Improvement Story session at the 2013 Saskatchewan Health Care Quality Summit. For more information about the summit, visit www.qualitysummit.ca. Follow @QualitySummit on Twitter. Youth Health Groups are youth groups that are formed in each of our communities to build on the strengths of the youth to deliver health messaging to their peers and other members of the community. Youth Health Groups aim to: Mobilize youth to take action on their own; Promote individual and family health; and Empower youth to make better self-care choices. Better Health Amanda LaBoucane and Liz Durocher, Keewatin Yatthe Regional Health Authority

1. Youth Health Groups
Amanda LaBoucane and Liz Durocher
This Session is sponsored by:

2. YOUTH HEALTH GROUPS
Department of Community Health Development
Keewatin Yatthé Regional Health Authority

3. Problem Statement
Across a vast land of beauty & potential…
Disheartening youth suicide & teen
pregnancy…
Alcohol & drug abuse
Struggle to obtain optimum health &
wellness

7. Regional Description

8. KY Population Health Status

9. Aboriginal Identity

10. High School Graduates

11. Diabetes Prevalence

12. Provincial Diabetes Rates

13. Age-Specific Birth Rates

14. Suicide

15. Community Outreach Education Workers
(COEW)
…the KEY to reaching our Communities

16. The Medicine Wheel

17. “Wholistic Health of Keewatin
Yatthé Health Region
Residents”

18. Youth Health Groups
Program Plan & Story

21. Reflection

22. YOUTH HEALTH GROUPS

23. Who?

24. What?

25. When?

26. Where?

27. Why?

28. How?

29. Our Story Continues…

30. Building on Our Strengths!

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Ile a la Crosse
October 2012 – February 2013
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32. Youth Health Groups
La Loche
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33. Peers Helping Peers!

34. Thank you!
 References:
Keewatin Yatthé Regional Health Authority Annual Report,
2011 – 2012
Population Health Unit Health Indicators Report 2011
 Music credits:
Drops of Brandy: An Anthology of Métis Music

45. Your Feedback
What did you like most about our story?
Are there any Health Promotion or Community Health
Initiatives that youth are involved with in your
community/facility/region?