July

“Nə́c̓aʔmat, nə́c̓aʔmat, nə́c̓aʔmat,” said Musqueam Elder Shane Pointe as he opened the May 2019 Representative Assembly (RA) meeting commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Commitment on Cultural Safety and Humility in Health Services. Pronounced “nuts amaht” in English, the Coast Salish expression means “we are one.”

The Provincial OCD Program at BC Children’s Hospital is actively recruiting Greater Vancouver youth (7 to 19 years old) who have obsessive compulsive disorder (moderate or higher severity) to participate in a pilot trial of intensive treatment (i.e., exposure and response prevention). The goal of the study is to determine how much treatment youth need to get better and whether different ways of providing the treatment impact how well it works.