Child Welfare, vol. 82, no. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 201-207
Description
Describes collaboration among a university, a state child welfare agency, and a Native American community organization to develop a culturally driven practice model for urban, Native American child welfare.
Topics include context, healing journey and resiliency theory, culturally appropriate evidence-informed practices and examples of programs in Canada and the United States.
Looks at experiences of social workers in agencies providing guardianship and protective services to children and families within and outside Indigenous communities and reports how current funding arrangements affect availability of supports.
Raising Adult Literacy Skills: The Need for A Pan-Canadian Response: Report of the Standing committee on Human Resources Development and Status of Persons With Disabilities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities
Description
Chapter Four of Raising Adult Literacy Skills: The Need for A Pan-Canadian Response
Gathering held to help build and enhance policies, programs and services that are relevant to, and supportive of the needs of Aboriginal peoples. Held in Whistler, British Columbia, December 1-3, 2003.
Performance Indicators Children and Youth in Care (CYIC)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
Government of British Columbia]
Description
Data for Indigenous and general population on: progression by school district, appropriateness of grade, high school completion; and results of Foundation Skills Assessment for reading, writing numeracy, Grades 4 and 7.
Briefly looks at areas where rights are being compromised, what can be done to ensure those rights, and national and international action for Indigenous children. References the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Looks at the failure of the public school system to support the success of Aboriginal students due to funding, assessment, program design, training, curriculum and continuity of goals.
Office of Audit and Evaluation Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada
Description
Describes and analyzes program which was developed to deliver holistic programs to Indigenous children aged 0 to 6. Presents findings and recommendations.
Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter, 2003, pp. 135-154
Description
Focuses on Aboriginal smoking initiation and presents a forum to examine cessation and prevention strategies. Also includes "A Community Comment" by Ron Sunshine, Treaty 8 Health Authority.
Canadian Review of Social Policy, vol. 51, Spring/Summer, 2003, pp. 49-66
Description
Outlines development process for the expansion of authority to First Nations Child and Family Services agencies off reserve, and to start a Métis Child Welfare agency.
Child Welfare, vol. 74, no. 1, January-February 1995, pp. 264-82
Description
Discusses the law passed in 1978 as result of actions initiated by the Devils Lake Sioux in collaboration with the Association on American Indian Affairs (AIAA); the objective was to reverse the trend of out-of-home placement, and in particular trans-racial placements.
Journal of Primary Prevention, vol. 38, no. 1-2, April 2017, pp. 105-119
Description
Study examines the associations between culturally specific factors and current smoking off-reserve First Nations and Métis aged 15-17 years old compared to non-Indigenous Canadian youth.