A/IYMP Flashcards
_____ are important settings for diabetes prevention programs for Indigenous children.
Schools
Why are Indigenous children more prone to type 2 diabetes?
- due to lasting effects of colonisation
- Indigenous youth are affected by generations from the past
Working upstream means in order to build healthy public policy:
- create supportive environments
- reorient health services
- develop personal skills
- strengthen community action
- enable, mediate, advocate
Why peer mentorship?
- positive effects to mentor
- sense of belonging, identity
- can see themselves in the kids
- effects more prominent in Indigenous youth
Strengths-based approach:
- requires patience
- lots of contamination
- where does the community have strengths?
- suspend bias
Socioecological framework is used to…
- plan programs
- ensure programs are decolonizing
- consider social determinants of health
AIYMP key concepts:
- social determinants of health
- decolonizing
- peer run
- restoring culture
- replacing western interpretation
AIYMP originally started as…
- Rec and Read
- started in 2004
- Indigenous voice underrepresented
- adapted in 2010 for development in north = IYMP
IYMP is now in ___ communities across Canada.
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Circle of courage 4 aspects:
- generosity
- independence
- mastery
- belonging
AYMP is ___ mins ____/week, after school, peer led, health promotion program. Multi-age mentoring of children aged ___ years by grades ____-____students.
- 90 mins
- once per week
- 10 years
- 7-10
AYMP was designed to improve wholistic health in youth by providing programmatic components that are targeted at a child’s:
- social health
- physical health
- mental health
- spiritual health
This initiative carried out successfully in ____ ____, an isolated FN reserve community in _____ ______.
- Garden Hill
- northern Manitoba
AYMP weekly sessions included…
- healthy snack
- 45 min of PA
- educational game or activity
After Garden Hill, it is stated that risk of metabolic syndrome was reduced by ___% among participants.
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