Long Plain First Nation – Health Services

Services and Programs

• Long Plain Health Services provides the following services and programs:
  • Communicable diseases education; school health; chronic care
  • Education for diabetics and families, screening/monitoring medical conditions
  • Parenting Skills; Child Development; Healthy Babies and Injury Prevention education
  • Medical Transportation

Role Models
Observing the people around them is one way that your children learn. Take our Role Model Quiz to see how well you do as a role model for your children.

CBC Health News
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CBC Health News

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence (also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, or intimate partner violence) occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another. Domestic violence often refers to violence between spouses, or spousal abuse but can also include cohabitants and non-married intimate partners. Domestic violence occurs in all cultures; people of all races, ethnicities, religions, sexes and classes can be perpetrators of domestic violence.

Domestic Violence is not confined to a specific gender; Domestic violence is perpetrated by both men and women.

Domestic violence has many forms, including physical violence, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, intimidation, economic deprivation, and threats of violence. Violence can be criminal and includes physical assault (hitting, pushing, shoving, etc.), sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual activity), and stalking. Although emotional, psychological and financial abuse are not criminal behaviors, they are forms of abuse and can lead to criminal violence. There are a number of dimensions to domestic abuse, including:

• Mode: whether physical, psychological, sexual and/or social.
• Frequency: on/off, occasional and chronic.
• Severity: in terms of both psychological or physical harm and the need for treatment.
• Transitory or permanent injury: mild, moderate, and severe (up to and including homicide).

Domestic Abuse and How You Can Help Stop It
Do you know the signs of domestic abuse? Would you be able to tell if a friend or relative was being abused? Or, if you did know it was happening to someone you care for, do you know how to help? How to support that person?

The documents below (click links to download) are for your information. Please read them both to learn about the warning signs of domestic violence, and what you can do to help. If you don't have a program to read these PDF files there are links on the Downloads page.

• Warning Signs of Abuse - PDF - 70kb
  
• Ways to Support Her - -PDF - 70kb

Native Women's Association of Canada

"The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) has documented 520 Aboriginal women and girls who have been murdered or who have gone missing, mostly in the last three decades. There may be many more cases that have not yet come to light. Each one of these women is loved and missed terribly by their family, friends and community. Sisters In Spirit vigils are a time to draw greater attention to the issue of violence against women and to demand action."

For more information about the Native Women's Association of Canada and the Sisters in Spirit vigils, visit
Native Women's Association of Canada