Wasa-Nabin
Urban Indigenous Youth
AGES: 13-18
Program Components
A safe and culturally appropriate environment for Indigenous youth which:
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Facilitate the assessment of required services and identifies areas of difficulty experienced by youth 13-18
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Supports for youth to discuss issues that are creating barriers for their success and ability to make sound choices
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Facilitates support circles and peer counselling opportunities
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Increase access to healthy and safe activities for Indigenous youth.
Youth in Care
We provide activities that will have a positive impact on the youth's family, whether the family is biological or foster.
The Project will:
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Including a focus and outreach component for youth in care that may not have access to their culture
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Increase support and culturally appropriate services to non-Indigenous adoptive and foster parents of Indigenous youth
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Develop and implement protocol arrangements to better support culturally appropriate interventions
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Work with parents to facilitate access to culturally appropriate services
Education
Our youth program will provide intervention or alternatives to such instituinal involement through:
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The provisions of school attendance and home-work support, and school suspension supports.
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The development of activities which encourage changes of behaviours toward their peers and authorities.
Institutional Intervention
This component of the program will address issues through:
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Collaboration with Kizhaay Anishinaabe Niin (I Am A Kind Man)
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Involvement of elders
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Appropriate and healthy problem-solving and decision-making workshops (self-esteem, positive self identity and healthy relationships)
Healthy Eating & Physical Development
Recent studies have shown that obesity in children can be a reult of improper nutrition, stress and lack of physical activity. All these issues are caused by poverty.
The Wasa-Nabin Program will address this by:
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Providing opportunities to make nutritious meals and snacks as an integrated component of the program
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Education and awareness to enable program participants to make informed nutritional choices
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Provide safe and healthy opportunities by which youth can enjoy non-threatening/non-competitive physical activities
