Saralikitaaq – Community Social Pediatric Centre

Saralikitaaq is a Community Social Pediatric CENTRE housed at Miyoskamin, providing care for families living at Miyoskamin and the broader urban Indigenous community.

The integrated social medicine approach developed by Dr. Julien focuses on the needs, interests and fundamental rights of children in vulnerable circumstances. It creates a protective circle around the child by leveraging the child’s strengths together with the resources of their family and the key people in their life and their community, in a collaborative way.

Community social pediatrics is based on the idea of empowerment—the meaningful participation of the child and the engagement of their extended family and community—as well as cooperation with institutional resources. Their respective strengths provide leverage for daily action. Neighbours, Grands Amis volunteers, community organizations, local schools and daycare centres, family homes and institutions can come together like a village and create a caring, protective circle around our children.