In-Person Workshops

Giwiidosendamin Certificate Program – Responding to Addictions and Suicide

With Decolonized Practices

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February 03, 2025 - February 07, 2025
(09:00 AM - 04:00 PM CT )
$2,999.00 (regular rate)
$2,699.00 (*early rate)
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Venue TBA
*early rate expires 01/06/2025
30
Continuing Education
Credit Hours (CEC)

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Giwiidosendamin Certificate Program – Responding to Addictions and Suicide - Winnipeg - February 3-7, 2025; 9am-4pm Central Time

Early rate expires 01/06/2025

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Rooted in the Ojibwe concept of giwiidosendamin (“we walk together”), this five-day program emphasizes collective health, shared support, and reciprocal learning. By integrating Indigenous and Western perspectives, you will gain the skills and knowledge to support individuals, families, and communities through addictions, suicide, and related mental health concerns, using a two-eyed seeing approach.

Your co-facilitators will guide you through the impacts of addictions and suicide, the connection between trauma and addictions, and the role of cultural perspectives in decolonization efforts. This is a unique opportunity to learn practical harm reduction and recovery capital approaches to addictions support, as well as life-affirming strategies for suicide prevention. You will enhance your ability to provide meaningful and respectful support within Indigenous spaces.

By the end of the program, you will have a comprehensive understanding of addictions and suicide, and be able to implement key prevention, assessment, intervention, and postvention resources. You will also learn how to apply culturally respectful practices, support decolonization efforts, and utilize harm reduction strategies. This enriching program not only enhances professional skills but also encourages personal growth and self-reflection, empowering you to make a positive impact in your community.

What’s Included: Snacks, Refreshments, Resource Manual, Certificate of Completion

Please note that lunch and accommodations are not included in the cost of the program.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants should be able to:

  • Define addictions and understand potential impacts
  • Identify key assessment areas for those who are experiencing thoughts of suicide
  • Understand the connection between trauma and addictions
  • Recognize the influence of dominant discourses and mainstream understandings of addictions
  • Support individuals, families, helpers, and communities impacted by addictions and suicide
  • Demonstrate cultural competency and awareness to support decolonization efforts
  • Implement practices that are respectful and effective within Indigenous spaces
  • Apply harm reduction strategies and life-affirming approaches to addictions and suicide support
  • Help others overcome resistance, foster change, and inspire internal motivation

Method of Delivery

Presentation, Personal Reflection, Small Group Discussions, Experiential Practice

Some of the Topics Included

  • Understanding Clinical and Cultural Approaches to Healing
  • Building Tools and Self-Awareness as a Helper
  • Expanding Cultural Competency
  • The Role of Reconnection and Resilience
  • Exploring the Impacts of Addictions and Suicide
  • Navigating Resistance and Motivating Change
  • The Role of Sharing on the Healing Journey

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Trainer: Jaicee Chartrand

RPC, CIAS

Jaicee is Cree-Métis and grew up on Treaty 2 Land, and now lives on Treaty 1 Land in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a Registered Professional Counsellor and a Certified Indigenous Addictions Specialist, with over fifteen years of experience in frontline and leadership positions in mental health, addictions, and social services. In addition to training with CTRI, Jaicee owns a private counselling practice and is a Certified Universal Shamanic Practitioner. She mindfully seeks healing spaces that provide learning and education through traditional values and a two-eyed-seeing lens. And as a helper, Jaicee believes real change happens through relationships, authenticity, and empowerment. As someone who embraces open-heartedness and authenticity, Jaicee integrates her lived experiences into her trainings. She trains from a collectivist perspective, where we come together as equal learners and sharers of knowledge to serve and support our healing communities.

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Trainer: Jocelyne Lalonde

M.Sc., PHEc

Jocelyne is a proud franco-manitobaine and a Certified Motivational Interviewer with a Master’s degree in Family Social Science and an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. She has over 15 years of experience working with youth, families, and adults in community, government, and school settings. Jocelyne’s expertise and passion center around addiction, other mental health concerns, and wellness. Most recently, she has enjoyed teaching at the post-secondary level, where her research has focused on the experiences of youth in and from the child welfare system. As an enthusiastic lifelong learner, Jocelyne meaningfully acknowledges that there are many valuable ways of understanding ourselves and the world around us. She believes in the importance of walking respectfully alongside others and taking a strengths-based approach to providing support that focuses on each person’s innate ability to create a more peaceful life. Jocelyne is passionate about creating genuine connections with others and believes that this is the first step to a better life and, ultimately, to a better world.

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