Looks at factors relating to well-being and health in First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in relation to historical trauma and contemporary stresses.
Duration: 1:10:02.
Review found that there is a need for affordable mental health services for children and youth and recommends an increase to prevention funding which specifically targets at risk youth and adolescents.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 5, September/October 2006, pp. 22-28
Description
Biographical article of Nancy De Vries, a registered nurse who was removed from her mother and raised in a white family environment.
Extracted from The Lost Children edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read.
Reports on responses to 13 questions about experiences of Indigenous girls, consultations with community members about what is happening, and what is needs to be done, and concludes with four recommendations based on research.