Aboriginal Health

Aboriginal Health

Programs & Services

Aboriginal Health Initiative Program (AHIP)

What is the Aboriginal Health Initiative Program?

The Aboriginal Health Initiative Program (AHIP) was launched in 2002 as a regional community based funding program to support and encourage Aboriginal communities to identify health promotion projects that are culturally meaningful to them. Successful projects include mechanisms to gather community input and ways to measure project outcomes. AHIP initiatives help achieve the goals outlined in the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Plan 2008-2011.

Funding Opportunity: AHIP funds for 2012-2013, $20,000 Health Promotion Grants:

Proposal Call Out: Tuesday October 25th, 2011
Proposals deadline: Monday December 12th, 2011.

First Nations communities, Métis and urban Aboriginal organizations and First Nations communities in the Vancouver Coastal Health region are invited to submit a proposal to AHIP funding as the first step in exploring the development and funding of community-based health promotion projects. Deadline is Monday, December 12th, 2011. View guidelines and application forms for details.

Upcoming Training Opportunities

Aboriginal Health Strategic Initiatives announces these exciting and free training events in the upcoming months:

  1. Cultural Canoe Journey – January 25, 2012
  2. Tsleil-Waututh Nation Cultural Awareness Day – January 30, 2012
  3. Aboriginal Community Kitchen Leadership Workshop – March 9, 2012
  4. 13th Annual Aboriginal Mental Health Conference – Aboriginal Elders: The Forgotten Ones – March 15th & 16th, 2012

At anytime VCH Employees can register for the Indigenous Cultural Competency Training (Core ICC Health) at the following link: www.culturalcompetency.ca/training. The course is free to all VCH employees and can be completed online in 8 hours over an 8 week period.

Health Promotion Projects

AHIP Supports Aboriginal communities to provide locally responsive health promotion projects in the following 5 broad streams:

AHIP Success Stories

Newly funded projects participate in the “Splash & Ripple” [pdf] training.  This will help applicants to develop an Outcome Measurement Framework and a Monitoring Plan to help guide each projects activities and outcomes.  The Splash and Ripple workshop training is held in January of each year. The Funding Cycle Diagram indicates other important dates for all AHIP projects. 

AHIP 2011-2012 Funded Programs

For More Information

Leah Karpan
AHIP Program Assistant
Aboriginal Health Initiative Program
Suite 550, 601 W. Broadway
Vancouver, BC V5Z 4C2
Tel: 604-875-5600 ext. 63295
Fax: 604-875-4846
Email: leah.karpan@vch.ca

 

Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project

Last year SMARTFund sponsored Vancouver Native Health Society’s “Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project” to have a DVD produced on the wonderful work that is being done to create positive change for program participants, this is the end product of that session. 

In February 2009 AHSI sponsored a Cultural Competency and Inclusion Forum to increase responsiveness of VCH staff to Aboriginal people’s health needs. Below is a link to the DVD which contains interviews of presenters and participants of the forum.

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Our Stories : Demonstrating Change through Storytelling

Details about the Our Stories Conference & Findings

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