Check out Voices, our monthly newsletter, and discover how the Talking Stick app is helping to engage Indigenous people, empowering them, and strengthening their culture and well-being.
JULY
2024
We have data! Innovation and impact are the keys to it’s success as we launch into year three!
2024
Talking Stick partners with Toronto’s MAP Centre. FirstAlerts issues its first alert! Onstage at e-Health 2024, Vancouver. TetherAll – connection to care. After two years, the numbers talk!
2024
FirstAlerts – an emergency alerting system in Talking Stick designed for First Nations is launched at James Smith Cree Nation. Talking Stick receives National recognition during the 2024 Bell Let’s Talk campaign.
2023
Talking Stick chats with Spirit Bear, Cindy Blackstock and the incredible team and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. Providing support to veterans, and the expansion of the Talking Stick Internship Program.
2023
Talking Stick turns ONE! A look back at our first year in stories and numbers, and a peek at what is coming in year two!
2023
Introducing FSIN Youth Chief Hailey Rose; media buzz: Voices highlights First Nations triumphs and welcomes new faces to the Talking Stick team.
2023
Dive into the FSIN Wellness Conference, celebrating Indigenous women leaders, and Big River First Nation’s grand vision unfolds.
2023
Celebrating Indigenous culture and teaching through the music of Robert Gladue, The Talking Stick team engages at FSIN Assembly, and Dakota Dunes prioritizes staff wellness with Talking Stick.
2023
Lauren’s journey to empowerment in “Cycle-Breaker: Taking Back My Name,” the celebration of National Ribbon Skirt Day, and get a glimpse of the light shining on Talking Stick’s Peer Advocates.
DEC
2022
Talking Stick’s Laurie-Lee Daniels at the World Cup, the first cohort of SIIT Students complete their placements, and an Interview with retired Indigenous RCMP Sergeant Karen Pelletier.
NOV
2022
Talking Stick gains wider attention in Canadian Healthcare Tech Magazine, peer advocate Teagan Littlechief sings at the Grey Cup and a Veteran’s story by Victor Sanderson.
2022
Presenting the new Talking Stick website, how we reach students in the classroom and Alyse’s story: Dialysis patient earns university credit via Talking Stick.
2022
Acknowledging the victims and families of James Smith Cree First Nation, supporting post-secondary students with practicum hours, and Chelsea’s Story: How One Conversation Can Save a life.
2022
How a Sixties Scoop survivor is turning hardship into helping, Talking Stick guests share how important anonymous conversations can really be with real-time usage patterns and insights.
2022
Talking Stick launches! A free chat app available to every First Nations person in Saskatchewan, a program that has created more than 200 new jobs for First Nations people in the province.