First Nations Health & Wellness Summit: Sharing Wise, Community-Driven Practices for Wholistic Wellness

5/18/2023

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The First Nations Health & Wellness Summit, held from April 4-6, 2023, brought together a group of more than 400 participants at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver to share wise, community-driven practices for wholistic wellness. 

The Summit was an opportunity to come together to learn about innovative ways that communities and partners are addressing the critical health issues impacting First Nations people in BC. 

The primary areas of focus for the Summit included:

  • The toxic drug response
  • Primary care
  • Health emergency management
  • Mental health, wellness and healing 

The event featured:

  • A series of keynote speakers, workshops and interactive discussions that will highlight community-based wise and best practices – so that these learnings can be taken home, adapted and take root in your communities.
  • Hands-on training and education focused on building capacity around trauma, addictions, harm reduction, and wellness. 

Expressing gratitude: a heartfelt thank you to our supporters

The FNHA warmly thanks the delegates who attended the 2023 Summit. We are grateful for your participation and contributions! Over 430 participants showed their interest and commitment to sharing wise, community-driven practices for wholistic wellness. 

News articles

View news stories and images for the 2023 Summit here: 

Social media posts

For easy viewing, the posts below originate from Facebook; however, the FNHA is also active on other social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. The posts and images below are the same across all these platforms. 

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Presentations

If you are interested in some of the slide presentations from the Summit, you can view or download them below. 

Tuesday, April 4

MORNING KEYNOTE

We Are All on a Wellness Journey

BREAKOUTS: TOXIC DRUG RESPONSE

Dialogue 1: Mobile Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction and Outreach

Dialogue 2: Supporting Safe Social Detox in Community

Dialogue 3: Honouring Our Lost Loved Ones through Ceremony and Culture

Dialogue 4: Creating A Continuum Of Care for People Who Use Substances

  • Will be available soon 

Dialogue 5: Training: Indigenous Harm Reduction Practices

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE

Celebrating Success – First Nations Primary Care Initiatives

BREAKOUTS: PRIMARY CARE

Dialogue 1: Integrating Traditional Wellness into Primary Care

Dialogue 2: Applying FNHA's Territory Acknowledgment Information Booklet to the HSO Cultural Safety and Humility Standard

Dialogue 3: Embedding Support at the Edge: The Journey of Real-Time Virtual Support Peer Pathways

Dialogue 4: First Nation Attachment Gap Analysis for Primary Care Network Resourcing

Dialogue 5: The Pan-Provincial Electronic Medical Record

Wednesday, April 5

MORNING KEYNOTE

Drawing on traditional teachings, community strengths and partnerships to address the toxic drug public health emergency

BREAKOUTS: TOXIC DRUG RESPONSE

Dialogue 1: Supporting People With Lived and Living Experience

  • Will be available soon 

Dialogue 2: Medication Assisted Treatment - Opioid Agonist Therapy

Dialogue 3: Harm Reduction in Action

Dialogue 4: Next Steps: Recovery Management and the Importance of Post Treatment Supports

Dialogue 5: Training: How To Access Treatment Centres

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE

tiičʕaqƛ. Nurturing Pathways to Holistic Health and Community Wellbeing through Indigenous Food Sovereignty

BREAKOUTS: HEALTH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Dialogue 1: Climate Preparedness and Resilience

Dialogue 2: Strengthening Health Transportation Capacity

Dialogue 3: Food Security and Sovereignty

Dialogue 4: Understanding and Applying the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction – Making it Make Sense for Your Community

Dialogue 5: Training: Accessing Emergency Support Services During Evacuation

Thursday, April 6

MORNING KEYNOTE

Honouring Our Youth

  • No presentation available 

BREAKOUTS: MENTAL HEALTH, WELLNESS AND HEALING


Dialogue 1: Healing Houses and Modalities

Dialogue 2: Land-based Healing - Youth, Family, Communities

Dialogue 3: Pine Noodles and Spruce Tips: Revitalizing Our Traditional Medicine and Plant Knowledge

Dialogue 4: Ta Skwálwentn: Wholistic Healing App

Dialogue 5: Promising Practices in Housing

MORNINGKEYNOTE

Notorious Cree

  • No presentation available​
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