The Youth Life Promotion program is founded on the principles of self-determination and cultural reclamation for urban Indigenous youth. A core aspect of the YLP program are youth culture camps. The camps will provide youth with access to water and land-based activities. Another core aspect involved facilitating access to and knowledge exchanges with Elders and knowledge keepers. These knowledges and ways of being are inherently active and will blend learning with being on the land.
Goal:
To support the wholistic development and provide a continuum of care services for youth-at-risk, including addressing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing.
Objectives:
- Gain access to supports to nurture and sustain mental wellbeing
- Access new ways of knowing, understanding, problem-solving, and decision making
- Be immersed in Indigenous knowledges and ways of being
- Gain access to ceremonies, medicines, languages, teachings, and traditional foods
- Gain access to water and land-based skills and cultural practices
Age group:
The YLP program services youth ages 13-24.
Example of programing:
The YLP program can offer services and actives such as art based camp activities, ceremonies, nutrition/traditional food cooking workshops, historical education, traditional crafts, physical and recreational activities, drumming, singing, dancing, community feasts ect.
Youth Life Promotion
Email: ylp@nbifc.org
Phone: 705-472-2811 ext 208