AVFN Nadaca

12/15/2025

I will be in the office Tuesday, December 16 Wednesday December 17 8:30 - 4pm and Thursday December 8:30am until 12noon. The Health Centre is Closing at noon for the Christmas Holidays, I will be back in the office January 6, 2026.

12/15/2025

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Burnout, Boundaries & Self-Care
In partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association

📅 December 16th
🕕 6:00pm – 7:00pm
💻 Online via Zoom

Learn how to recognize burnout, set healthy boundaries, and support your well-being during stressful times.

📧 To sign up, please email: RCcoordinator@nsnwa.net

Hosted by the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association – Resiliency Centre

Contact:
Trinity Maloney, Resiliency Centre Coordinator
902-332-5985 | RCcoordinator@nsnwa.net

12/15/2025

You can now access the report for the Collaborative Process on the Second-Generation Cut-off and Section 10 Voting Thresholds.

The report outlines the feedback and recommendations received from the Indigenous Advisory Process on the design of the consultation phase.

12/15/2025

12/15/2025

Sober/clean/addiction - free parents, caregivers, even friends and family make a positive impact on their children’s lives. Even adult children.

💠 Sober parents and significant others can more readily create a stable, supportive, and nurturing environment.

©Copyright Addiction Actually

💠 This in turn can nurture healthier emotional and physical recovery. better physical care and stronger interpersonal relationships.

💠 Sobriety, being clean and having emotional sobriety allows parents and others to be more present and more emotionally available.

💠 Overall reducing the likelihood of children being exposed to unhealthy or sometimes harmful situations, such as neglect or abuse, which are more common in environments where substance use is prevalent.

💠 Of course not everyone in active addiction is an abuser, or neglectful. Though when the addictive substance or behaviour is in the family, or friendship, it tends to take a central role.

💠 For children of sober, clean, addiction free parents, there is a better foundation for developing healthy coping mechanisms, emotional intelligence, strong social skills.

💠 Overall, a sober home often fosters a sense of physical safety, emotional safety, and consistency. ©Copyright Addiction Actually

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64889/
https://www.wellbrookrecovery.com/.../breaking-the-cycle...

https://delamere.com/.../the-impact-of-addiction-on...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3725219/

12/14/2025

Mi'kmaw is the language of the Mi'kmaq. Reclaiming Mi'kmaw language is an act of liberation for Indigenous people and allyship of community peace for

12/14/2025

Election Results Congratulations!!🥳

12/13/2025

The more time you spend sober, the more you realize that everything in life is survivable without alcohol.

12/13/2025

I loved looking at the Grinch right in his eyes😊😂