Effectiveness of Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Among First Nations, Métis and Inuit Populations
Scan of published literature with a focus on cultural and need-based interventions.
Scan of published literature with a focus on cultural and need-based interventions.
Review of 48 documents relating to challenges, priorities and promising practices.
Search strategy involved academic databases, search engine queries, targeted website review, and reference tracking. Forty-four sources were located. Definitions of land-based healing, Indigenous and Western frameworks, wise practices, and characteristics of specific programs are discussed.
Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.
For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."