May 2025 Program Launch at the Yellow House

The WAYK team returns to the Yellow House, home of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim adult immersion program. Our collaboration with the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh learners at the Yellow House dates back to 2018. We will be at the Treehouse for two weeks in May 2025 as they launch the new cohort of their adult immersion program.

The full-time adult immersion program that runs at the Yellow House is run by the Sníchim Foundation in collaboration with Simon Fraser University’s Indigenous Languages Program and with support from the language team at Tsleil-Waututh Nation. This program has been running since 2016. The program has graduated 6 cohorts of a full-time immersion Certificate and one cohort of a full-time immersion Diploma. These full-time programs focus on proficiency development through language immersion and community building.

Our goal for this workshop is to introduce the methodology to the new Certificate cohort starting this spring and provide additional training and support for all participants. To learn more about the language program at the Yellow House, we highly recommend this FPCC webinar. The webinar is presented by program leaders Swú7wu Billy, Char George, and Salia Joseph.