Going Local to Global through Technology-Needs Assessment and Development of a Virtual Arctic Youth Wellbeing Network

Allison Crawford (), Brittany Graham, Arnârak Bloch, Alexis Bornyk, Selma Ford, David Mastey, Melody Teddy and Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen
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Allison Crawford: Virtual Care and Psychiatry Outreach, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 60 White Squirrel Way, Office 233, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada
Brittany Graham: Public Health and Preventive Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8P 1H6, Canada
Arnârak Bloch: Innuttaasut Peqqissusiannik Ilisimatusarfik, Center for Public Health in Greenland, University of Southern Denmark, 1399 Copenhagen, Denmark
Alexis Bornyk: Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
Selma Ford: Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7, Canada
David Mastey: Virtual Care and Psychiatry Outreach, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 60 White Squirrel Way, Office 233, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada
Melody Teddy: Arctic Youth Network
Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen: Innuttaasut Peqqissusiannik Ilisimatusarfik, Center for Public Health in Greenland, University of Southern Denmark, 1399 Copenhagen, Denmark

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 20, 1-14

Abstract: Strengths-based approaches to suicide prevention and life promotion in circumpolar regions must engage youth participation and leadership given the impact of suicide on this demographic. We describe the development of a youth-engaged community of practice (CoP) across circumpolar regions, and adaptations to the ECHO model as a foundation for this virtual CoP. We describe youth priorities for learning in the area of mental health and wellbeing, identified through a learning needs assessment. A curriculum was developed to address key areas of interest, including: cultural approaches to mental wellbeing; language-based approaches to mental wellbeing; resilience; government and policy; and suicide prevention. We describe steps taken to adapt the ECHO model, and to introduce Indigenous pedagogical and knowledge sharing approaches into the CoP in order to meet youth learning interests. We conclude that this virtual CoP was a feasible way to create a learning community, and suggest that a priority future direction will be to evaluate the impacts of this virtual CoP on youth engagement, satisfaction and learning.

Keywords: circumpolar peoples; youth well-being; culture; mental health; indigenous health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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