Tulattavik is pleased to present you a summary of the Ungava Tulattavik Health Center’s General Assembly Meeting, which was held in Kuujjuaq at the end of June. All the directors came to present the state of the situation in their management.
Hiring students in health services is possible only once the student has completed their second year of studies.
Congratulations to those two students who decided to help the community by working at Tulattavik.
This summer, all existing medical records will be digitized into the electronic medical record. Gradually, as of November 2025, the records will become accessible for electronic consultation.
1. Innilavik Patient Transit, is a very important point of service for Tulattavik. More than 4600 users have stayed at Innillavik last year.
To better welcome and accommodate users, renovations and Facility Enhancements were made throughout the last year:
A chairlift for elderly people and disabled patients was installed in August in the staircase. Patients with mobility impair will be able to access the 2nd floor and use the upstairs living area.
2. Concerning the Dorval warehouse, I want to mention that we are very proud to announce that Tulattavik has a fully operational warehouse in Dorval since June 2024, streamlining reception and distribution.
This new facility in Dorval allows us to reduce lead time from order to delivery, especially for medical supplies.3. The last point concerning Administrative Services and Logistic, concerns UTHC annual budget. After having put in place different measures to diminish a possible deficit, I am very proud to say that Tulattavik had achieved balanced budget for 2024-2025.
Tulattavik is now working to deliver a balanced budget for the years 2025-2026 and mitigating next year potential deficit.
1. Tulattavik is continuously working to optimizing recruitment of employees.
Tulattavik employees are primarily based in Kuujjuaq and travel to various communities. The recruitment and involvement of local workers is essential. This ensures that Nunavimmiut receive culturally adapted, accessible, and responsive care, strengthening the connection between all UTHC services and the communities we serve.
rh.ungava@ssss.gouv.qc.ca or by phone at 819-964-2905 #2462.2. Tulattavik is working hard to improve Inuit working conditions with the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services and Inuulitsivik. We are concerned and want to have new measures to attract and retain Inuit employees because only 1 person out of 4 is a local worker.
The year of 2024-2025 was a challenging year for the direction of technical services. We have many financial implications and our budget allocation is very low to ensure the perennity of all our infrastructures.
Tulattavik's long term vision helps us to focus our limited resources on important projects. We continuously make preventive interventions, but they are increasing year after year. Nevertheless, preventive maintenance interventions help reduce corrective interventions which is much more expensive.
Tulattavik has over 180 buildings to maintain in 11 different communities and 372 apartments. Over the last 2 years, Tulattavik received 80 new apartments now accessible for employees.
For 2025, we will be able to have 40 new apartments to accommodate our staff.
To preserve and modernize our aging infrastructure, a substantial initiative must be undertaken soon. To this end, we have established a comprehensive seven-year renovation plan, valued at $82 million, which aims to refurbish 19 buildings across five communities.
Our infrastructure requests are in the hands of the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services, which will tell us which projects to prioritize for the years to come.
I will get back to you on this matter as soon as we are informed of the projects that will be prioritized.
Rehabilitation Services faces many challenges to ensure the youths are well taken care of and have everything they need. All teams are resilient and devoted to the well-being of all youths placed in our services. They often go above and beyond our actual mandate to support the youth in their development.
Here is an overview of last year's contribution.
1. Each of the 8 rehabilitation units receives country food. We are trying to give the youths at least one country food meal per week. However, it is not always feasible, but we are trying to put in place a system with hunters and fishermen to have regular supplies. Since the products to make Bannock are easy to obtain, it is available quite often. Kids appreciate it!
2. Each unit has culturally relevant activities. It differs from one unit to the other depending on the availabilities, the clients and the communities. We do our best to do as much as possible.
3. For the two units in the South, we partnered with Makivvik to bring elderly people and country food 3 to 4 times a year and with the Southern Quebec Inuit Association. A lot of different activities are done with the Southern Quebec Inuit Association. Our collaboration is very precious.
4. All clients have the right to speak Inuktitut.
5. We recently got the funding from Makivvik and we opened 5 part-time community worker positions. Their job will be to ensure clients keep ties with their culture while away from home (e.g., storytelling, preparing traditional dishes, traditional games, sewing and beading, throat singing, soapstone carving, etc.), to accompany the youths at medicalor court appointments, offer translation when needed and to works in collaboration with Makivvik, Nunavimmi Ilagiit Papatauvinga or other Inuit associations.
6. Rehabilitation services are far from being perfect, but Tulattavik’s employees are doing everything in their power to better themselves, to raise the quality of our services, and to level up!
Rehabilitation services values are:
KINDNESS-INTEGRITY-RESPECT-HOPE-COMMITMENT
Our slogan is LEVEL UP and encourage the youth to empowerment and to continue to become a better person.
Rehabilitation’s Guiding Principles are simple and legitimate.
Our decisions and practices are based on kindness and respect.
Our interventions are meant to be caring and consistent.
Our employees will be transparent, offering safety.
Every intervention is meant to be educative, not punitive.
We help youth to develop problem solving skills, empowering them by involving them in all decisions concerning them.
We make every effort to engage and collaborate with families to ensure that they play the fullest role possible in the lives of their children.
We promote traditional, cultural and on the land activities, country food, and the use of Inuktitut. We want to inspire Inuit pride.
We help children and youth to believe in their potential, telling them if you can see it, you can be it.
We always strive to connect with youth, helping them to connect with each other, family, caregivers.
Throughout the year, we collaborate with:
Social Services helps in school reintegration, plays an active role in community involvement, Atautsikut, coordinate activities during Spring Break, invite elders for Outdoor Activities, makes sure that the Food Bank has food to donate, is involved in Suicide Prevention Day.
2. Home care services are offered to the communities throughout the year, helping Elders meet their needs while remaining in their community.
While working to support individuals with diminished autonomy, Tulattavik employees embrace respect, confidentiality, transparency, flexibility, dignity, empowerment, and ensure compassionate and high-quality care.
Tulattavik employees offer:
Community Services is continuously expanding to answer the population’s needs.
Children who are under DYP care are in difficulty and in need of protection.
DYP’s employees’ interventions aim to
The primary goal is to keep the child with his family when possible and appropriate.
However, it may be decided that the child needs to live in another environment. In this case, DYP or the court examines the possibility of placing the child in the care of people who are significant in his life, such as his grandparents or another family member. DYP assesses their willingness and ability to take care of the child.
If placing the child with a significant person is impossible or inappropriate, another placement will be chosen based on the child’s needs.
In the last year, DYP worked in close collaboration with Nunavimmi Ilagiit Papatauvinga, the life project committee and foster family department to help promote cultural safety throughout Youth Protection intervention.
We are in important need of foster families in the Ungava region.
DYP also takes care of youth under the Criminal Justice Act which aims to prevent youth crime in ways that protect the public.
Tulattavik’s employees work very hard to promote youth’s rehabilitation and reintegration. They reserve the most serious intervention for the most serious crimes and want to reduce incarceration of non-violent young people.
DYP team is facing a critical situation:
Our goal is to increase our employees’ retention.
Tulattavik hopes that this overview of last year’s summary helps you to better understand the actions and activities put forward by UTHC for the benefit of the population as well as the challenges we face on a regular basis.
Tulattavik is always looking for solutions to provide health care and social services that suit the needs of the population.