Report designed to inform Ontario's Best Start Child and Family Centre model for delivering child and family services. Includes results of literature review, case study conducted at Regent Park and Scarborough sites which involved stakeholder interviews with 95 respondents and focus groups, and discussion of how the general model can be adapted to meet Indigenous early childhood and family services needs.
Survey conducted in 2015-2016 used Respondent Driven Sampling to achieve sample size of 908. In addition to health questions respondents were asked about a wide range of topics including culture, identity, housing, school experience, and parenting.
Discusses the elements of community well-being, Indigenous understandings of it, the five outcomes (self-knowledge, strong families, self-determination, cultural equity, and vibrant communities), and outlines actions needed at policy, system, and program levels.
File contains a presentation by Anne Rochon Ford, Vicki Ann Wagner, Interim Regulatory Council on Midwifery. The two presenters discuss their organization (funded by the province of Ontario), their work with Aboriginal peoples, jurisdictional issues, the loss of the traditional Aboriginal midwife in Aboriginal society, the desire to incorporate new practices with old, and related issues. They also discuss community birthing centres so that midwifes could be both trained and utilized in a culturally appropriate setting.
File contains a presentation by RMP (Ron Momogeeshick Peters), an Ojibwa man, relates his personal life story including relationship difficulties and the struggles he has faced in his life.
File contains a presentation by Vern Douglas and Ken Richard of Native Child and Family Services. Douglas discusses the history of the organization in Toronto, and how it came about as a grassroots organization amongst Aboriginal people who had been victims of the Child Welfare system. He discusses the mandate of the organization and the composition of its board which is balanced between several Aboriginal groups. Ken Richards discusses the services the organization provides for Aboriginal children and families, and some of the data involved.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Merle Assance-Beedie
Description
This file contains a part of a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at The Fern Resort, Orillia, Ontario. This part includes a presentation by Merle Assance-Beedie at the Round Table discussion on Relationship issues with "ourselves, our families and our community."