Save the date! 41st Annual CANSW Conference “Navigating Diversity”
Sheraton Cavalier
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
September 26th and 27th 2019
Erin Beckwell BSW, MSW, RSW (SK) Erin is a social worker who has spent her career working in the areas of health, education, and community development. She is particularly passionate about health equity, harm reduction, and trauma-informed practice.
In her current role as Knowledge Translation Specialist in the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Erin’s work focuses on transforming the health system to achieve health equity and provide culturally safe care for all.
Originally from Treaty 4 Territory in Southwest Saskatchewan, she has called Treaty 6 Territory & Homeland of the Métis (Saskatoon, SK) home for over 20 years.
Carmen Levandoski
Carmen is a registered nurse with the Kidney Health Community Program at St. Paul’s Hospital here in Saskatoon. She obtained her nursing degree from the University of Saskatchewan. Carmen has worked in the area of kidney disease for many years as a hemodialysis nurse, dialysis staff educator, and a few other roles. The past 8 years she has worked in a community based program that covers all of central and northern Saskatchewan in the areas of kidney disease prevention, early detection, management, and treatment options. She works with all age groups in the general public, as well as healthcare providers.
Description of presentation:
Nîsohkamâtowak – “Helping Each Other”
The concept of Nîsohkamâtowak emerged from a collaboration between the Kidney Health Community Program and the First Nations and Métis Health Services Department of the former Saskatoon Health Region. Our mission was to find ways to deliver better care and education to all First Nations and Métis people who live with kidney disease, as well as their family members and support persons. Very simply, this means healthcare professionals actively listening in a way they are not used to, while the clients choose the priorities for care and education.
Erin Beckwell BSW, MSW, RSW (SK)