2011-2012 Annual Report - Sto:lo Nation

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Central Administrative Support ServicesSN provided centralized administration support to its programs and services, specifically:reception; mail sorting and delivery; meeting room bookings; vehicle bookings andmaintenance; requests for moves/additions for land line and cellular phones, maintenanceand requests for office equipment (fax and copier machines), key scan issuing andmaintenance, and other related services.Property and Capital ManagementStó:lô Nation property and capital management staff continued to improve the buildings andgrounds facilities at the Coqualeetza and St. Mary’s sites on a daily basis.The staff also assisted in the construction of the new longhouse and the newly renovatedlonghouse Extension program building and gift gallery. Staff members sat on the LonghouseRenovation Project committee which held numerous meetings to determine the timeline andbudget for: 1) the tear down of the old Long House and construction of a new one with anexpected completion date of June 2012; 2) the upkeep of the Ethnobotanical garden to createa walk way and install a pump for the pond; and 3) the remodeling of Building #19 LongHouse extension program that includes roof repair, expansion of the gift gallery, and anagreement with the School District to provide Field trips for over 1,500 Grade 4 students forthe new school year.Planning, Policy Development and Technical AssistancePlanning, Policies/Procedures Development, Research, Monitoring, Reporting andEvaluationUpdating of the Stó:lô Nation Operational Policy Manual (SNOPM) and the Finance andAdministration Operations Manual (FAOM) is continual. Other routine tasks include: thepreparation of the current fiscal year-end annual report; updates of the SN Positions Registryand the SN Population Table; development of project proposals; and program reviews.Technical Assistance and Support to SN Staff and SN Member FNsAssistance in the development, and/or review of technical papers, discussion papers andother planning, policy development and program-related information, including thedevelopment and/or revision of Terms of References (TORs) for various areas of concern is acontinuing task. Job descriptions were developed, reviewed, revised and registered. Severalprograms and project reviews were completed and new project proposals were developed.The following documents were also written and/or completed this fiscal year:1. SN Proposal to the First Nations Health Council (FNHC)-Development of a Participatory Community HealthPlanning Framework for Aboriginal Communities;2. SN-Conceptual Framework for a Participatory Community Planning Process submitted to the FNHC;3. TORs/Job Descriptions for the SN President and Executive Assistant positions;4. Sumas First Nation Health Transfer Agreement (HTA) Transition Plan;5. Comparative analysis-SN Bussing Program and Patient Travel Assistance;6. Program Review: Stó:lō Nation Community Health Services;Page 24 of 64
7. Stó:lō Nation Health Services Committee TOR;8. Skowkale BCCI Proposal;9. Various forms and templates;10. Stó:lō Nation Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Plan (Updated);11. Stó:lō Nation Business Resumption and Continuity Plan;12. Terms of Reference (TOR) of the SN Occupational Health and Safety Committee;13. Stó:lō Nation Health Evaluation Plan;14. Community Health Plan for the Stó:lō Nation Member First Nations (FY 2011-2021);15. Stó:lō Nation Community Economic Development (CEDP) Proposal; and16. Stó:lō Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training (SASET) Applications for the Job Development Program(JDP) and the Student Career Placement (SCP)The staff also assisted in the development of the questionnaire for the recently-completed SNHealth Services Evaluation and in the development of Scope of Work for proposals and in thereview of proposals for various SN-contracted studies and researches including participationin the BC Housing Operational Audit of the Stó:lô Elders Lodge (SEL).Information Technology (IT)IT technical assistance and support to the SN employeesis a continuing task. The Stó:lô Research and ResourceManagement Centre (SRRMC) set up a new Internetbased system to share land use information withinterested communities. The primary goals are thecreation of an integrated system containing the culturaluse database, the referral database and the spatial geo database. The Stó:lô Connect webportal was developed for the delivery of this information for use by all interested communitiesdealing with referrals. The Information Technology department coordinated the setup of thevirtualized server platform to host the system.The Stó:lô Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training (SASET) opened a new office in Surreyat the Aboriginal Training and Employment Centre (ATEC). The IT employees helped fourother employees to connect to Stó:lô Nation’s recently upgraded remote desktop system.For many years, the IT staffhave been chipping away atthe redundant information inSN database systems. To thatend, the Unification databasedraws on the main IT databasefor user authentication. Thisyear, the integration of thephone system’s user databasewith the IT department wasstarted to further reduce errors and duplication. Eventually the SN staff website will includean easy to use phone directory to replace the current one which must be manually updated.In January, SN was challenged with two consecutive outages resulting from the fires at a BCHydro substation and a local sawmill. Next fiscal year, the plan is to implement backuppower generation which will allow SN to operate in emergencies like these.Page 25 of 64
Page 4 and 5: Message from the Executive Director
Page 6 and 7: Executive SummaryThe Stó:lō Natio
Page 8 and 9: Highlights ofAccomplishmentsCharts
Page 10 and 11: Lateral Violence WorkshopStó:lō N
Page 12 and 13: Community Development Program (CDD)
Page 14 and 15: Education ServicesA:lmelhawtxw Earl
Page 16 and 17: Mission Aboriginal Family PlaceThe
Page 18 and 19: FY 2011-2012 was a challenging year
Page 20 and 21: Presently there are 3 WOP projects
Page 22 and 23: Finance and Administration Services
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Page 28 and 29: Other highlights for the year’s a
Page 30 and 31: Essential Skills in the Workplace,
Page 32 and 33: Stó: lō Health Services Committee
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Page 37 and 38: immunization campaign against pertu
Page 39 and 40: WorkshopsA total of 222 people atte
Page 41 and 42: Training on AEPS, and regionalizati
Page 43 and 44: Addictions Prevention CounsellingAd
Page 45 and 46: communities. ASCIRT will work to pr
Page 47 and 48: This program is administered at the
Page 49 and 50: Home Care nursing services include
Page 51 and 52: There were several success stories
Page 53 and 54: Stó:lô Elders Lodge (SEL)The Elde
Page 55 and 56: Sto:lo Research and Resource Manage
Page 57 and 58: Images from the Field-Heritage Mana
Page 59 and 60: Library Technicians published an ar
Page 61 and 62: Classification LevelIn terms of the
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