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.
Primary focus of recommendations was education, both on and off-reserve. The youths had relocated from their home communities to Thunder Bay in order to complete high school.
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.
He Tirohanga Ki Te ōritenga Hauora O Te Māori = A View on Māori Health Equity
E-Books
Author/Creator
Health Quality & Safety Commission [New Zealand]
Description
Examines inequities between the Māori and non-Māori population throughout five stages of the life course: maternity and birth, childhood, youth, adults, and older people.
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.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 5, September/October 2002, p. 14, 18
Description
Describes aim of Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) which is to increase New South Wales Indigenous education retention rates.
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.
Canadian Geographic, vol. 122, no. 4, July-August 2002, pp. 68-[?]
Description
Discovery of items which date from 90 to 7,500 years old, among the oldest organic artifacts in North America, generates excitement among First Nations youth.
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.
Authors conducted key informant interviews with people who had known five homeless individuals who had died within the previous three years to develop a "lifeline map" of the subject's experiences from childhood to death. Significant events such as family separation and apprehension by child welfare agencies, relationships, instances of violence, incarceration, and hospitalizations were tracked to gain a picture of their lives and insight into the events leading up to their deaths.
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.
Discusses the voluntary foster-care program which places adolescents with Mormon families for a period of one year with the option to return each fall.
Towards Anthropology / Archaeology Thesis (B.Sc.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992.
Journal of World History, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 1992, pp. 219-237
Description
Discusses girls' experiences at residential schools, contrasts them to traditional child-rearing practices, and highlights the implications for subsequent generations.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2019, p. Article 1
Description
Discusses outcomes of an seven-week participatory activity program for First Nations and Métis women and girls. Participants were given an opportunity to discuss the impact of trauma on adults' abilities to model healthy adult behaviours and life skills to their children; also considers ways to make positive change.
Policy Paper Series (Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria (FVPLS Victoria)
Description
Looks at: family law, cultural awareness and services, child protection and the legal system, family violence law, victim assistance, impact of being a witness, police response and restorative justice.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 48, no. 2, Summer, 2002, pp. 98-121
Description
Looks at culturally relevant themes to see which parts of culture influence students and could potentially result in successful academic achievement and retention rates.