62 METIS NA TION Of ONT ARIO Annu A l Repo R t 20122013 Canada In Januar y 2013 the Canadian Institute for Health Information CIHI published a r eport on Heart Dis ease among Aboriginal peoples in Canada which used the CDSP data On Februar y 28 2013 MNO r esear chers pr esented a r eport on the CDSP r esear ch and knowledge trans lation activities at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Chr onic Disease Sur veillance Pr oject partners hosted by PHAC In Februar y and Mar ch of 2013 the MNO and ICES contracted Dr Elizabeth Badley and Dr Suzanne Cadar ette to carr y out the r esear ch on musculoskeletal disease among MNO citizens The study is sched uled for completion in the fall 2013 In Mar ch 2013 an independent consultant was contracted to carr y out a pr ogram evaluation of the CDS pr oject W ork is scheduled for completion in the late summer of 2013 In Mar ch 2013 the MNO began work on CDS Knowledge T ranslation and Mobilization Strategy 2013 2015 in or der to support MNO fr ont line workers ef forts to pr omote healthy living and pr event chr onic disease in Metis communities The MNO and ICES ar e curr ently collaborating on an article highlighting r esults fr om the cancer r esear ch completed to date which will be submitted to a major Canadian medical jour nal Ment A l He A l t H pR o GRAM MHP The MNO Mental Health pr ogram utilizes outr each and videoconfer encing technologies to link MNO citizens to culturally meaningful counselling and healing ser vices psychiatric consultations and opportunities to shar e their experiences with other community members in gr oup meetings and talking cir cles The MNO has the ability to link citizens in communities thr oughout the pr ovince to confdential specialized mental health car e as a r esult of a ser vice agr eement with Queen s University and Pr ovidence Car e in Kingston The pr oject also pr ovides important training education pr ofessional development opportunities designed to incr ease staf f and overall community capacity Recent notable achievements MNO Healing and W ellness staf f wer e pr ovided mental health training to incr ease capacity and to pr ovide dir ect client ser vices and participant based activities in the following mo dules NonV iolent Crisis Inter vention NVCI Safe T alk Mental Health First Aid Grief and Ber eavement Incorporating HandsOn activities into W ellness Planning Ef fective communication to establish healthy boundaries in the pr ovision of mental health ser vices All MNO offces with Healing and W ellness staf f ar e now equipped with videoconfer encing units and all p ro G ram de T a I ls Funder Ministry of c ommunity and Social Services Aboriginal Healing and W ellness Strategy AHWS n umber of s taf f 15 support staf f s taf f located in o ttawa e ligible Clientele Atrisk or highrisk Metis and other individuals and their families as well as Metis and other individuals with diagnosed mental illness or mental health conditions mno staf f wer e part of or ganizing commit tee for a d iabetes e xpo in Timmins in o ctober 2012