Frontline Worker Training Programs

Five-Day Frontline Worker Training (Facilitated by Roy W. Guerra Mella, MACP)

A comprehensive training series integrating clinical and cultural teachings, including:

• Trauma-Informed Practice
• Motivational Interviewing
• Seven Grandfathers Teachings
• Solution-Focused Approaches
• PTSD Awareness
• Suicide Safety
• Indigenous Worldviews & Ceremony-Based Practice
• Mental Health First Response
• Professional Ethics & Boundaries

This training prepares frontline workers to provide culturally respectful, informed, and safe support in community.

Peer Navigation Training

Culturally grounded training for peer support workers, focusing on:

• Detox & Treatment Navigation
• Housing & Shelter Access
• System Navigation & Advocacy
• Relapse Prevention & Wellness Planning
• Cultural Safety
• Documentation & Case Notes
• Building Healthy Boundaries
• Partnership Engagement
• Crisis De-escalation

This program strengthens Indigenous peer work and prepares participants for real-world frontline roles.

Cultural Workshops & Teachings

Ribbon Skirt Workshops (FNHA-Funded)

Teaching sewing, prayer, identity, and cultural pride through Ribbon Skirt creation, held in ceremony and guided by Indigenous Knowledge Holders.

Tobacco Tie Workshops

Traditional teachings focused on intention, offering, gratitude, and land connection.

Drum-Making Workshops

Hands-on creation of hand drums, including teachings of the heartbeat, spirit, and cultural responsibility.

Bannock-Making & Storytelling Circles

Cultural food preparation paired with oral teachings, community connection, and intergenerational knowledge sharing.

Land-Based Healing & Indigenous Knowledge

On-the-Land Medicine Harvesting

Participants learn traditional plant teachings, ethical harvesting, land stewardship, and medicine preparation.

Ceremony & Protocol Teachings

Honouring land, ancestors, and community through guided ceremony, songs, drumming, and seasonal teachings.

These practices reconnect individuals to identity, belonging, and ancestral ways of healing.