'We are committed to creating pathways for First Nations high school students to the rehabilitation professions: occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy.'
“For the past three years, we have partnered with U of A rehabilitation medicine to develop this dual credit for our high school students. And we’re hoping that a lot more students will be interested in Indigenous OT, PT and speech, so we have Indigenous practitioners in the province.”
“We’re very short of rehabilitation professionals in the north and on Treaty 8 lands and we’re really short of all health-care professionals in the north,” Hopper said. “We would like to see students coming into these programs and then having flexible enough learning opportunities so that they can also be in community as well and work in community when they graduate.”
Billy-Joe Laboucan, Grand Chief of education for Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, says this will be extremely beneficial to Indigenous youth in the north.“We have many Indigenous students in Northern Alberta that don’t have readily accessible programming. “I believe that actions speak louder than words. And I think the University of Alberta is backing up the actions by singing this MOU for dual credits with Treaty 8 Polytechnic,” Laboucan said.Story continues below advertisement
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