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Two teams provide the dental services in the KTC communities, the KTC Community Dental Program Team and the Northern Lights Dental Team. With both teams working in our communities, we provide comprehensive services by integrating our two programs and ensuring community members receive complete dental services.

KTC Community Dental Program:
The KTC Community Dental program provides an early childhood dental program aimed at children ages 0-12, caregivers, and pregnant women living in our nations, focusing on preventing tooth decay and dental disease. This program aims to improve the oral health and well-being of our nation’s members by having our team support and encourages families to make oral health and oral care a regular part of day-to-day family life.
Dental screenings, fluoride varnish application, and one on one or group oral health education sessions, as well as referrals/recommendations to the community dentist, are offered by this team. The team visits daycares, playschools/ headstart, health centers, and schools and participates in community events such as health fairs, career fairs, teddy bear fairs, and other community get-togethers.
To learn more about the KTC community dental program, don’t hesitate to contact the dental program lead, Cindy Chapados, at cindy.chapados@ktcadmin.ca.

Northern Lights Dental Team
Our team of dental professionals provides culturally safe dental services in the KTC communities. The team’s goal is to prevent hospitalizations for dental infections by making earlier interventions. In so doing, our goal is to restore oral health as one part of rebuilding overall health.
We staff each health center with the same dentists, dental assistants, and hygienists, which allows the dental team to develop a relationship with the health center staff and community, more like an old-fashioned practice. This continuity of care builds trust, improves communication, and leads to better oral health. Services offered but are not limited to: exams, X-rays, emergency, fluorides, sealants, cleaning, fillings, root canals, crowns, bridges, dentures, and extractions. Our dental hygienists also work in the KTCEA schools complementing the COHI program by offering cleanings and sealants.
To learn more about the Northern Lights Dental Team or book an appointment, please contact your community health center.

Includes assessment for young children and supporting families to help children access Headstart and other school programming appropriate for their age. Support will be provided for parents whose children may have behavioural and/or learning issues. Assistance on how to help children regulate their emotions (to lessen frustration and tantrums) and develop social competence (friends) is an important part of this support.

Includes education and awareness for families and service providers. Support can be provided through home visitation in partnership with Maternal Child Health Programs to work on family and child goals to improve children’s development and family coping. Diagnostic and assessment services can also be coordinated in the community without need to travel to Edmonton.

The diagnosis of FASD is not about labelling children and pathologizing them, but rather, to plan and design activities, learning opportunities and support revenant to an individual child.

These services assist people who have chronic and acute illnesses receive the care they need in their home or community. Care provided in these familiar settings allows community members to be close to their loved ones as long as possible and to keep their independence. Home and community care may include nursing care, personal care such as bathing and foot care, home support such as meal preparation, and in-home respite care (the family finds the caregiver to provide respite).

This program provides mental health, emotional and cultural support services to eligible former Indian Residential School students and their families throughout all phases of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. Resolution Health Support Program Services are safe, confidential, respectful, and non-judgmental.

Regional injury prevention program aimed at reducing the impact of unintentional injuries among Alberta First Nations.

• Coordinate culturally-appropriate injury prevention education, awareness and training
• Provide support to First Nations implementing injury prevention activities
• Adapt evidence based programs to meet community needs

Questions?
injuryprev@ktcadmin.ca

To improve health outcomes associated with First Nations maternal, infant, child and family health. The areas of focus include prenatal health, postnatal health and newborn care, nutrition, early literacy and learning, and physical, emotional and mental health.

KTC facilitates regular counselling services through non-insured benefits provided by FNIHB. Psychologists are available in all member nations to provide psychological services to individuals, couples or groups. Counselling includes, but not limited to a variety of challenges such as depression, anxiety, adjusting to change, relationship challenges and coping with the loss of a loved one.

Counselling is confidential and no fee is required to access service through any of the health centres in each of the KTC member nations. After hours counselling is available in addition to learning sessions in the evenings on a number of different topics ranging from anxiety management to parenting strategies.

We provide support to Treaty 8 and KTC communities to reduce alcohol and other substance abuse within their communities, including a focus on opioid abuse prevention.

These services are for the provision of primary health care in communities which includes postnatal follow up and teaching, providing immunizations, encouraging physical activity, facilitating community education sessions and providing primary care services for common conditions during scheduled clinics.

Maximizing children’s independence related to their self-care, fine motor, visual motor, visual perceptual, sensory processing, or executive functioning/life skills. Services may involve observations, screenings, and/or informal or formal assessment in a variety of community settings (e.g., Headstart and Daycare programs). Individualized goals and strategies may be developed in order to help inform programming, and follow-up services may be provided by a Registered Occupational Therapist and/or an Occupational Therapist Assistant.

Respite is a short period of rest for caregivers and families from the demands of caring for a child with special needs.   Respite care workers provide care and supervision of the child, either in or outside the family home, during non-academic program hours.  The Respite Care Program will work with families to create an individualized care plan that meets the needs of each child and their caregiver(s), recruit and train respite care workers, and target opportunities to allow for family involvement in social and cultural events.

Supporting the development of strong speech and communications skills. Services may include assessment and treatment for speech delays, swallowing and feeding disorders, cognitive-communicative disorders, among others. Services are provided by a registered Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and also include pre-literacy and literacy skills. The SLP works closely with staff in the Health Centres, Head Starts, and Daycares to support children and links with KTCEA SLP when children are entering school so they can continue to receive support.