Aboriginal Children's Hurt & Healing (ACHH) Initiative: First Nation Community Health Video

The Aboriginal Children’s Hurt & Healing (ACHH) Initiative is a research initiative aimed at improvingIndigenous children’s healthcare experiences. The ACHH Initiative seeks to recognize the pain and hurtexperience of Indigenous children and youth by gathering individual stories and artwork to betterunderstand cultural differences for both the emotional and physical pain experience. The ACHHInitiative, in collaboration with several First Nations communities across the Mi’kma’ki and Wolastoqeyregions, offered conversation and art sessions to community members. A knowledge sharing videocommunicating community ideas from this work was developed, with youth identifying emotional paindepicted through artwork. This knowledge represents a profound cultural understanding of pain assomething that is experienced on multiple levels - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. This videowas produced by RPM Productions