Mushquash, Christopher

Assessment looked at: communities, needs, approaches, goals, team development, culture and traditional healing, signs of success and continuing challenges and areas of improvement at four locations. Includes lessons learned and recommendations.

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.

Looks at combined quantitative and qualitative results drawing attention to cultural issues affecting Mi'kmaq teens' drinking behaviours.

Looks at ways to overcome the financial, geographic and cultural barriers of working on research in Aboriginal communities.

Essays by scholars, practitioners and learners written with an emphasis on the relational and wholistic nature of Indigenous health discuss how the pandemic has affected individuals and communities.

Information arranged under five phases: grounding the program in community values and principles; having community readiness; experiencing a catalyst; creating a palliative care program; and growing the palliative care program.

Interviews with five First Nations Elders to gain a better understanding of health, healthy eating and ideal body image and the relationship to the well-being of youth.

Paper given at the Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, dialog and conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 2-3, 2016.

Reviewed literature from journal publications, public reports and grey literature published from 2000 to 2015. Found that information was extremely limited, fragmented, inconsistent, and most often ad hoc or cross-sectional snap shots which did little to track over-time trends or comparisons with non-Aboriginal population.

Documents the ways Indigenous communities and research teams are benefiting from two-eyed seeing, the compilation of Indigenous and Western ways of knowing.

Summarizes issue in Indigenous communities, provides overview of what is known to be helpful from the perspective of Indigenous communities and published literature, and makes a number of recommendations grounded in culture.