Brighter Futures Coordinator

VACANT - on leave
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Phone: 306-835-2937
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Brighter Future Duties

The Brighter Futures program is a community-based health promotions and ill health prevention program for the Daystar, George Gordon, Kawacatoose and Muskowekwan First Nations. The program typically, promotes health and prevents ill health through learning-related activities that strive to increase awareness, change attitudes, knowledge and enhance skills.
Brighter Futures program is guided by the following principle;

• A holistic approach is essential to support First Nations and Inuit individuals, families and communities.
• A holistic approach is achieved when the five components if the program-mental health, child development, parenting, healthy babies and injury prevention are coordinated and linked with each other, as well as with other programs and services.
• Including community members in the design of a program increase the likelihood of meeting the community needs.

Duties

Cultural Activities

• Ensure activities are in line with the contribution agreement under the 5 components of the program – mental health, child development, parenting, healthy babies and injury prevention.
• Plan and coordinate and conduct activities.
• Maintain network of resources and contacts.
• Collaborate with and coordinate people resources.
• Participation on Health Committee.
• Participates in case conferences to plan and coordinate services for the community members.
• Collaborate with other staff – NNADAP, Mental Health Therapist, Elders and CHR’s etc. To add value to activities.
• Develop volunteers to assist with activities.

• Maintains a good knowledge of traditional and contemporary values and spirituality of the communities and adapt programming as needed.
• Establishes and maintains working relationships with the Elders and other resource people.
• Deliver culturally appropriate and holistic community based projects and programs to community members
• mental health 
• child development
• healthy babies
• injury prevention 
• parenting skills 
• Provide training opportunities to front line and community members.