The essential conditions needed to implement the Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program: a focused ethnography.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (IYMP) is a 20-week communal, relationship-based afterschool healthy living program for Indigenous youth in Canada. IYMP embraces the Anishnaabe/Nehiyawak concepts of Mino-Bimaadiziwin/miyo-pimâtisiwin ("living in a good way") via its core components of physical activities/games, healthy snacks, and relationship-building. A strength of IYMP is that it values autonomy, adaptability, and the school community context. However, this presents challenges when evaluating its implementation, given that traditional implementation science methods tend to oversimplify the process. In response, essential conditions for the implementation of school-based healthy living programs across diverse contexts have been developed. The purpose of this re

SUBMITTER: Sobierajski F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808991 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature