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Gloria Daybutch<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week, CACHC\u2019s co-chair Nicole Chammartin reflected on what it meant for her<\/a>, as Executive Director of two Manitoba-based CHCs, to be able to spend time with CHC colleagues from across Canada during the Ontario provincial Community Health Centres annual conference, in the Toronto area. Her reflections were inspired by the presentation of an award by Ontario’s provincial CHCs association to three Ontario CHCs that will soon offer the first supervised injection services in Ontario, and how the values, commitments and goals expressed throughout the Ontario conference align very closely with those shared by Community Health Centres in Manitoba.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, I\u2019ve also been reflecting on proceedings from the recent conference, and my thoughts are informed by the fact that today, June 21st, is National Aboriginal Day across Canada (in saying this, I respectfully acknowledge that the concept and celebration of \u00ab\u00a0National Aboriginal Day\u00a0\u00bb summons very different emotions and reactions for first peoples throughout Turtle Island).<\/span><\/p>\n

It was encouraging to see truth and reconciliation front and centre at the Ontario Community Health Centres conference, including very powerful keynote addresses to the 600-plus delegates by Senator Murray Sinclair<\/a> (Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) and Dr. Marcia Anderson<\/a> (Head of the Section of First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit Health at the University of Manitoba).<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to these very important calls to conscience and action, there was also the very moving presentation of the Ontario association\u2019s prestigious Joe Leonard Award to Gloria Daybutch, Executive Director of N\u2019Mninoeyaa Aboriginal Health Access Centre<\/a>, an Indigenous Community Health Centre serving seven First Nations and the city of Sault Ste. Marie, in Ontario. It was this presentation and what it signifies that resonates most with me today.<\/span><\/p>\n