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This accession consists of a large extent of unprocessed audio-visual material, depicting primarily Federal health services across the Northwest Territories from the 1960s to the 1980s. These include slide presentations about a 50th anniversary celebration of the St. Theresa’s Hospital in Chesterfield Inlet, a presentation on nursing in the north and a presentation on the services provided by the Department of Health, which is also accompanied by audio presentations in four indigenous languages. As well, there is a large extent of photographs, audio recordings, and video.

The records relate to H&SS committees, including the community wellness committee under the umbrella of Integrated Community Services. Other records relate to the Aboriginal Wellness Coalition, the Repatriation Task Team, the Committee on Nursing Education, minutes of the Director of Child Welfare meeting, the Program and Policy Development Committee, Regional Meetings on Strategic Development, the Northwest Territories Pregnancy Risk Score Steering Committee, the Mental Health Task Team, the Joint Standing Committee-Independent Seniors, the Subsidy Adoption Policy Agreement, the Community Empowerment Committee, the Addictions and Mental Health Committee, the ad hoc Committee on Sexual Assault, the Advanced Nursing Skills In-Service Program, and the Coroner's Report Review Committee.

Records include files related to the addictions reform program, the decentralization of the Mackenzie Regional Health and Social Services, a departmental policy manual and files from management committees.

Included are files related to promotional materials produced by the department. Subjects and titles include safe sex, "Women's Health Care Rights, "Getting Ready for your Visit to your Health Care Provider", women's self esteem. There are also records related to abortion, AIDS, and the provision of dental services. The videos are primarily promotional videos produced by or for the department. The video pertain to proper nutrition and include the following titles: "Northern Nutrition", "Facts about Junk Food", "Healthy Eating and Exercise the Northern Way", "Buying Food", "Power over Diabetes", "Nutrition During Pregnancy", "Infant Nutrition" and "Dene Bush Food and Canada's Food Guide". Some of the videos are available in English, Dogrib, Chipewyan, South Slavey, North Slavey and Inuktitut.

Records include publications, reports and posters. The material covers a variety of topics including community wellness reports, cancer fact sheets and reports, seniors information guides, reports on child welfare and the social agenda. The material also includes health promotion materials concentrating mainly on smoking. There are several issues of the internal newsletter "The Feel Good Gazette" and five promotional posters for primary community care.

Records include files from the Territorial Hospital Insurances Board, the Senior Management and Executive Committees of the Department of Health and Social Services, Ministerial and Deputy Minister chronos, program files related to the Brighter Futures program, Special Committee on Health and Social Services files, NWT Health Care Association, strategic planning records including the Minister's Forum on Health and Social Services Forum held in 1999 and the resulting report, "Our Communities, Our Decisions: Let's get on with it."

Records are related to various committees of the Department of Health and Social Services related to health and social services issues including child and family welfare, nurse mentorship, midwifery and the regional health authorities.

Records include Regional Health Board meetings; nutrition promotion programs; community visit reports from the regional nutritionist; reports from the Brighter Futures funding program; committees involved in health promotion and awareness on issues such as family violence and HIV/AIDS; arctic contaminants; and women's health issues such as maternal/cord blood monitoring efforts.

Records relate to the NWT Advisory Committee on Immunization, the Infection Control Committee and the NWT Lab Advisory Committee.

Records consist of chronos files from the Minister and Deputy Minister, 1996-1997.

Records include correspondence with the regional health boards, records of committees such as the Maternal and Perinatal Committee and the NWT Health Care Association. It also includes policy and directive documents and records related to recruitment and retention in the health care field.

Records relate to the decentralization and consolidation of health and social services operations at Headquarters and within the regions.

Records date from 1996-2000 and relate to the Brighter Futures funding program and the Community Action Fund program.

Records include files related to homecare, seniors' housing needs, AIDS, handicap services and pharmacare. The records also include copies of meeting minutes from various regional health authorities as well as files from the NWT Health Coordinating Committee.

Records include meeting packages from the Joint Senior Management Committee and the Joint Leadership Committee of the Department of Health and Social Services.

Records include chronos from the offices of the Minister and Deputy Minister.

Records date from 1994-2002 and consist of correspondence between the Department of Health and Social Services and community health boards.

Records relate to seniors services and programs, as well as residential schools.