Currently at Tungasuvvingat Inuit there are two main health promotion programs that relate to childhood obesity. The first is the Inuit Family Resource Centre. We've been serving Inuit children and their families for over eight years now. The program focuses on families with children from zero to thirteen years of age. The goal is to promote healthy outcomes through four main, core standard areas. We have child development and nutrition, cultural development and retention, parenting and caregiving skills, and community development and healing.
Our core programs at the moment are the Canada prenatal nutrition program, CPNP, for pregnant moms and infants up to one year, and the community action program for children, CAPC, for children zero to six years and their families. We also have some targeted age-specific programs right now for children from six to thirteen years old.
We offer a small number of primary health care services. These include blood pressure and blood sugar health checks, individual health consultations, assessments, and some complementary medicine.
Our publications include articles in the Canadian Journal of Public Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research knowledge translation casebook. These might be of interest to you as they speak directly to the most effective ways of gathering information from the communities to determine the best method of health promotion--what the best interventions would be for this population and for our community.
We've presented our findings from our research project across Canada, the United States, Australia, and Russia in the last three years.
The second program is the urban Inuit diabetes prevention and awareness initiative, which Christine runs. It is a national program designed to network the other centres, the other pockets of urban Inuit across Canada. There's a lot of work that's been done. It's been tagged as a priority since 2001. The main objectives of the initiative are to raise awareness of diabetes among urban Inuit, its risk factors, and the value of healthy lifestyle choices and practices. It promotes indigenous ownership of diabetes primary prevention and health promotion, it promotes innovative approaches to diabetes prevention and health promotion, it ensures equitable delivery across the country, it provides culturally appropriate material to targeted urban Inuit, it promotes healthy and traditional foods, it ensures that Inuit culture and values are reflected in the development and delivery of the program, it promotes a holistic approach to healthy living, and it ensures the active participation of urban Inuit in diabetes prevention and health promotion across the country.
Healthy and active living, of course, are paramount to the well-being of urban Inuit. With continued support, we hope to continue to empower this population across Canada to take ownership and promote healthy lifestyles within urban Inuit culture.