Aboriginal sports get boost: AFN touts program to support communities

The Assembly of First Nations wants to keep more kids in the classroom and out of trouble with a major sports programming initiative announced Sunday morning at the University of Winnipeg.

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NWAC welcomes applications for the 2010 Helen Bassett Commemorative Student Award prized at $1,000

The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is pleased to announce it will now be accepting applications for the 2010 Helen Bassett Commemorative Student Award. Prized at $1,000 the award will be granted to four young Aboriginal women in Canada who are pursuing their post secondary studies.

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Health and science camp offers a hands-on experience

Camp students took part in seven interactive sessions offered by the Pre-Health Professions Club at the Four Directions Community Health Centre.

The club partners with post-secondary institutions, school divisions, First Nations and Metis communities, health regions and practising health-care professionals to provide learning opportunities beyond the classroom.

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Government of Canada partners to provide Northern youth science, engineering and technology skills

Iqaluit, (Nunavut), July 14, 2010 – Youth across the North’s three territories will benefit from science, engineering, and technology skills workshops this summer thanks to an investment from the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency. The camps will be delivered by Actua, an organization which provides kids programs designed to inspire young people to pursue careers in the sciences.

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Working for a Healthier North: First Northern Medical Program Grads Become “Real” Doctors

“I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I was six. This is a dream come true for me.” Those were the words used by Jennifer Parker upon opening her own family practice in Fort St John. This is Dr. Parker’s first full week as a practicing physician and she is joined by 12 others who were in the first graduating class of the Northern Medical Program (NMP) and recently completed residencies in family practice. They are the first to fulfill the promise of the NMP: to increase the number of doctors in the North by training them here.
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Native youth receive hands-on practice

Health care: Learning to deliver babies with the use of a robot is part of a pilot project designed as an introduction to medicine

Eight teenage girls helped deliver eight babies — actually one robot baby from one robot mom eight times — as part of a pilot project that tries to bring First Nations and rural students into medicine.

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U of A group targets more northern students with culturally-driven message

Members of the Aboriginal Health Group at the University of Alberta are hoping that $137,740 in funding from Health Canada will allow them to reach more elementary and junior high aged students in northern Alberta this fall and convince them to stay away from tobacco.

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Aboriginal university graduates honored

Within the extravagant and exciting atmosphere of the Whitecap Dakota Dunes Casino, Aboriginal graduates were honored at a banquet on June 5, after finishing a variety of post-secondary programs at the University of Saskatchewan.
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