We had an amazing evening of sharing and fun on May 26 2021 with the awesome youth at the Military Family Resource Centre on 5 Wing Goose Bay in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL. We had a great discussion! Big thanks to the youth who attended and Heather & Erin for inviting SHIELD Coordinator Denise Cole to present on relationships, sexual health, and consent.

SHIELD partnered with Lawrence O’ Brien Arts Centre to host a youth workshop with Eastern Owl on May 20, 2021. It was an awesome evening of drumming, singing, and sharing with local Labrador youth. SHIELD Coordinator Denise Cole also presented sexual health information. Eastern Owl is an award winning Indigenous women’s drum/music group from Newfoundland and we were so grateful to have them share with us!

Thank you to the sponsors that made this possible and the youth who attended.

Every Thursday from December 2020 to February 2021, SHIELD held weekly jam sessions at the Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre. Students aged 12 – 18 from the Lake Melville area were invited to come out and play music with their peers and fellow musicians in a safe space where all were included!

Students who attended played music on SHIELDs beautiful new instruments and some even brought their own! At the end of each session attendees left with music in their soul and a little bit of sexual health information in their pocket.

Thank you to the Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre for making these events possible!

(Note: More photos will be uploaded soon)

The HIVAID campaign was created using Catie.ca as a source in order to spread knowledge and awareness around a dangerous but treatable STBBI (Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infection). When left untreated, HIV can do serious damage to the body, but medicine has come a long way and HIV is no longer a death sentence! Many people live long and healthy lives with HIV undergoing proper treatment. To learn more about HIV, how it transmits, how it’s treated and how it may affect you, take a look at our #HIVAID campaign!

To learn more contact us at the SHIELD Project or:
– Labrador Grenfell Health
– Healing Our Nations
– Canadian Aboriginal Aids Network
– AIDS Committee NL
– Or your local health care provider

Live launch of Ethan Angnatok’s music video at Nain Youth Centre!

So thankful to everyone involved in this awesome project! Including NunatuKavut Youth Community Engagement Project who made the video & Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre who provided the skill & space for the audio recording.

Special thanks to Nain Youth Centre staff for hosting us this week for multiple events and the launch. Gratitude to Labrador Grenfell Health & Nunatsiavut Government’s DHSD for all the support as well as MusiCounts. Shout out to our funders the Public Health Agency of Canada and Government of Newfoundland & Labrador and sponsor the Labrador Friendship Centre.

And the biggest thanks to Ethan Angnatok and all the performers who trusted SHIELD with their talent through the Labrador Unplugged virtual performance competition.