Youth

Do you know a child under 5 years old who is a member of Nishnawbe Aski Nation? NAN in partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is proud to offer free books delivered to your community. For more information or to register a child, contact: Jennifer Wrigley at jwrigley@nan.ca Download Poster

Looking to make a difference? Join the Oshkaatisak Youth Council today! Youth Council ApplicationDownload

NAN advocated for and developed Choose Life to ensure that no First Nation community would be denied programming funding that promotes the mental, emotional, and behavioral well-being of youth. Choose Life provides immediate funding relief for youth at risk of suicide by fast-tracking proposals for group child and youth mental health prevention programs/services. Guiding Principles…

Across Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) the ongoing shortage and inadequacy of housing is negatively impacting individual and community well-being. The ongoing First Nations housing crisis has developed out of decades of inappropriate intervention. In 2014, the 49 NAN Chiefs in Assembly declared a Collective Housing Emergency through Resolution 14/40. In 2017, the NAN Infrastructure Summit…

The Seven Youth Inquest (the Inquest) examined the circumstances of the deaths of seven First Nation youth from 2000 to 2011. All seven youth died while attending high school in Thunder Bay, far away from their families and home First Nation communities. NAN remembers Jethro Anderson (2000), Curran Strang (2005), Paul Panacheese (2006), Robyn Harper…

Amber’s Fire Safety Campaign was endorsed by Chiefs-in-Assembly in May 2016 to promote fire safety and awareness in all NAN First Nations. The campaign is named in memory Amber Strang, an infant just five months old, the youngest victim of the March 29, 2016 house fire in Pikangikum First Nation that claimed nine lives, including…