The 2022 Tackling Trauma Conference will feature the impacts of trauma on individuals, families, the workplace and the community. This will include presentations from agencies and trauma experts that are addressing trauma and bringing awareness and education to the mainstream society. We are please to introduce you to our speakers.
KEYNOTE: Chief Cadmus Delorme
Chief Cadmus Delorme, Cowessess First Nation
Chief Cadmus Delorme, a Cree and Saulteaux, is the Chief of the Cowessess First Nation. Chief Delorme graduated from Cowessess Community Education Centre in 2000. He later moved to Regina to pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Certificate in Hospitality, Tourism and Gaming Entertainment Management from the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv), and a Master of Public Administration from the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. Recently, he has completed an Institute of Corporate Directors designation.
In 2012, Chief Delorme received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, recognizing his student leadership and the hospitality he showed to Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, when they visited FNUniv. He was also named one of CBC Saskatchewan’s Future 40, which celebrates the province’s new generation of leaders, builders and change-makers under the age of 40.
In 2019, Chief Delorme was re-elected to a second term in office. Under his leadership, Cowessess First Nation has focused on economic self-sustainability for its nation and people and has moved forward on renewable energy, agriculture, efficiency in land use initiatives that have created both current and future business opportunities.
This past year, Chief Delorme faced one of the hardest moments as Chief when the Saulteaux and Cree First Nation made international headlines with the discovery of potentially 751 unmarked graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School. Shortly after, Cowessess made headlines again as the first First Nations community to sign an agreement with Ottawa that returns jurisdiction over children in care to the community. Federal legislation overhauling Indigenous child welfare was passed in 2019 and came into force last year.
Chief Delorme lives with his wife Kimberly, brother-in-law, daughter and two son’s on Cowessess First Nation.
Chief Delorme’s keynote November 2nd at 10:30am
Presentation title: Community Trauma
See our conference schedule for more details
Thank you to Wiegers Financial & Benefits for stepping up as KeyNote Sponsor Of Chief Cadmus’ Presentation
Who Should Attend?
Tackling Trauma conference will interest those who are providing a direct service, support roles as well as those assisting those dealing with trauma.
Our target audience includes emergency response workers, crisis workers, healthcare workers, front-line workers, social workers, family support workers, parent aides, clinicians and those working for not-for-profit community organizations, First Nations and child and family services.