b'HUMAN RESOURCESTHE ISET PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING, BY AGREEMENT, TO FIRST NATIONS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS CANADA TO SUPPORT FIRST NATIONS SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INITIATIVES AND OPPORTUNITIES LEADING TO SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT. Saskatchewan. SITAG is also part of themental health (anxiety, depression,needs. Through the leadership of skilled, FNLMS within the ISET Program. grief, stress). Through a one-on-onegrassroots facilitators, clients are taken Saskatchewan First Nation communitiesrelationship between a community-basedthrough a process that will help them have taken action to address clientscase worker and client, the Life Mappingto identify challenges that have held multi-generational reliance on Social/ process helps to foster understandingthem back in the past and construct a Income Assistance Programs. Recently,of the importance of mental healthplan that will address those challenges. collaborative efforts between community- and may involve referral to servicesJobFocus is designed for clients who based Income Assistance Programsand supports.require foundational support, and inspires and local ISET Program servicemotivation and confidence to move providers created a grassroots programCertain sections of Life Mapping emergedforward in a different way. To deepen the designed to respond to clients with veryout of the Saskatchewan Indian Institutesupport provided to clients, JobFocus different needs.of Technologies (SIIT) JobFocus program,facilitators are trained in Mental Health which is a case management programFirst Aid, where they develop skills in A group of Saskatchewan Firstdesigned to facilitate forward movementidentifying and immediately dealing with Nation technicians, part of the largeramong groups of clients with foundationalmental health crises. network of employment agencies across Saskatchewan called the SITAG network, gathered regularly to discuss needs, challenges and opportunities, resulting in the co-design of reinvigorated case management tools and processes. The group produced a revised SITAG Case Management Model that added a new planning regime to the existing Career Mapping model, which focuses on career and employment development activities. The new planning regime reflects the pre-career development and foundational supports that many clients need as a precursor to career development activities. The Life Mapping case management model was created for implementation with clients who are not yet ready to talk about careers and would benefit from starting their journey at a different point. The Life Map outlines activities that are pre-career development supports. Thewww.westwindaviation.caMap also captures supports needed for(306) 652-9121dealing with circumstances that affect www.afn.ca 95'