Health and Wellness Planning for First Nations
Workshop Opportunities
FNHMA has created workshops that emphasizes the key activities outlined in the guide. The Health and Wellness Planning workshops can be customized to meet the specific needs and circumstances of participants, including community health workers, Tribal organizations, and federal and provincial health and policy workers. FNHMA is able to customize the content and format of the workshop training to provide the most impactful experience for every participant. Contact info@fnhma.ca to learn how FNHMA can support your health organization, community, or team members.
Health and Wellness Planning Workshop
This workshop will introduce participants to the Seven D's and provide hands-on knowledge in using the Developing Health and Wellness Plans: A Guide for First Nations (the Guide). Participants will leave with useful tips and tools to support their health and wellness plans and a copy of The Guide and the supporting Toolbox.
What are the Seven D's and what will the workshop cover? The purpose of using the Seven D’s approach is to provide a structure that supports communities but doesn’t prescribe exactly what to do or how to do it, the Seven D's will cover the following: Discuss the process. This stage looks at the readiness elements of health planning, including preparing leadership, creating a planning group, and plenty of communication. Design the work plan. This stage helps you lay out your process to create your Health and Wellness Plan; essentially your plan to create a Plan. Discover the current situation. This stage guides you through an assessment of your community – what your community has (i.e., assets) and what it needs related to health and wellness. Define the priorities. This stage builds on your Community Assessment and helps you identify priorities based on criteria. Develop the draft. This stage is where you create your draft Health and Wellness Plan for the next five to ten years. Deliver the plan. This stage is where you take the completed draft Health and Wellness Plan and move it forward, for review and approval, so it is ready for implementation. Do the work. This stage is where you create the Annual Plan that will bring your Strategic Plan to life!
Health and Wellness Planning: CORE Essentials Workshop
Designed for communities in the early stages of their planning journey, this workshop will explore each planning component and focus on key activities and requirements, offering practical insights and exercises allowing participants to learn the planning process.
In health and wellness planning, CORE stands for: Collect data and engage stakeholders, Organize information and prioritize, Respond with programs and services, Evaluate results and plan for the future. The teachings will emphasize values-based planning, reflecting the importance of how the planning process aligns with community values.
The FNHMA has released four publications and designed two supporting workshops that support First Nations communities and organizations with health and wellness planning.
The first is Health and Wellness Planning: A Guide for First Nations. The Health and Wellness Planning Guide provides an easy-to-follow health and wellness planning approach supporting a community-guided process. The Guide represents and honours the voices of hundreds of First Nations Health Managers who have contributed to the content. The Health and Wellness Planning: A Guide for First Nations is available for purchase or as a free digital download.
The Health and Wellness Planning Toolbox pulls the tools mentioned in the Guide. This toolbox can support you as you develop your health and wellness plan for the first time or the tenth time, whether you are a single small community or a large multi-community group, and regardless of the type of funding agreement you are in, we believe there will be tools that will help every community in some way. The Health and Wellness Planning Toolbox can be purchased through our publications page.
Health and Wellness Planning: CORE Essentials distills the concepts of creating a complete Health and Wellness Plan to the “core essentials.” This pared-down version supports communities in the earlier stages of the planning journey. Centered on feedback as we hosted workshops in Health and Wellness Planning, many communities just starting requested a document that would help them by offering just the key activities and requirements, “Just the basics.” Health and Wellness Planning: CORE Essentials is available to purchase and offered as a free digital download. Visit our publications page for details.
FOCUS on Wellness: A Strength-Based Indicator Tool for First Nations is a tool that was developed for First Nations by First Nations. It is a useful and practical tool, facilitating more meaningful and culturally relevant methods in program planning and evaluation. Using a community-led approach, it describes what indicators are, explains why they are important, outlines key qualities of effective indicators, provides suggestions on how to choose them, and offers hundreds of samples. It also introduces a process, using the acronym FOCUS to guide you through the stages. The FOCUS approach outlines the key stages and main activities within each.
Knowledge Sharing
The videos below complement the Health and Wellness Planning Guide and provide context on how to best utilize the information provided in the guide.
