Pathway of Well-Being
Aboriginal Health Bridging
Toolkit
May 2013
What is known?
 Balance
 Harmony
=
Path of Wellness
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What is the toolkit?
 Best practices
 Merging
perspectives
 Partnership
engagement
 Laddering and
transitions
 Communitybased
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How did the Toolkit develop?
A 2-phase initiative:
• Phase 1 – Case Studies
of four IAHLA institute
health programs to
learn about successes
and challenges
• Phase 2 – a wider
gathering of
information; findings
integrated with Phase 1
to develop the toolkit
Phase 1
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• Interviews
• Findings
Phase 2
• Interviews
• Findings
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Who is it for?
• Indigenous Adult &
Higher Learning
Association (IAHLA)
institutes
• Aboriginal communities
• *Public Post-Secondary
Institutions (PPSI)
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What are the ultimate goals?
 To create a practical, user
friendly guide
 To support the
development of health
practitioners
 To support the merge of
Western mainstream
health knowledge with
Aboriginal traditional
health knowledge
 To support COMMUNITYBASED EDUCATION
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How can Western and Aboriginal
views be merged?
By developing coconstructed health
knowledge and
health education
within the heart of
Aboriginal
communities.
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How can the toolkit be used?
 As a resource to help
map out a health care
educational
implementation plan
for your community
 To support
partnership
engagement
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What are the Essential Steps?
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Conduct a community
needs assessment
Assess the infrastructure
needs of the community
Determine program costs
Establish partnerships
with a PPSI and an IAHLA
institution
Plan the program
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Keys to a Successful Program
Form solid reciprocal relationships
Develop meaningful supports for students
Promote the program
Form strong relationships with practicum agencies
Provide cross-cultural education to partners
Combine Indigenous and Western pedagogies
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Further Research
Phase 2A examined:
1. Making
Practicums work
2. Taking advantage
of dual credit
programs
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• Interviews
• Findings
Phase 2
• Interviews
• Findings
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What are the benefits of practicum
placements?
Gaining hands-on experience
Applying classroom learning to practice
Learning to be part of a team
Working directly with patients/clients
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What issues need to be solved for
successful practicum placements?
Too few practicum sites
Cost of travel and childcare
Limited Cultural Awareness
Lack of formal relationships with local
health agencies
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What would you change?
• Orientation to practicum sites
• Support for child care challenges
• Walk through the unit and site
• Develop a mini toolkit in
consultation with students
• Focus on skills to be successful
• Cross-cultural awareness
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Dual Credits- “Kick-Start”
Dual credit – taking
advantage of special
courses relevant to the
transition to specific
programming
Graduation
Credit
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Dual Credits: The Advantages
These courses are
focussed on helping
transition students into
academic or vocational
programs (trades or
apprenticeship programs).
Graduation
Credit
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Community-Based Delivery
Students have a safety net that they can
reach out to whenever they need that tiny
bit of encouragement to continue forging
ahead. It also allows for our culture and
values to be incorporated into the
curriculum, which makes for a better
understanding of the people that they will
be caring for once they enter the
workforce... strengthens the individual and
the community... builds capacity within, by
having locally trained professionals working
in our hospitals and caring for our Elders.
Tracey Woods, Program Coordinator, GWES.
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The Pathway to Well-Being
We must be respectful and understand
that those institutions complete us in a
way; we need for our members to be
fully equipped to deal with today’s needs
in society. But we must find ways to
maintain our sovereignty, to maintain
and support our cultural learning, while
also making sure that our students can
move into those institutions at their most
excellent – well equipped with their
cultural tools, their cultural knowledge,
and their information. How do we do
that? It is the responsibility not only of
Aboriginal institutes and communities,
but also those partners that are
important to us.
Dr. Jeannette Armstrong
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