2011-2012 Annual Report - Sto:lo Nation

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Essential Skills in the Workplace, etc. to develop their professional “tool kit” to assist clients inskills development. SASET set a standard for those who work with community members toprovide quality one-on-one employment counseling.DaycareSASET administers the grandfathered funding from the federal government to the Stó:lô,Chehalis and Seabird Island DayCares. SASET also receives a small budget from ServiceCanada for Early Childhood Development to assist daycare workers to attend annualprovincial day care conferences and equipment purchases for daycares in the communities.BladeRunners ProgramSASET administers the BladeRunners program, a provincial government agreement thattrains at-risk youth aged 15-30 (predominantly 17-24) for jobs in BC. BladeRunners hasenjoyed a high success rate and is one component of the Province’s strategy to addresslabour shortages and increase the active participation of Aboriginal people in B.C.’seconomy. BladeRunners operates with funding from the Province, the Canadian federalgovernment, community-based Delivery Agents and industry. The objective of BladeRunnersis to train/place at-risk youth in permanent employment in construction/other industries, andto provide additional support to enhance their career potential. Services for BladeRunners areprovided through the Foundation Program, and the Enhancement Program.Foundation Program – 3 weeksThe Foundation Program provides unemployed, at-risk-youthwith ongoing support, job readiness skills, and work-placetraining so they can overcome their barriers to employment andachieve long-term attachment to the workforce. The Programincludes: Screening process that helps ensure participants meetemployer expectations and identifies their EmploymentInsurance/Non-Employment Insurance status; Lifeskills; Healthand Safety certificate training; employability skills; and Jobcoaching (including out of office hours) that supports participanttransition through the pre- employment phase and especiallythrough their first 3 months of employment, providing advice andencouragement to manage their adjustment into long termemployment and those barriers which previously held them back.FY 2011–2012 EnhancementTraining for 132 youth consisted ofthe following:Business Administration – 6Firefighters – 18Construction – 12Building Service Worker – 24Retail – 24Warehouse – 12Road Builders – 24Family Child Care - 12Enhancement Program – length varies according to sectorThe Enhancement Program provides potential, current or established Foundation Programparticipants with tailored enhanced support, job readiness skills, and/or work place training.Two intakes were specifically targeting SA clients. SASET received an additional $44,000 toassist 24 youth on Assistance. The intakes were done through Building Service Worker –12and Retail training –12. For more information please visit www.saset.ca.Page 28 of 64
Stó:lō Nation Health Services (SNHS)Health ManagementFirst Nation and Inuit Health Branch - Health Transfer Agreement (HTA)The Health Transfer Agreement expired on March 31, 2011. Stó:lō Nation completed thecomprehensive Community Health Plan for 11 First Nations as a requirement to sign a newfunding arrangement with Health Canada. The Health Plan took a number of months todevelop and be approved by Health Canada.The 10- year HealthFunding Arrangement inthe amount of$20,759,586.00 withHealth Canada wassigned on July 25, 2011.With this new fundingarrangement, a newformat on reporting wasintroduced. SNHS nowhas to complete theCommunity BasedReporting Tool (CBRT)for all transferable andsome target (now calledset) programs. SNHS hasto do one for the 11communities to be submitted in July of each year. The NIHB-Medical Transportation, CrisisMental health and COHI (Children Oral Health Initiative) have different and separate reportingformat. Health Canada presented the Community Based Reporting Tool to the SNHS staffand community members that form the Stó:lō Nation Health Services Committee (SNHS).Stó:lō Nation Health Services signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with HealthCanada for the following services: Environmental Health Officer; Senior Nursing Consultant;Dental Therapist, and Children’s Oral Health Initiatives. SNHS signed a Volunteer AdvisoryAgreement with the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO), a non-profitorganization, to start developing sections of a Policy/Procedure Manual for SNHS. A workplan for this project was established and will take approximately three years to complete.SNHS contracted Lewis Point to develop a new health database. This project will establish adata base to input and report data to the funders and be utilized for evaluating health servicesdelivery. The contract is underway and the expected completion date is April 2013. Regularprogress meetings are held every two weeks to track the progress of this project.A two day seminar was held for the SNHS staff to provide an overview of the new “2011-2021SN Community Health Plan.”Page 29 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
Page 24 and 25: Personnel ServicesChart 4- Sto:lo N
Page 26 and 27: Central Administrative Support Serv
Page 28 and 29: Other highlights for the year’s a
Page 32 and 33: Stó: lō Health Services Committee
Page 34 and 35: have regional meetings with their m
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
Page 63 and 64: 20074 2Chart 32-Annual Breakdown by
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