Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

The objective of this proposal is to attend the International Union of Health Promotion and Education held in New Zealand in April 2019. The following abstract has been accepted for presentation: A video that shows different examples of youth engagement in the Indigenous community of Kahnawà:ke, Quebec, Canada through digital storytelling. The video will begin with placing Kahnawà:ke within the context of Indigenous people in Canada, followed by a visual map of youth engagement initiatives in Kahnawà:ke. This visual will guide the video into different sections; including a verbal overview of the overall project and portray of existing community projects that engage youth in a unique way. The video will convey what youth need to achieve wellness from their own perspective. The video will show how youth understand engagement and how it makes them feel to be engaged in community issues. It will also show how engagement is viewed through Kanien'keháka culture and how this view is sustainable to wellbeing from adolescence until old age. Perspectives of adults who are involved with youth-led projects will express how they understand these projects benefit the well-being of youth.