Grant: Operating Grant: Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research- Dev Grants

In response to ongoing barriers to optimal health and wellness facing their community, as well as the appreciation of and respect for community and cultural strengths, the Teslin Tlingit First Nation in Yukon, Canada, is developing a land-based healing program. This program is being designed to support culturally grounded land-based healing and restoration for survivors of the Canadian Indian Residential School System and their families within 6 clans of the Teslin Tlingit peoples. In July, 2017 the TTC (Teslin Tlingit Council) contacted the University of British Columbia (UBC) Indigenous Research Support Initiative (IRSI) to begin discussion of a potential partnership for community-based participatory research. This development grant has been designed to support the importance of networking and relationship development for a full NEIHR application to CIHR in the future. The research partnership development has just begun during a first visit to Teslin by UBC in April, 2018. The development grant activities to be undertaken all contribute to: (1) developing and deepening the collaborative and community-driven partnership, (2) the proposal preparation and (3) engaging knowledge holders, Elders, leaders and community personnel support for the land-based healing research study.