Sector: Healthcare
Website: www.porcupinehu.on.ca
Contact: Jenna Labrecque, Public Health Nurse: RN, BScN, BA – jenna.labrecque@porcupinehu.on.ca & 705-335-6101 EXT 6202 | Amy Ouimette, RN, BScN, Public health nurse infectious diseases & clinical services – amy.ouimette@porcupinehu.on.ca & 705-335-6101 ext 6207
Phone: 705-335-6101
Location: 4 Ash Street, ON P5N 2C8
Offer prenatal classes, answer questions regarding breastfeeding and provide support to breastfeeding moms. A sexual health nurse is available regularly in consenting high schools to make it easier for students to access clinical services and to provide confidential counseling on: sexual behaviors, personal responsibility and decision making, relationships and assertiveness (including techniques for negotiating safer sex), methods of contraception’s including abstinence, prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections, sexual orientation and sexual assault/ abuse. Regular sexual health clinics, with a variety of services are also available.
Funding source: Municipal governments, along with a variety of federal and provincial ministries, provide the funding for the health unit’s activities.
