FNHA Traditional Wellness Strategic Framework
You are invited to participate in an upcoming UBC Learning Circle featuring Dr. Georgia Kyba, Naturopathic Physician Advisor for the First Nations Health Authority. Dr. Kyba will be sharing the FNHA’s Traditional Wellness Strategic Framework.
The purpose of this framework document is to outline key objectives and strategies for the promotion, incorporation and protection of traditional medicines and practices, and to suggest some key objectives and strategies for further advancing this work.
All are welcome to attend and participate in this FREE live videoconference and computer webinar session.
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Where: Participate live via videoconference OR computer webinar
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Session Objectives
- To highlight the key objectives and strategies outlined in the Traditional Wellness Strategic Framework
- To share best practices from participants’ communities on traditional healing
About the Presenter
Dr. Georgia Kyba graduated with a Naturopathic Doctorate degree from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, OR. She received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Victoria with majors in Psychology and Biology. She holds a BC license through the College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia, CNPBC, and is a member of the BC Naturopathic Association, BCNA. Dr Kyba works in Aboriginal health with First Nations Summit as part of their Health Professionals Advisory Roster and with Squamish First Nations as the Chronic Disease Self Management Coordinator. Dr. Kyba is Northern Tuchone from the Selkirk First Nation in the Yukon. She was born in Whitehorse, Yukon, and grew up in Vancouver, BC, with her parents, two brothers and sister. Her interest in alternative medicine was instilled in her from a very young age by the compassionate and humanitarian views of her family.
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