A/IYMP

Question 1

_____ are important settings for diabetes prevention programs for Indigenous children.

Answer 1

Schools

Question 2

Why are Indigenous children more prone to type 2 diabetes?

Answer 2

• due to lasting effects of colonisation

- Indigenous youth are affected by generations from the past

Question 3

Working upstream means in order to build healthy public policy:

Answer 3

• create supportive environments
• reorient health services
• develop personal skills
• strengthen community action
• enable, mediate, advocate

Question 4

Why peer mentorship?

Answer 4

• positive effects to mentor
• sense of belonging, identity
• can see themselves in the kids
• effects more prominent in Indigenous youth

Question 5

Strengths-based approach:

Answer 5

• requires patience
• lots of contamination
• where does the community have strengths?
• suspend bias

Question 6

Socioecological framework is used to…

Answer 6

• plan programs
• ensure programs are decolonizing
• consider social determinants of health

Question 7

AIYMP key concepts:

Answer 7

• social determinants of health
• decolonizing
• peer run
• restoring culture
• replacing western interpretation

Question 8

AIYMP originally started as…

Answer 8

• Rec and Read
• started in 2004
• Indigenous voice underrepresented
• adapted in 2010 for development in north = IYMP

Question 9

IYMP is now in ___ communities across Canada.

Answer 9

13

Question 10

Circle of courage 4 aspects:

Answer 10

• generosity
• independence
• mastery
• belonging

Question 11

AYMP is ___ mins ____/week, after school, peer led, health promotion program. Multi-age mentoring of children aged ___ years by grades ____-____students.

Answer 11

• 90 mins
• once per week
• 10 years
• 7-10

Question 12

AYMP was designed to improve wholistic health in youth by providing programmatic components that are targeted at a child’s:

Answer 12

• social health
• physical health
• mental health
• spiritual health

Question 13

This initiative carried out successfully in ____ ____, an isolated FN reserve community in _____ ______.

Answer 13

• Garden Hill

- northern Manitoba

Question 14

AYMP weekly sessions included…

Answer 14

• healthy snack
• 45 min of PA
• educational game or activity

Question 15

After Garden Hill, it is stated that risk of metabolic syndrome was reduced by ___% among participants.

Answer 15

12

Question 16

Rippling:

Answer 16

• scale up (Western)
• relational model
• communities talk to other communities
• spreading through word of mouth

Question 17

Core value of AIYMP:

Answer 17

relationship driven

Question 18

Youth adult health leader hired by _____, taught by _____.

Answer 18

• community (gets funding)

- universities

Question 19

___ week max.

Answer 19

• 20

- given school schedules

Question 20

Relationship building:

Answer 20

• trust building
• sharing
• teaching from elder

Question 21

_____ ____ between young adult health leader and community.

Answer 21

debriefing circle

Question 22

Healthy snack linked to _____ _____.

Answer 22

traditional foods

Question 23

PA linked to _____ ______.

Answer 23

traditional games

Question 24

Life skills:

Answer 24

• leadership for mentors
• teamwork
• trust
• confidence
• communication
• patience
• support
• relationship skills