Gathering Wisdom IXMay 16, 2018
OKANAGAN NATION ALLIANCESyilx
• Create a culture of learning and build capacity
•Centre Syilx Culture
•Based on Community Voices
The ONA Chiefs Executive Council and Wellness Committee articulated a vision for Wellness services:
“Reclaiming and Restoring Syilx ways of being and knowing (worldview) through development of holistic Wellness programs and
services grounded in a Syilx framework”
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It has root ties to the Land
Syilx Wellness Framework
Supporting our Children, Family and
Community through our Syilx Ways
Our ways: grounded in captikwl
Community Driven Process: Gathering the Pieces:
•Community plans
•ONA Wellness Committee
•Elders, Youth & Children Projects
•Community based research
•Nationwide Forums
•Syilx Knowledge sessions
•Community Visits – 1 to 1
•Questionnaires/Surveys
Nation Based Plans –Finding Common Ground and Clarifying
Nation based strategies developed and centered within captikwl, language and community voices,
• Quality Assurance Model • Health Plan• Mental Wellness Plan• Child & Family Plan• Traditional Wellness Strategy• Early Years Strategy
Developing : Elder Care & Cancer Care Strategies
Services Practice Jurisdiction
Health
Child & Family
Mental Wellness
Early Years
Syilx Teachings
Community Engagement
Practice Model Developments
Quality Assurance
Nation to Nation principle
Advocacy
Lobbying
Syilx Rights -Children and
Families
Syilx Laws
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Understanding the layers in the words and the roles and responsibilities attached to those:
FamilyFamily decision making
Kinship rolesSyilx child development chart
CommunityNation
“Use words which have land and community knowledge thousands of years old”
Dr. Jeannette Armstrong
“The language belongs to each one of us: Give it life.”
Elders Wisdom
That old man every evening he would sing us a song and he sat us on his lap and he always
touched our hair. He would make sounds. We don’t do that any more. That is grandparents teaching. Just like saying that you are close to me you are a part of me your heart is my heart and you are me. I was young when I
went there and he went qws qws qws. It was tenderness and love.
Twi Joey Pierre, Penticton Indian Band elder
Bringing the Children’s Voice
“I feel loved when my mom holds my hand”Teigan Peterson, Gr 1
Utilizing Captikwl
Chipmunk and Owl Woman
“The chipmunk granddaughter was vulnerable when she was off on her own.
Just as our kids and youth are vulnerable.”
“Things happen and they change you.”
“Grandmothers can put the heart back in.”
Lazy Boy and Grizzly Bear
“Sometimes it may not be your family that teaches you.”
“The word ‘abandoned’ might not be the right word. There is a time in a young person’s life when the child has to be able to change to become a man. Either he
can live and become a man or he will remain how he is.
“The over-all concept is like today when families give up on addicted members or those with negative behaviors. They go to treatment or leave the community
to find help, get healing, and find their gifts. Then they can come back home and share their gifts with their own people.”
Okanagan Nation Response Team Health AdvocateR’Native Voice / Kwu Xast Elders Wellness CoordinatorYouth Wellness Coordination Syilx Early YearsFamily Decision Making You, Empowered Strong
Stories Forums, Elder & Youth Gatherings, Elders Retreats, Youth Leadership, Unity Run, Early Years Gathering
Implementing
“Senklip, coming back. He will ask , did you teach your kids how to look after the land?”
- Syilx Nation Member
i? citxwtet: Our House
For the People: Spirit of the Syilx Unity Run
May 10-13, 2018
Syilx People celebrated our 10th
Year of hosting the Unity Run
For More Information
Jennifer LewisWellness Manager
[email protected]: 250-826-7844
Pauline TerbasketExecutive [email protected]
Toll Free 1.866.662.9609 www.syilx.org
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