Developing a healing and wellness program for First Nations boys and men: The Mishoomsinaang Mentorship Program
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Very little is known about men’s lived experiences with, or tangible barriers to, accessing or receiving support for mental health, substance use, and violence challenges. This paper describes the development of a healing and wellness program for boys and men, developed by men in a First Nation community in southern Ontario, Canada, drawing on local data collected and using participatory action research. Men’s mental wellness was identified as a priority area after reviewing preliminary research findings from a community-wide survey; interviews with people with lived experiences with mental health, substance use, and/or violence challenges; and focus groups with service providers. Photovoice was then used as a form of participatory action research to develop a) a knowledge base on men’s health and well-being across the life course and b) a comprehensive, integrated, and culturally appropriate program of services for boys and men. Men who participated in the Photovoice study developed a program that supports Mino Bimaadiziwin, a way of life lived in accordance with original cultural teachings on the importance of Spiritual connectedness and how to live as Spiritual beings in harmony with all of Creation. We share how this community-driven research led to scalable program and recommendations to improve Indigenous boys and men’s mental health and wellness.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".