About this Event
2025 YSPOR Health Summit
REGISTER NOW! We are excited to welcome you to our 4th Annual YSPOR Health Summit on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Our theme this year is Collaborating in a Good Way, and we have another wonderful lineup of speakers and wellness activities programmed for you this year.
We are honoured to welcome our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Jaris Swidrovich to our 2025 Summit.Dr. Jaris Swidrovich, BSP, PharmD, PhD, AAHIVP, RPh (he/they) is an Assistant Professor, Tenure Stream, and Indigenous Engagement Lead in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Ph*rm*cy at the University of Toronto. He is a queer, Two Spirit, Saulteaux and Ukrainian pharmacist from Yellow Quill First Nation (Treaty 4 territory, Saskatchewan). His mother was a 60s Scoop survivor and his grandmother and great-grandmother both survived Indian Residential Schools.We look forward to seeing you on November 4!
Thank you for registering. We look forward to seeing you on November 4, 2025.
A big thank you to our partners and sponsors for our 2025 Summit:
Gunta Business Consulting
Air North
Alkan Air
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Chieftan Energy
Gunta Business Consulting
Public Health Agency of Canada
Yukon University
*Wellness activities will be available for in-person sign-up at registration on the day of the event.
Need answers ASAP? Contact Riley Denneny at [email protected].
LONGHOUSE
🕑: 08:00 AM
Registration Desk Open
🕑: 08:30 AM
Opening
🕑: 09:35 AM - 10:35 AM
Keynote Speaker
Host: Dr. Jaris Swidrovich
🕑: 10:35 AM
Morning Break
🕑: 10:50 AM
Feature Panel
🕑: 12:20 PM
Lunch Break
🕑: 01:20 PM
Dance Interventions in Long-Term Care and their Impact on Quality of Life
🕑: 02:25 PM
Lived Experience Partner Network Deconstructed Panel
🕑: 03:05 PM
Health Break
🕑: 03:20 PM
Elders Reflection Circle
🕑: 04:20 PM
Drumming & Song
🕑: 04:30 PM
Closing Remarks
🕑: 04:35 PM
Closing Fire
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM
🕑: 01:20 PM
Practices of Mutual Aid
🕑: 01:40 PM
NEIHR
🕑: 02:00 PM
RPAY
🕑: 02:25 PM
YSPOR Group Presentation
🕑: 03:05 PM
Health Break (Move to Longhouse)
WELLNESS ACTIVITIES
🕑: 08:30 AM - 04:35 PM
Ceremonial Fire
Host: Dorron Fox
🕑: 10:35 AM
Yoga Meditation
🕑: 10:35 AM
Wellness Activity - TBA
🕑: 01:20 PM
Meditative River Walk
Host: Amber Berard-Althouse
🕑: 01:20 PM
Wellness Activity - TBA
🕑: 02:25 PM - 02:00 AM
Book Reading: Sit in my Puddle
Host: Erin Legault
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street, Whitehorse, Canada
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