Finding a Better Way: Strengths-Based Trauma-Informed Practice
Presented by: JoLee Sasakamoose.
This Webinar was presented and recorded on July 13, 2021.
Dr. Sasakamoose discussed how the Cultural Responsiveness Framework was developed, why it is needed to help restore Indigenous wellness in Western society, and its implementation in various projects. She also discussed the importance of shifting from deficit to strengths-based trauma-informed practice.
Webinar Recording
Learning Objectives
Participants learned about:
- The Culturally Responsive Framework
- How to shift from deficit to strengths-based thinking
- The principles of trauma-informed practice
Speaker
Dr. JoLee Sasakamoose is the Interim Co-Scientific Director of nātawihowin (art of self-healing) First Nations Health and Wellness Network, Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis Health and Wellness Research, Training, and Knowledge Mobilization Network. She is the Research Director of Wellness Wheel, responsible for leading the Research Team in supporting Traditional ways of knowing alongside Western approaches to wellbeing. JoLee works tirelessly to stay on top of grant opportunities and is incredibly skilled at translating those opportunities into responsive community-led programming. JoLee has a knack for picking out valuable skills in others and bringing them on board to support the community.
She is a proud Anishinabe (Ojibwe) with membership in M’Chigeeng First Nation in Ontario, an active citizen of Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, and an Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Counselling at the University of Regina where she teaches Group Counselling, Counselling Girls and Women, Counselling Children and Youth, Indigenous Family Therapies, and Decolonizing Research Methodologies. She co-authored the Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness Theory and has an exceptional way of working in the “middle ground” between Western and Indigenous ways.