Youth Life Promotions

Core components of the program include:

• Providing preventative support to youth to support better mental health outcomes;
• Fostering youth leadership opportunities and co-development of programming;
• Youth Culture Camps: The camps provide youth with access to water and land based activities.
• Facilitating access to and knowledge exchanges with Elders/Traditional Knowledge Holders; and
• Cultural teachings, traditional medicines, food education, language retention and reclamation.

Program Goals:

• Gain access to supports to nurture and sustain mental well-being;
• Access new ways of knowing, understanding, problem-solving and decision making;
• Be immersed in Indigenous knowledge and ways of being;
• Gain access to ceremonies, medicines, languages, teachings and traditional foods; and,
• Gain access to water and land-based skills and cultural practices.

Service Delivery

Direct-Service User Supports:

• Supports individuals through one to one service provision and peer counselling;
• Facilitate a plan of care and if required a case management approach to service delivery;
• Encourage the participation of two-spirit and indigenous LGBTQ+ youth through inclusive and diverse programming.

Participant Based Supports:

• Promoting Indigenous rights moving toward self-determination and leadership development;
• Facilitate sharing circles that include formative teachings and discussion;
• Transmission of cultural knowledge through storytelling and peer based activities;
• Facilitate knowledge transfer on traditional medicines and food (use, storage, medicine bags. growing\picking, caring for, and preparing); and
• Promote cultural language-reclamation and retention.

Culture Camps

• Culture camps provide community based activities throughout the year including indigenous seasonal calenders (mid-winter, ) seasonal holidays, scheduled breaks and after school; and,
• Facilitating access to and knowledge exchange with Elders and traditional knowledge keepers.