Well-being

Overview of development of funding formula and an outline of three funding formula options describing the benefits, restrictions and research plan for each option.

Brief discussion of issues as well as recommendations in seven key areas: access to technology; service workforce and funding arrangements; mental health; family violence; prevention and early intervention; support for kinship carers; and family and cultural contact, reunification and permanent care.

Goal of the program was to provide early intervention services which prevent entry and escalation of families in the statutory child protection system.

Focuses on improving children's dental health in Hartley Bay (Gitga'at), Tsimshian Nation.

Leadership Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2008.

Comments on an event that reconnected 150 children with their community.

Discusses the current failing child welfare system and offers ten recommendations for improvement.

Kinesiology and Health Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--Queen's University, 2008.

Book review of: The Broken Cord by M. Dorris.

Report of investigation into factors that may have led to the suicide of an 18-year-old Métis youth who was under the care of the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Explores how various Aboriginal communities in Queensland, Australia produced videos to combat the alarming rate of youth suicide.

Provides information about alcohol misuse that is of practical benefit to community-based service providers. The article contributes to the scientific study on the relation between anxiety/mood symptoms and addictive behaviours.

Symposium sponsored by the Native Mental Health Association of Canada and the Mood Disorders Society of Canada October 3 and 4, 2007 in Ottawa. Related Material: Building Bridges 2. Building Bridges 2: A Pathway to Cultural Safety, Relational Practice and Social Inclusion: Schedules "A" to "E" to Main Report.

Public Policy Thesis (M.P.P.)--Simon Fraser University, 2013.

Document discusses practices that have been highly effective in the education of at-risk Aboriginal children. It argues that to succeed the commitment, support, and shared resources of boards of education, teachers, parents, community members, and the provincial government are needed.

Brief document provides background information for roundtable discussions which were held in locations across Canada.

Provides summary of past and current policies and programs in Canada, discusses initiatives in Aboriginal communities and common themes or objectives, looks at international Indigenous communities for similarities in concerns and challenges and how they are responding.

Focuses on strategies which balance physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health. Includes three case studies: Winnipeg Aboriginal Sports Achievement Centre North, Makimautiksat Youth Wellness and Empowerment Camp, and Government of the Northwest Territories’ Take a Kid Trapping program.

Study focused the status of children, paying particular attention to federal programs and services available to them. Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.

Insights into the health, well-being and resilience of youth as it relates to sexual and injecting behaviour.

Describes the process of building research partnerships between universities, community organizations, and Aboriginal communities in urban centres.

Describes a program in Saskatchewan at the Montreal Lake First Nation that teaches at risk youth a meaningful trade and how to attain self-sufficiency.

Describes a program that records the narratives of youths who were bullied, the films were shown to non-Aboriginal youth in an effort to address racism and its effects.

Study results show little difference between male/female bullying and victimization rates or Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal differences.

Looks at the importance of teaching children responsibility and self-discipline. Article found by scrolling to page 5.

Investigates principle which states that First Nations children should have the same access and level of services as non-First Nations children in Canada.

Looks at 14 indicators.

Argues that jurisdiction over matters which affect children and families is part of the right to self-determination.

Report looks at the real possibility of a confrontation between Canada's Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities based on five determinants.

Submitted to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 55 Pre-Sessional Working Group Consideration of List of Issues, Sixth Periodic Report, Canada.

"This Occasional Paper is a working version of a chapter prepared for A Question of Commitment: Children's Rights in Canada (working title) edited by R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell..."

Discusses how First Nations children on reserves receive less child welfare funding than other children in Canada despite the fact that First Nations children have higher child welfare needs.

News release discusses the Tribunal's decision to dismiss the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) complaint regarding foster children funding levels.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 1999.

Discusses the notion of cultural harm during the residential school era, which is defined as "the breakdown of the spiritual, moral, health and emotional fabric of Indigenous people."

Special Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 1997

Fact sheet discusses importance of health and well-being to infant attachment and the impact colonization has had on relationships in Aboriginal families. Provides list of online resources for parents and caregivers.

Reports on caregiver knowledge and attitudes toward preschool oral health and early childhood caries (ECC) from four communities in Manitoba.

Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada speaks on inequities in funding for Aboriginal children, focusing on Jordan's Principle, Shannen's Dream, and the discrimination complaint lodged with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 (slide show) Total Duration: 41:88.

National survey study evaluated the extent of participation in the provision of culturally appropriate services to on-reserve populations.

Project was a collaboration with the communities of Fort Albany, Kashechewan and Attawapiskat First Nations and involved three distinct programs designed to address high rates of obesity and low diet quality. Chapter from Population Health Intervention Research Casebook.

Educational Policy Studies Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta, 1999.