Yukon First Nation Health Promotion Fall School

In response to the Yukon First Nations Health Promotion Spring School 2007, which brought together community-based First Nations health resource workers from across the Yukon to develop ways of promoting health on issues of importance to their communities, a second course was held in the fall of 2008 at the recommendation of the Yukon First Nations Health & Social Commission. Altogether 31 front-line health resource workers from across the Yukon participated in the course. In addition to the above health priorities, injury prevention was added to the second course.

We have recently synthesized both ‘Spring School’ and ‘Fall School’ results along with work we’ve done to follow up on recommendations for actions that emerged from the training sessions, and are currently seeking funding to print the summary report.

“This letter is in support of partnering with the Arctic Health Research Network (AHRN) and the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) Health & Social Development Department to endorse the proposal for having a “Fall School” session. The “Spring School” session was supported in previous years and was considered a great success. The two major outcomes of the “Spring School” were the increased capacity building and enhanced knowledge translation for the participating persons and their communities.”

Grand Chief Andy Carvill, Council of Yukon First Nations. 29 July 2008