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Per #VTDigger

Final Reading: #Bill in #VermontSenate proposes removing barriers to professional licensing for new #immigrants.
“As we are #diversifying our population in southern Vermont, we need to apply that same principle to our #serviceproviders as well,” said one advocate.

Ian Hefele wants the services people receive in his Brattleboro-area community to be #culturallyappropriate to the #backgrounds from which they come. Appropriate hairdressers for all cultures, for example.

#huzzah

More info:
Allina Health has teamed up w/a local organization to create an online guide for Indigenous & Native Youth struggling with mental health challenges.
#Native & #Indigenous communities use #smudging -the burning of one or more #SacredMedicines like tobacco, sage, cedar and sweetgrass – to cleanse their mind, body & soul.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/online-mental-health-guide-created-with-indigenous-youth-in-mind

#NativeHealing #NativeTherapy #decolonization #HelpingNativeYouths #CulturallyAppropriate #NativeReconnection

#SweatCeremonies are #returning to the #FirstNations Garden in Montreal's #BotanicalGarden this spring after being put on hold at the start of the pandemic.

The city of #Montreal announced Wednesday that it would make the space available to the #NativeFriendshipCentre for the next three years so it can organize #ceremonies

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6781189

#Indigenous #Quebec #Canada #SweatLodge #healing #TraumaRecovery #decolonization #CulturallyAppropriate #NativeHealth #NativeHealing #NativeCanada

'A #groundbreaking #ceremony was held in #HarrisonMills for the planned #Stsailes #CommunityCare Campus, which will be owned and operated by the Sts’ailes #FirstNation .

Clinic director Angela George says the facility is an #opportunity to #restore #Indigenous ways around #health and #wellness while #weaving it together with the best of today’s #medicines .'