In honor of World Mental Health Day, please join us for a = timely and powerful training explores the current state of mental health among Indigenous Peoples in Canada through an honest, trauma-informed, and culturally grounded lens. Participants will gain insight into the root causes of mental health disparities, including colonization, intergenerational trauma, and systemic racism, while also recognizing Indigenous strength, healing, and resurgence.

We will explore both statistical realities and lived experiences, weaving together evidence-based research, community wisdom, and real-world examples from Indigenous contexts. The training provides an opportunity to learn how social determinants of health — such as housing, income, education, and access to culturally safe care — intersect with mental wellness.

This course also uplifts Indigenous-led approaches to healing, including land-based wellness, traditional knowledge, and community-based care systems. Learners will walk away with greater awareness, practical tools for culturally safe engagement, and a renewed commitment to supporting the mental wellness of Indigenous Peoples in respectful and meaningful ways.

Joyce is a consultant, educator, and advocate of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sts’ailes, and Métis heritage. With over a decade of experience, her work is grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems, relational accountability, and advancing decolonization and anti-racism across institutions and communities.

Joyce’s early life in the foster care system shaped her awareness of how policies and structures impact Indigenous children, families, and futures. This lived experience informs how she moves through her work today centering relationship, responsibility, and practical action that leads to meaningful systems change.

Her professional journey spans consulting, facilitation, curriculum development, and advisory roles with organizations seeking to transform how they lead, learn, and serve. Joyce is known for creating environments where honesty is possible, where people can locate themselves within systems, and where growth is both personal and collective.

Joyce brings more than fifteen years of post-secondary education to her practice and is currently completing a Bachelor of Integrated Studies with a minor in Communications at the University of the Fraser Valley. Her multidisciplinary education, drawing from kinesiology, communications, and sociology, strengthens her ability to bridge human behaviour, systems thinking, and relational practice.