Presentation delivered to the e-Health 2012: Innovations in Health e-Care conference in Vancouver, BC.

2. Ktunaxa Community Learning
Centres
 2006 to 2009, funded by CIHR
 How can technology be used to promote health
education in rural First Nations communities?

3. KCLC Locations
 Aq’am,
 Akisq’nuk
 Yaqan Nu?kiy

4. What does a KCLC look like?
 A physical space with computers
 A community-developed website
 Research and technical leads to…
 engage community members
 identify health education priorities
 find health resources
 develop CLC content
 provide technical support during CLC use

5. KCLC Resources to CLC Tools
 Large amount of potential resources generated from
KCLC initiative
 What resources are most useful to other community
learning centre initiatives?
 How can these resources be developed into tools?
 How should we prioritize tool development?
KCLC Resources

6. The possible tools
 Funding
 Research
 Training & Capacity Building
 Promotions
 Technology support
 Web-site
 Partnerships
 Health education resources
 Workshops
 Web information
 How to find reliable health information on the internet

8. CLC Toolkit Research
 8 Semi-structured telephone and face-to-face
interviews
 Developed and conducted by researchers located in
the Ktunaxa Nation and at the eHealth Strategy Office
in Vancouver
 Participants:
 KCLC developers
 other learning centres in BC
 Friendship centres
 One out-of-province community learning initiative

9. CLC Toolkit Research Results –
Top Tools
 What do CLCs want in a Toolkit?
Must Haves
• Grant writing
guides, compilation of funding
resources, how to seek
partnership opportunities
• Research training and tools
Next up…
• Technical support guides
• Communication strategies

10. Results- advice
 Funding and sustainability is enhanced by
partnerships and resource awareness
 Each community is unique
 Researching community needs is a crucial step for each
CLC to deliver specific and useable resources
 Toolkit must be flexible to adapt to funding received
and individual community needs

11. Next Step
 Dissemination and continued development of tools
 Piloting toolkit as a resource to accompany the
interCultural Online health Network (iCON)
 Work with different communities to assess needs and develop
applicable resources
 Broaden toolkit and further develop tools starting with those
highlighted in research interviews
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12. Special Thanks to
 Ktunaxa Nation
 Canadian Institutes for Health Research
 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
 Mary Jimmy, Researcher, Aksiq’nuk First Nation
 Dr. Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, Principal Investigator
 Elizabeth Stacy, Research Coordinator
 eHealth Strategy Office, UBC