Text Box: Text Box: Empowering 
Aboriginal 
Youth
Text Box: CHARLES J. ANDREW YOUTH TREATMENT CENTRE
Text Box: LIFE SKILLS

 

 

                                                                                          

 

                                                                                          

Other program components include: building a lean-to, storytelling and sharing circles, one-on-one counseling, a family program along with youth sharing their own culture.

The life skills portion of the program is done on the land as part of the Nutshimit Program.

 

During Life Skills clients receive training in areas of food preparation, survival skills, sweat ceremonies, healing circles,  hunting, fishing, canoeing, snow-mobiling, hiking, snow-shoeing, berry picking, pitching a tent and breaking camp, and traditional crafts.