Engaging Northern Youth – Youth Committee

Listening to the voices of youth is an important value to Indigenous communities. Youth engagement is linked to positive outcomes for young people, adults, agencies, and communities. Research projects that can integrate youth successfully in planning and making decisions are likely to be more effective and produce better research findings. Hotıì ts’eeda’s summer students engaged in a field research project in the summer of 2018 to ask youth the best ways to engage them. They developed some key findings that can help health researchers and others involved in the health system better connect with youth.