txt̓mist | be careful / take care of oneself
The Youth Digital Safety Lunch & Learn is a series of workshops designed for individuals working with youth, to promote healthy online practices.
This series will adopt a train-the-trainer model with resources tailored for specific groups. These materials will be shared with the Syilx Nation bands and service providers who support Syilx youth. It will provide tools to help those who need to support children and youth in navigating the digital world, incorporating Indigenous values of respect, reciprocity, and responsibility.
Open to individuals working with Syilx Okanagan youth.
YES Digital Safety for Youth Save The Dates
Session 1 YES Digital Safety for Youth
YES Digital Safety for Youth – Lunch and Learn
2026-03-11 YES Digital Safety for Youth – Lunch and Learn
The YES Program is dedicated to assisting the Syilx Nation in addressing family violence and sexual harm. As part of the Specialized Training within the YES Program, we offer a comprehensive full-day training session aimed at enhancing the capacity to effectively respond to various forms of violence.
Open to Nation-based workers and community members who respond to violence or sexual harm.
YES Frontline Wellness 2026 Poster
Gathering and Supporting Frontline Workers
The YES Program offers specialized training and self-care opportunities for frontline workers of the Syilx Nation, addressing their community responsibilities in crisis response. It aims to combat vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue by providing tools for self-care and a relaxing environment for respite.
This event will feature training aimed at enhancing capacity, team-building activities, cultural healing, and an emphasis on personal wellness in a field of providing support to Syilx Nation members in crisis.
Open to Frontline Health & Wellness Staff in Syilx Nation Communities | Space are limited
nłk̓ʷsalqʷm: ackʷum iʔ sck̓łpaʔx̌tət
The Syilx Data Plan has been guided by the collective knowledge and wisdom of our ancestors, elders, knowledge keepers, and Nation members of today to plan and prepare for the people-to-be.
Good quality wellness data helps with community planning and monitoring of programs. ONA data team would like to invite you learn about the Nation data plan that is built on sqlxʷɬcaẃtət (our ways).
Sessions will be held in each community – more info coming soon!
The Okanagan Nation Alliance in collaboration with many project partners have been successfully restoring spawning and rearing habitat for salmon in the Okanagan Basin for over 20 years. Traditional Ecological Knowledge, best management practices, measured stream geometry and natural habitat features have guided these restoration works. This workshop will teach the math behind the stream analysis and hydraulics that directed the restoration designs and describe the planning, construction, monitoring methods and results.
Workshop outline:
- Teach the calculations behind the stream analysis, river hydraulics and pool-riffle design
- Field visits to several habitat restoration projects
- Show the process of implementing a river restoration project from beginning-to-end (planning, designs, construction, and adaptive management)
- Explain the projects monitoring methods and results
- Discussion and poster sessions: hydraulic modelling, fish habitat diversity, spawning beds, riffles, fish passage at barriers, floodplain reconnection, wetland restoration
Course targeted to but not limited to:
- Those designing or reviewing river instream works, particularly for salmon habitat
- Environmental scientists and project managers (Biologists, Engineers, Geomorphologists, Hydrologists and Fisheries Technicians)
- Community members and general public
Course details:
April 2026_River Restoration Workshop
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The Early Years Gathering provides opportunity for Aboriginal Early Childhood professionals to engage in a manner that can contribute to capacity building and resource development through a process that draws on the wisdom and experience of the attending staff, managers and parents. This annual two-day training fulfills the Professional Development requirements of frontline Early Childhood Development staff in a manner that is grounded in Syilx values and practices.
A Time of Sharing and Caring.
The Early Years Program provides support for Early Years centres, daycares, workers, and children and families through cultural resources, trainings, programs and workshops.
Event Information
- This event is by invite only
- Travel subsidies and accommodation reimbursement available
- Breakfast and Lunch included
