Pan-Canadian Health Human Resource Strategy: 2004/2005 Annual Report
Aboriginal HHR Projects
Initiated in 2004/2005
Health Human Resources
Amount/ Duration
$70,000, 2004/05
Recipient
National Indian and Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization
(NIICHRO)
Objectives
Consult with stakeholders to identify and assess the best means to
develop competency-based occupational standards for Community
Health Representatives (CHR’s).
Develop a five-year action plan under the Health Human Resource Strategy.
Develop and initiate a communications strategy for a broad base of support
with the CHRs and Aboriginal community for occupation standards and
accreditation.
Formulate and implement a data collection strategy to gather, organize
and analyze the elements necessary for the development of occupation
standards.
Assess impact and use by CHRs of new technologies within the health field.
Identify means to formalize the CHR job title and develop a National
Occupation Code.
Activities
Compile and assess the various recommendations put forth from historical
documents for presentation and guidance from stakeholders.
Develop an organizational development plan covering 2005 to 2010.
Facilitate a meeting and teleconference with stakeholders.
Develop and initiate a print communication strategy to include posters,
pamphlets, newsletters and Web site updates, as well as other promotional
tools.
Undertake a telephone campaign to inform CHRs of the initiative, conduct
interviews from all regions to identify daily tasks, issues, concerns and
prepare a tabulation of the duties of a CHR from all regions to support
development of a core curriculum for CHR training, as well as the development
of a national occupational code.
Anticipated Results
A detailed activity report of the project containing a copy of the final report
outlining the five-year development plan, the outcome of the meeting with
stakeholders and the outcome of the telephone interviews for the development
of a core curriculum for CHR training.
Contact Information
National Indian and Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization
P.O. Box 1019
Kahnawake QC
J0L 1B0
Telephone: (450)-632-0892 Ext. 24
Blueprint for the Future (BFF)
Amount/ Duration
$50,000, 2004/05
Recipient
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF)
Background
The BFF is a series of one-day career fairs held in two different major
Canadian cities each year. These career fairs are focused on Aboriginal
youth (aged 13-18) in grades 10 to 12.
Each BFF attracts roughly 1,000 Aboriginal youth. To date, the program
has assisted approximately 25,000 youth who have attended career fairs
in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa,
Toronto and Halifax.
Objectives
Provide Aboriginal youth with a forum where they are exposed to a
variety of educational and employment-related information specific
to health.
Increase awareness of employment opportunities and associated training
requirements in the health sector of the Canadian workforce.
Activities
Plan, organize and deliver two career fairs, in Saskatoon, in November
2004 and Ottawa, in February 2005, including, but not limited to:
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Finding suitable speakers to deliver presentations to the youth.
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Organizing Aboriginal youth from across the host cities and
province to attend the career fairs.
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Coordinating the logistics for the career fairs.
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Developing and distributing information in order to promote the
career fairs.
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Coordinating the registration of speakers, booth participants and speakers.
Anticipated Results
Two career fairs held in November 2004 and February 2005.
Contact Information
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
Suite 33A, 70 Yorkville Avenue
Toronto, ON
M5R 1B9
Telephone: (800) 329-9780
Health in The Classroom
Amount/ Duration
$300,000, 2004/05
Recipient
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF)
Background
Industry in the Classroom is an initiative comprised of interactive educational
modules designed to encourage youth to stay in school and to educate
them in the wide variety of career opportunities. Health in the Classroom
is one module that highlights five health professions as well as showing
other health careers that make up the teamwork in health care.
Objective Develop the Health in the Classroom Module, which is comprised of
a video and an interactive curriculum.
Activities
Produce a video highlighting five health careers: physicians, nurses,
midwives, dieticians, and physiotherapists.
Consult with experts to develop the curriculum related to these professions.
Focus test the module.
Anticipated Results
A Health in the Classroom module that will be implemented in Aboriginal
community schools and urban schools with a high Aboriginal population.
Contact Information
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
70 Yorkville Avenue
Suite 33A
Toronto, ON
M5R 1B9
Telephone: (416) 926-0775
Inuit HHR-Specific Initiative
Amount/ Duration
$75,000, 2004/05
Recipient
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Objectives
Engage Inuit in providing information on Inuit needs in HHR.
Determine models of education that will provide relevant education
to Inuit and allow them to succeed.
Communicate with other Aboriginal organizations, Health Canada,
professional health organizations and educational institutions to ensure
a strong, multidisciplinary support system for health professionals of
all ancestry serving the Inuit.
Ensure the ongoing recruitment, training and support of health care
providers serving Inuit.
Activities
Gather information from key stakeholders as identified by the National
Inuit Committee on Health. Stakeholders will include the Land Claims
Organizations, Pauktuutit, National Inuit Youth Council (NIYC), educational
institutions and employers. Due to distance, the majority of discussions
will occur by telephone.
Update content on ITK Web site.
Determine, through stakeholder discussion, what educational models
Inuit support.
