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GATHERING THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM
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The Tripartite First Nations Health Plan contains
29 action items divided into four key areas of
action: Health Promotion, Disease and Injury
Prevention; Health Services; Performance Tracking;
and Governance, Relationships and Accountability.
Participants were invited to engage in a
dialogue through a collaborative World Café
discussion process that enabled them to provide
input and share their ideas on up to sixteen of the
specific action items within the First Nations Health
Plan Through these conversations, participants
discussed how to move forward in First Nations
health. What follows is some of the wisdom that
was harvested during those sessions.
OPEN SPACE
Open Space tables provided participants with
an opportunity to record any issue they wished to
raise. The Open Space flip charts also encouraged
people to identify issues they wanted to discuss
and the follow-up they felt could address that
issue. There were four Open Space opportunities
provided during the Gathering, one in each of the
world café breakout rooms. many of the comments
added emphasis to issues already raised in other
parts of the forum (e.g. dentists, on/off reserve,
isolated communities, traditional interventions).
You will find Open Space responses at the end of
each topic.
BREAKOUT GROUP TOPICS
Health Promotion, Disease and Injury Prevention
• Holistic Health Programs
• ActNow – General
• ActNow - Physical Activity
• ActNow – Nutrition
• Injury Prevention
• Traditional medicine
• Food Security
• Open Space
Health Services
• Aboriginal Health Human Resources
• E-Health
• mental Health
• Access for People with Disabilities
• Universal ECD supports
• Dental
• Open Space
Performance Tracking
• Research Infrastructure
• Indicators
• Regional Health Survey
• Community Health Plans
• Open Space
Governance, Relationships and Accountability
(This topic was the subject of a separate breakout
session.)
In each of the rooms the Room Host provided
an overall summary of the key messages emerging
from the individual topic discussions. Table Hosts
provided summary notes for the discussions at
each table.
COMMON THEMES
In the conversations it is immediately apparent
that the action items in the health plan are interrelated.
Themes that emerged throughout the
Forum included:
• more must be done to ensure the long
term sustainability of this effort and various
strategies, initiatives and programs.
• There is a need and desire for significant
enhancements to resources in order to expand
the reach of existing programs, including
funding and coordinated/holistic approaches.
• Develop opportunities and materials to support
training and capacity, particularly in response
to needs at the community/front line.
• Leadership needs to continually demonstrate
its commitment and priorities in this area,
including serving as health role models.
• The approach to implementing the TFNHP and
responses to various health needs must be of
practical use at the community level/front line.
• Increase efforts and supports for building cross
cultural understanding between First Nations
and their non-Aboriginal counterparts and
colleagues.
• Provide adequate support to the critically
important area of education and awareness
within First Nations, Aboriginal and non-
Aboriginal communities.
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