The Mino Bimaadsawin Community Health Representatives role is to support the health of community members in Saugeen in regards to culture, health and wellness.

The Community Health Representative has a variety of responsibilities and takes a holistic approach the health & wellbeing of the community.  This can involve:

• The promotion & prevention of diseases such as Diabetes, Cancer, Hiv/Aids awareness
• Housing related health issues such as well as environmental impact issues
• Working with the EHO for water, animal bites, septic systems
• Works closely with the community health nurse and other departments for programming.
• We also work to support traditional & culture activities, assist to bring in healers and knowledge keepers, and support keepers of medicine through making of salves to give to community members.

Key Accomplishments

• The Good Food Boxes program which results in the delivery of 65-115 boxes per month; half of our client list consists of diabetic clients and the numbers of members ordering the good food boxes are increasing steadily.
• We support our community members through selling at half of the regular cost to support access to healthy fruits and vegetables.
• We have participated in major renovations at the Mino Bimaadsawin Health Centre.
• Supporting pet wellness to assist community members in looking after their pets with vaccinations and neutering to stop the increase of unwanted pets.