Examine, with stakeholders, problems and possible solutions in recruitment
and retention. Determine solutions that are supported by both service
providers and Inuit.
Perform ongoing communication and participation in meetings, working
groups and conferences relevant to Inuit-specific HHR strategies (e.g.
working with NAHO and Pauktuutit).
Determine, with stakeholders, educational models that are more effective
for Inuit.
Anticipated Results
Participation in national discussions on Aboriginal HHR priorities
A final report on the findings from stakeholder consultations.
Contact Information
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
170 Laurier W
Suite 510
Ottawa, ON
K1P 5V5
Telephone: (613) 238-8181
First Nations Health Human Resources
Amount/ Duration
$ 69,732, 2004/05
Recipient
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Objective
Initiate the development of a First Nations Health Human Resources
Strategy that would be based on Federal/Provincial/Territorial/First
Nations agreements and measurable targets to address issues of
access, training, recruitment, and retention in order to increase the
availability of culturally competent HHR for on- and off-reserve First
Nations.
Activities
Conduct a scan to inform the development of a strategy that includes a
document review and a comparative analysis of national and international
models in Aboriginal/indigenous HHR development.
Consult with First Nations health technicians at the regional and national
levels via the National First Nations Health Technicians Network (NFN
HTN) and the National Policy Summit, as well as First Nations health
professional organizations (e.g. Aboriginal Nurses Association of
Canada, National Indian Community Health Representatives
Organization) in order to:
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obtain information on existing documentation and best practices;
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propose a process for strategy development that would build on
existing regional strategies for institutional access to training,
professional licensing, and support of First Nations health professionals.
Complete a gap analysis based on the information collected.
Further elaborate a proposal for the development of a First Nations
Health Human Resources Strategy in alignment with the document
review, comparative analysis, and gap analysis, and develop a
process based on recommendations by national and regional
First Nations health technicians.
Validate the proposal with the NFNHTN and Chiefs Committee on Health.
Participate in discussion with FNIHB on Aboriginal HHR issues.
Anticipated Results
Final report including results of the gap analysis, consultations with
First Nations Health Technicians, and a proposal for the development
of a First Nations HHR Strategy.
Contact Information
Assembly of First Nations
1 Nicholas Street, Suite 900
Ottawa, ON
K1N 7B7
Telephone: (613) 241-6789
Vision 20/20
Amount/ Duration
$10,000, 2004/05
Recipient
Six Nations Grand River
Objectives
Introduce the long-term goal of graduating a larger number of
Aboriginal physicians over the next 15 years.
Encourage participants to make commitments to forward the agenda
of the 2020 Vision Strategy.
Agree on steps needed to implement the 2020 Vision Strategy.
Encourage partnership to advance First Nations health care needs.
Activities
Host of the 2020 Vision Symposium.
Anticipated Results
A detailed annual program activity report including a full and final agenda
of the 2020 Vision Symposium and a report outlining the objectives
achieved through the 2020 Vision Symposium.
Contact Information
Six Nations
1695 Chiefswood Road
P.O Box #5000
Ohsweken, ON
N0A 1M0
Telephone: (519)445-2201
Promotion of Health Sciences to Aboriginal Youth
Amount/ Duration
$3,000, 2004/05
Recipient
Canadian Aboriginal Science and Technology Society (CASTS)
Objective
To reach out to Aboriginal students and assist them in the pursuit of
Science and Technology, including Health Studies and Careers.
Activities
Provide information to Aboriginal students on Science and Technology
resources at the Canadian Aboriginal Festival.
Provide a copy of the outcomes report to Health Canada.
Anticipated Results A detailed activity report of the project including a copy of the outcomes
report.
Contact Information
Canadian Aboriginal Science and Technology Society
875 Bank Street, Suite 3
Ottawa, ON
K1S 3W4
Telephone: (613) 233-2701
Aboriginal Health Task Group Meeting to Develop
Recommendations for the Medical Schools Initiative
Amount/ Duration
$23,780, 2004/05
Recipient
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC)
Objectives
To form effective working relationships among Task Group members
and the Social Accountability Initiative Steering Committee and the
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada.
To share experience and expertise among faculty, student and community
representatives, and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members.
To finalize Terms of Reference and time line for the group’s work.
To discuss issues and concerns related to Aboriginal medical education;
health human resources, curriculum change and other relevant priorities
and issues.
To begin to formulate an action framework and specific recommendations
to the deans of medicine.
Activities
Coordinate travel, accommodations, booking of meeting room and
equipment rental.
Hold a pre-meeting teleconference.
Develop the agenda, facilitation plan and meeting materials.
Draft minutes and framework to participants for comments.
Finalize working framework.
Anticipated Results
A detailed activity report of the project containing the minutes of the meeting
and the working framework.
Contact Information
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
773 Echo Drive
Ottawa, ON
K1S 5P2
Telephone: (613) 730-0687
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