The document summarizes brochures created by summer students working on the Moving Forward Looking Back initiatives at Maskwacis Cultural College. The initiatives focused on skill development, partnerships, youth voices, and project management. The students created seven brochures about the summer student program, a youth summit, book giveaways at various events, partnerships for book donations, and library services and strategic planning. The brochures provided details on the number of participants and books distributed through these community programs.

1. Telling our library services for indigenous communities development
story via Brochures
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Moving Forward Looking Back - Summer library initiatives
This summer we had a team of five summer students and they worked on the Moving
Forward Looking Back initiatives. With lots of conversations, dialogues, reflections the
students focused on four themes: Skill development via the summer experiential learning
program, Partnerships created via book giveaways, Youth Summit event which involved
hearing the voices of our youth, and let’s learn project management skills by viewing the
book giveaway timeline and history. Based on these four themes the following seven
brochures were created by our summer students.
Title, Year: Summer Student Brochure, 2019
Summary: The Samson Summer Student Program is an opportunity for students, who are
continuing to go back to school in the fall, a chance to work during the summer time. Students
have the opportunity to work with the business in their community, such as the Band Office,
Community Initiatives, Maskwacis Cultural College, the Howard Buffalo Memorial Center
(HBMC), the Friendship Center, Nipisikopahk Education Association, and many other business
offered within the Program. This program has given students an income to help with their
future for school and has given them an excellent amount of work experience that would look
amazing on a resume. Plus, acquire a reference letter. The summer students of MCC show what
they learned working for the program.
https://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/summer-students-2019
Title, Year: Youth Summit Brochure, 2019
Summary: Working team - Youth Summit Working Group - Darryl Montour (Student), Jerilee
Buffalo (Summer Student), Quincey Buffalo (Student), Violet Soosay (Culture and language) and
Manisha Khetarpal (Supervisor)
Story in Numbers:
• 6 presenters
• 62 participants
• 4 displays
• 1 ACE test
• 12 handouts
• 1 youth coordinator
• 4 summer youth skills program coordinators working with Ermineskin, Louis Bull,
Samson, and Montana

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https://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/youth-summit-2019-167492280
Title, Year: Awasisak Brochure, 2019
Summary: Maskwacis Cultural College gave away 2000 books at the Awasisak Conference in
2019 (see charts within brochure). Participants from the Treaty 6 area had taken some books.
These areas covered were: Samson, Ermineskin, Saddle Lake, Louis Bull, Alexis Nakota Sioux
Nation, Paul First Band, Thunderchild, Loon River, Montana, and Enoch.
https://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/awasisak-2019
Title, Year: Book Giveaway Brochure, 2018
Summary: 35,090 books were given away across 18 different activity categories such as:
• Powwows
• Celebrations
• Parades
• Job fairs
• Youth planning events
• Awasisak conference
• Treaty 6 education assistant conference, etc.
Books were given away across 35 activities.
https://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/book-giveaway-2018
Title, Year: Book Giveaway Partnerships Brochure, 2019
Summary: Maskwacis Cultural College had partnered with many districts and institutions when
giving and donating books such as:
 Battle River School Division
 St. Albert Further Education
 Solomon College
 St. Mary’s University
 And many other institutes like daycares, and woman shelters.
https://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/book-giveaway-2019-partnerships

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Title, Year: Book Giveaway Brochure, 2019
Summary: 24,801 books were given away across 16 different activity categories such as:
• Events
• Literacy
• Conferences
• Programs
• Meetings
• Schools
• And other organizations
https://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/book-giveaway-2019
Title, Year: Library Services for Strategic Planning Brochure, 2019
Summary: Maskwacis Cultural College's continuing education program offered 58 learning
opportunities, 296 instruction hours, and trained 1151 learners in 2018.
Next steps: Noncredit policy approved. Prepare process guidelines.
• MCC’s 7th annual ATCO BBQ story in numbers 5000 books distributed, 1200 people
participated, 775 school students, 15 partners, 8 vendors, 9 Cree language activities, 12 door
prizes given away, 46 volunteers; practicum students from ECD 100, CS1102, EDPSY 1500
earned experiential learning credits, 1200 people enjoyed the BBQ (includes take outs by head
starts), 28 classes attended; Schools from Maskwacis, Wetaskiwin, Ponoka participated; 11,625
minutes read recorded by participants, 193 hours of reading time recorded by participants, and
196 minutes read aloud to children by volunteer readers.
Next steps: Prepare a toolkit based on May 29, 2019 event. Present at ATALM in October 2019.
• MCC’s 7th annual book giveaway: 35,090 books given away across 35 occasions in 2018.
Next steps: Giveaway at the Awasisak conference on July 18 and Samson powwow. Replicate
MCC model in another community.
https://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/library-services-for-the-strategic-planning-2019