Youth
Investing in our youth is investing in the future. As a part of our community-based approach, AICBR engaged youth to be involved with different aspects of research done in their community. By being directly involved with the research process, the youth learn new skills and work with their community, thus having opportunities to speak with and learn from Elders, other key community members and topic experts and to share their own perspectives and experiences.
It is the youth and future generations who will be facing the greatest impacts from global issues, such as climate change, in the coming years and they will be responsible for adapting to these complex changes. It is therefore essential to focus attention on working with and involving youth in all areas of research as well as to educate and strengthen youth leadership capacity so that they are well prepared to face these issues alongside their communities.
Kluane First Nation youth, along with Norma Kassi, lead Community-Based Researcher at AICBR deliver key-informant interview as part of the Nourishing Our Future Project.
Youth, Elders and other delegates at the YIC4 - Yukon Indigenous Community Climate Change Champion training in November 2018.
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation youth participate in a health and diabetes education workshop in Old Crow.
Selkirk First Nation youth learn how to set a net and catch fish under the ice at Winter Fish Camp as part of the Keeping Our Traditions Project.
reports and videos made by and/or for Youth
(For full list of reports - go to Reports section)
Yukon Indigenous Community Climate Change Champions Training Project:
Community Assessment Reports - Reports from Youth-led Community Climate Change Assessment (click on images to link to reports)
[pdf] Exploring Climate Change in My Community: Assessing Opportunities for Action -Youth Climate Change Community Assessment Toolkit (2018)
[pdf] Download additional Toolkit Workbook sheets
[pdf] YIC4 - Yukon Indigenous Community Climate Change Champions Project - Newsletters (December 2018/February 2019
[pdf] Curriculum and Training Guide
[link] The partnerships, the productions, and the people behind the lens - Promoting youth wellness through community-based research and filmmaking. Innovations in Community Health and Wellness. Northern Public Affairs Magazine © 2017 Northern Public Affairs, 57 Balsam St, Ottawa ON K1R 6W8. Volume 5, Issue 2.
[pdf] Keeping Our Traditions at the Fish Camps: Our Ancestors' Gift to Our Youth - A Fish Camp Guidebook; Collaboration between Selkirk First Nation and AICBR 2015 - 2016
This story map is part of our Healthy Living in My Community Project, which aims to celebrate and promote healthy living in Yukon communities. The story map was created by a grade 12 youth about her experience with the Yukon Youth Runners program in Whitehorse.
The Vuntut Gwitchin Climate Change and Health Research in Northern Yukon project was a three phase food security and climate change initiative that began in Old Crow Yukon in 2008.
A film highlighting the "Our Changing Homelands" conference in Old Crow, Yukon, which focused teaching youth about climate change and its affect on their health.