Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth's report on the investigation into several service agencies' involvement with a troubled teen who was eventually found murdered.
First Peoples Child & Family Services, vol. 3, no. 3, 2007, pp. 72-83
Description
Highlights the tools outlined in Deborah Stone's book ,Policy Parodox: The Art of Political Decision Making, to demonstrate why school policies should be developed to prevent obesity in schools.
Positive Self-Reported Health might be an Important Determinant of Students’s Experiences of High School in Northern Sweden
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hanna Forsberg
Heidi Carlerby
Annika Norstrand
Anitha Risberg
Catrine Kostenius
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study used data from the health dialogue questionnaire which surveyed 5035 students between 2013 and 2016; results were analyzed to determine associations between positive self-reported health and student experience. It was found that positive health is associated with positive experiences of school.
Research & policy papers (Centre for Addictions Research of BC) ; 4/2007
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Miranda Kelly
Description
Divided into six sections: reproductive, maternal, and fetal health, 0-4 years, 5-10 years, 11-17 years, and universal interventions. Each section has information on background, possible mechanisms of action and interventions.
The Act provides support for First Nations' authority over child and family services. Document discusses national legal principles, positive principles, standards and norms, restricting or constraining provisions, the interplay between elected Indian Act Band Councils and traditional governance structures, and the applicability of First Nations laws.
Act asserts Indigenous peoples' jurisdiction over child and family services and establishes national standards. Paper examines issues related to national standards, jurisdiction, funding, accountability and data collection.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 1, 2007, pp. 46-64
Description
Study on the importance of identity in adoption cross-cultural and a list of recommendations from the perspective of First Nation adoptees to improve the process.
Examines parent and community engagement, cultural and language programming, teachers, instruction and curriculum resources, professional development, and individual students supports at Francis of Assisi Elementary School and Le Roi Daniels Elementary School.
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 43, no. 6, 2007, pp. 429-437
Description
Looks at the impact and cultural appropriateness of program concluding with decreased rates of behaviour problems and dysfunctional parenting practices.
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 1, Supplement, February 2007, pp. S54-S57
Description
Comments on some of the constraints of mainstream therapeutic methodologies and makes suggestions to ensure a therapeutic setting for both client and therapist.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 4, 2007, pp. 72-82
Description
Argues that healing is a critical component of any intervention. The article also gives a short history of residential school trauma and recent government initiatives aimed at preserving traditional Aboriginal healing practices.
Image of a refugee camp during the Northwest Resistance. Women and children of Batoche were permitted to leave the village to escape enemy fire. Visible are supplies piled up on the ground in front of a cluster of tents.
Alberta First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey 2002/03
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rhonda King Blood
Description
Statistics gathered from nine First Nations: Alexander First Nation, Kapawe’no First Nation, Siksika Nation, Blood Tribe, Nakoda Bearspaw Nation, Sucker Creek First Nation, Driftpile First Nation, Piikani First Nation, and Swan River First Nation. Response divided into adults, youth and children.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 11, November 2007, p. 10
Description
Looks at video shown to Saskatoon high school students, at the Honouring Residential School Survivors Symposium, followed by talks with three survivors from the video.
Article located by scrolling to page 10.
Introduction: People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marilyn Callahan
Christopher Walmsley
Description
"This chapter highlights the importance of not discarding our past but, rather, understanding the actions of social work pioneers within the context of their times and gaining appreciation for their accomplishments".
Introduction and Chapter 1 from People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia edited by Leslie T. Foster and Brian Wharf.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 3, Series 2: Linda Hogan: Calling Us Home, Fall, 1994, pp. 71-92
Description
Book reviews of:
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook by Paula Gunn Allen.
The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary
American Indian Fiction edited by Alan Velie.
The Things That Were Said of Them as told by Asatchaq; translated from the Inupiaq by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein.
wanisinwak iskwêsisak awasisasinahikanis: A Cree Story for Children as told by Nêhiyaw/Glecia Bear.
The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich.
The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie.
Full Moon on the Reservation by Gloria Bird.
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