Discusses the importance of First Nations control over the adoption process and the need for government funding to support culturally based adoption services and programs.
Information from the BC Ministry of Health Health System Matrix database. Includes hospital, physician, chronic conditions, home and residential care service data.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 32-33
Description
Describes a social support initiative that provides temporary care for young Aboriginal children whose parents are incapacitated by hospitalization or other situations.
Report of panel struck in 2010 to conduct a comprehensive review of the child welfare system in Saskatchewan and make recommendations for improvements.
Looks at re-designing Indigenous school-based health programs and practices to include indigenous ways of knowing, learning, traditions, and values of the community.
Discusses the inequity of federal funding to First Nations Child and Family Services Program in comparison to provincial agencies and off reserve child welfare programs.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 9, September 2010, p. 3,5
Description
Comments on Governor General Michaëlle Jean's tour through Saskatchewan during the International Year of Youth.
Article found by scrolling to pages 3 and 5.
Lost Kids: Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States
Wanted Kids? Institutions, Fostering, and Adoption
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Karen Dubinsky
Description
Argues that the issue is much more complex than the binaries of "kidnap" versus "rescue" would indicate.
Introduction and chapter one from: Lost Kids: Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States edited by Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris, and Veronica Strong-Boag.
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 2, Ngaahi Lea a e Kakai Pasifika: Endangered Pacific Languages and Cultures, 2010, pp. 143-154
Description
Discusses how cultural expectations influence male and female educational achievement and looks at ways to address better educational participation and accomplishment.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, resources and various articles, including Aboriginal Suicide is Different by Colin Tatz.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors. Contains letters, pictures, and articles including Healing Within the Circle by Gloria Durnmitt.
Story of a fist-time mother who consults two sources for information: her doctor for scientific view of birth and her grandmother for nurturing and traditional support.
For use with Healthy Pregnancy: Jenny's Story: Student Activities.
Discusses the history non-native social workers within Aboriginal communities and the beginning of First Nations' control of child welfare.
Duration: 7:11.
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care , vol. 21, no. 5, September/October 2010, pp. 449-454
Description
Study based on interviews with eight participants from across forty-three communities and focused on five key prevention issues: definition, types of activities, prevention levels, target groups, and facilitation and barriers.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. lx-lxiii
Description
Looks at Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) as an effective treatment model for parents who either have difficulty with appropriate parenting skills or children with behavioural problems.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page lx.
Looks at the recommendations that were generated by youth, researchers, practitioners and policy makers in four workshops during the seminar.
"November 7-8, 2009. Conference Report"
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 49, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 7-27
Description
Concludes that "early childhood educators should encourage and support Indigenous parents', families', and communities' efforts to ensure that their children acquire their Indigenous languages and cultures by identifying, embracing and incorporating Indigenous perspectives on how children learn in early childhood programs and classrooms".
Awarding-Winning Novelist on the Link Between Residential Schools and the Devastation of Native Suicide
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joseph Boyden
Maclean's, vol. 123, no. 25/26, July 5, 2010, pp. 20-23
Description
Award-winning novelist believes that there is a direct correlation between the high Aboriginal youth suicide-rate and the legacy of residential schools.