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Changes in Lifestyles & Environments
Changes in Lifestyles & Environments

SIRCLE aims to create wellness supporting environments for kids, their families, and their communities.
SIRCLE is Dr. Kate Storey’s Research Lab. Dr. Storey is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair, and Distinguished Researcher, Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.
What We’re Up To
SIRCLE delivers and evaluates school- and community-based healthy living programs throughout Canada which promote wholistic health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health inequities. We work to create systems-level change through projects that foster resilience and empowerment and builds on the strengths of communities.
SIRCLE-led Projects
Partner-led Projects
What’s New

The magic of mentorship: How an after-school program is building brighter futures for Indigenous youth
How can volunteering for an after-school program help you finish high school, go to university and even get a job? It’s all through the power of mentorship — having a role model and being one yourself. It promotes leadership skills, builds confidence, and fosters Mino-Bimaadiziwin (Anishinaabe) or mino-pimâtisiwin (Cree), which means “living in a good way.”
The Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program taps into that power for young people in five provinces, and now it will expand further thanks to a new Applied Public Health Chair grant of $1.5 million awarded by the federal government to Kate Storey, associate professor in the School of Public Health and Stollery Science Lab Distinguished Researcher.
Learn more about the program and how Dr. Storey’s CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair will support IYMP in this recent article.