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Executive SummaryTripartite First Nations Health Plan (Plan) calls for “an association of health directorsand other health professionals to create and implement a comprehensive capacitydevelopment plan for the management and delivery of community-based services tosupport First Nations and their mandated health organizations in training, programdevelopment and knowledge transfer”The Plan’s Governance structure for First Nations health services will have 4 pillars:1. First Nations Health Council,2. Provincial Advisory Committee on First Nations Health,3. First Nations Health Governing Body and4. Association of Health Directors.First Nations Health Directors are working to develop a common voice and at theHealth Directors Forum 2007 and Interior Health Conference 2007 health directorsprovided feedback. This assisted in the framework for the 2008 Health DirectorsForum (September 30, and October 1, 2008) where the Health Directors generallyagreed for the need for a Health Directors Association and started the work on the visionfor the governing structure, mandate, principles, roles of the Association’s Boardand Membership.