Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Heart (PKFC) is launching a brand new program of wholesome way of life initiatives in Rankin Inlet this month.
PKFC CEO Pela Sharp mentioned talks started final November with the addictions division to start out doing extra locally.
Initially, PKFC was going to implement the Wholesome January initiative, however with the Christmas holidays over and workers returning to work, they thought a Wholesome February can be a greater choice, Sharp mentioned.
The timing gave the friendship middle sufficient time to start coordinating and planning a full month of February occasions for all the group to take pleasure in.
“So it began at a workers assembly in January about the right way to do a wholesome occasion in February, and that is the place all of the brainstorming began for various kinds of occasions we must always do,” Sharp mentioned.
“It was a teamwork train all through the tire. We now have round 40 workers members and the conversations that came about have been phenomenal.
“Simply watching the workers have all these discussions and plan occasions was completely unbelievable.
“So my position was to permit them to proceed the conversations, transfer ahead and get this off the bottom.”
Sharp mentioned the village was beneficiant in donating the group corridor and drop-in middle freed from cost to host the PKFC’s February lineup.
Confirmed occasions embody a craft and board video games night time on the drop-in middle from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday nights for any age group.
“Our Wednesday occasions are a bit totally different and we’ll be kicking off the primary one with a children’ pizza get together, which is able to run from four p.m. to five:30 p.m.,” Sharp mentioned.
“We’re encouraging all the varsity kids to come back to the drop-in middle and eat pizza with us. I feel now we have about 60 pizzas prepared for our first pizza night time as a result of we do not know what number of children will come.
“It is an occasion for teenagers to come back and discuss. “It is to point out them that there are organizations that assist kids and adolescents who is perhaps affected by alcohol inside their households, or by peer stress, or one thing like that.”
Sharp mentioned Tuesdays and Wednesdays can be geared towards the youthful technology, whereas Thursdays and Fridays will focus extra on grownup actions.
“We may even be doing scavenger hunts and partnering with Nunavut Arctic School to host a university pupil night time the place we’ll invite them to our constructing to serve conventional meals.”
Sharp mentioned school night time can be vital as a result of school college students come from everywhere in the territory, not simply Rankin Inlet. Employees members will clarify what they do at PKFC as a result of it has many packages to supply, such because the spousal abuse program, addictions division, psychological well being division, varied counseling companies, males’s programming, prenatal programming, and others.
“So we simply wish to introduce all of the totally different programming that now we have to varsity college students,” Sharp mentioned.
“We now have a superb feeling about this programming. The preliminary response now we have already obtained on our Fb web page has been phenomenal. We now have obtained many likes and lots of shares…
“We wish to see all members of the Rankin Inlet group take pleasure in and respect the desires of those that wish to stay a more healthy way of life free of medication and alcohol.”
—By Darrell Greer