Native First Nations shall be invited to hitch PRRD Healthcare Scholarship Committee

DAWSON CREEK, BC – The Peace River Regional District is planning to ask neighboring First Nations in the event that they’re fascinated by positions representing their communities on the Effectively being Care Scholarship Committee board.

The district may additionally attain out to the First Nations Effectively being Authority to gauge its curiosity in turning into a member of Northern Effectively being and completely totally different post-secondary institutions in a collaborative functionality.

The plan to take motion comes inside the wake of present alterations to the phrases of reference of the committee that handles the regional district’s distribution of effectively being care scholarships. These modifications, put in place on January 14th, 2021, modified the committee from 4 members to six.

The place of the committee simply is not restricted to alternatives on to whom healthcare scholarships (along with every these to medical and nursing faculty college students) are awarded, though that’s positively part of its mandate.

The committee moreover implements board initiatives to recruit and retain healthcare professionals inside the Peace River space, manages the scholarship funds and functions, and makes healthcare-related solutions to the board, along with shifting or resizing scholarship functions as needed.

The distinctive motion, handed in November 2020, suggested the healthcare scholarship board broaden to include further members and likewise suggested the inclusion of Indigenous representatives.

When the expansion resurfaced in January 2021, based mostly on the PRRD report, there was no switch in order so as to add Indigenous representatives to the committee.