YANA Infertility Support

31/05/2025

13/05/2025

Our next meeting is tomorrow.

You can direct message, email or join our private Facebook group for the virtual link to this month’s meeting.

02/04/2025

🌿 Join Us for This Month’s Peer Support Group—In Person! 🌿
This month, we’re taking our peer support group outside! Instead of meeting virtually, we’ll be getting together in person for a walk at Meewasin Park.

📅 Date: Friday April 11
⏰ Time: 7 pm
📍 Location: Meewasin Park (near building/parking lot)

Come connect, share, and support one another while enjoying some fresh air and movement. Whether you want to chat or simply enjoy the walk, all are welcome. Though please refrain from bringing any children to the meet up.

Let us know if you can make it! We can’t wait to see you there. 🌞💙

23/02/2025

Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.

Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.

My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.

So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.

Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.

23/01/2025

Hey all just wanting to share an email from Aleana Young, MLA Regina South Albert. Feel free to email yanasaskatoon@gmail.com and I can send you a PDF version of the petition to sign.
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Dear Neighbours,

I’m writing to you to thank you for your interest and support of IVF and Fertility Care funding in Saskatchewan. You’re receiving this email because in the last four years, you signed a petition created by my office, calling on the Government of Saskatchewan to fund fertility treatments, up to and including two rounds of IVF for Saskatchewan people struggling with infertility.

In the last sitting of the assembly, I rose 56 times to present your petition, and shared your stories and hopes and struggles on the floor of the assembly. There are videos available on my Instagram and a few on my Facebook, as well as the Legislative Assembly feed, if you would like to watch. I could have risen hundreds more, thanks to the important work you did signing this petition, reaching out to my office, and having your neighbours, friends, and family members sign as well. On the last day of the assembly, I submitted a massive stack of petitions I had not yet been able to submit individually. Thank you for your care and courage and the support you’ve shown to the community and this issue. We had support from Archerwill to Bengough, Churchbridge to Meadow Lake, and everywhere in between. It was powerful.

As you may know, these advocacy efforts had some impact – which is encouraging. In the last election campaign, both major parties had platforms which included fertility care, and the Saskatchewan Party, having won the last election, is – I hope – in the process of implementing their tax credit promise.

However, while this is encouraging, as many of you know all too well, a tax credit does nothing to help those who cannot afford the thousands of dollars in the first place and will still leave families and individuals out of pocket until they get some measure back at tax time. As such, a new petition has been created, and I would ask for your help again in spreading the word, getting signatures from your friends and neighbours, and acquaintances across Saskatchewan. This is a nonpartisan issue, and impacts people regardless of faith, politics, geography, or situation. Any MLA can present this petition, although to date, no government MLA has chosen to. However, the more that we can show this is not a partisan issue, and the more voices we have from across Saskatchewan, the more understanding we can build.

I have attached the new petition and ask for your help in ensuring each page has THREE signatures and complete information (required for me to present it). All petitions must be received in original form (sadly, the Legislature cannot accept scans, only hard copy originals) and can be mailed to the address on the bottom of the petition.

If there is additional advocacy I can do on your behalf, please do not hesitate to reach out. I can help facilitate contact with your representative, meetings, letters, or other forms of engagement best suited to you.

If you are part of an organization or support group – please feel encouraged to share and circulate the petition and this email. I am committed to continuing this work until we achieve equitable and free access to fertility care.

Best,

Aleana

Aleana Young, MLA Regina South Albert
NDP Caucus
Shadow Minister for Economy and Jobs; Sask Power.
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2213 Broad Street
Treaty 4 Territory
Regina SK, S4P 1Y7
306.545.0300
reginasouthalbert@ndpcaucus.sk.ca

09/01/2025

New year, new hope.

Join us Tuesday January 14th at 7 PM CST for our first peer support group meeting of the year. Are you wanting connection with others that may also understand? Did you struggle during the holidays and want to unpack? Are you feeling hopeful and wanting to carrying this hope into the new year? Are you starting a new chapter of fertility treatments, waiting on procedures, or in the middle of trying?

We’re here to listen and support.

Mark your calendars. DM, email or connect with us on our private Facebook group for the virtual meeting details.

All are welcome. We understand that virtual meetings can help us bridge the distance for those out of town and can make joining your first meeting just a little bit easier. Please visit our website to familiarize yourself with some of the guidelines for our support group meetings.

02/12/2024

Worst club to be a part of, but certainly we have the best members.

Most days I miss the person I was before infertility, but somehow I’m also grateful for the strength, resilience, and compassion I see in myself and those around me. There is something special about having the ability to hold a bit of hope for those walking this difficult journey when they cannot do it for themselves.

25/11/2024

The next YANA meeting is just over one week away. This month’s meeting will be in person. There is something special about in-person meetings that we can’t explain and some of our members certainly prefer it. That being said if there is interest we can try to provide a hybrid option for people to join us virtually. We’re not really well set up for hybrid meetings but we’re willing to try.

Are you more likely to join if there is a hybrid option? (Note I will only be able to see poll responses on this post on Instagram)

12/11/2024

Sometimes I need the reminder that no matter how much I am hoping to grow our family, my family is still a family without a child. I can still be proud of the little life we’ve created and my value isn’t tied to my ability to bring a child into the world.