce the spread of disease among addicts are similar to laws that force people to not smoke near buildings or those that force people to wear seat belts, Germain explained. Diseases like HIV AIDS or Hepatitis C are severely painful for the victims and they are extremely expensive for all taxpayers.
"It helps reduce the spread of disease, which ultimately cost the health care system a significant amount of money," Germain said.
Aboriginal Owned, Staffed,and Operated in Central Alberta
Our Mission
Service provision on a status blind basis, that allows the marginalized and underserved population, who are or are at risk for increased risk factors to HIV/AIDS and/or HCV infection, including Homelessness, Substance Abuse or Violence, the opportunity to have equal access to services and resources that are appropriate socially, spiritually and culturally and that promotes quality of life in a respectful manner, through harm reduction practices and programming to reduce the risk of infection of HIV/AIDS and/or HCV infection in these populations.
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