Juvenile Justice, vol. 7, no. 2, December 2000, p. [?]
Description
Senator discusses challenges facing American Indian youth such as having a conventional childhood, getting a good education and being able to find employment in today's market.
Online conference consists of two panels which address the questions "How might data better help us understand the unequal effects of COVID-19 and ensure Indigenous capacity, preparedness and resilience?' and 'How has the community experienced COVID-19?'.
Duration: 3:04:32.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, March/April 1994, p. 26
Description
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee to look at report and travel around Australia talking to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about state and territory implementation of recommendations.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur
Secrétariat à la condition
Description
Discusses provincial government's past and present relationship with Aboriginal peoples, and interactions between the Aboriginal population and provincial ministries and agencies such as the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security, Correctional Services, Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
The file contains a presentation by Wes Whetung and Sanford Cottrelle of Newberry House (a halfway house). Whetung and Cottrelle discuss the prison system and Aboriginal offenders offering a comparative view of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal halfway houses, compensation for former residential school residents, accessible moneys to implement both cultural and non-cultural programs for children and youth, and stereotypes of Aboriginal people in text-books. Commissioners Dussault and Sillett discuss some of the issues raised with the two presenters.
Investigation into the death of a sixteen year old youth who became ill while incarcerated at a Youth Residence and was denied entitlement to healthcare services and reasonable accommodation based on a hearing impairment.
Analysis on tuberculosis (TB) assessments in the Correctional Service of Canada from 1999 to 2001. The highest rates were observed among foreign-born and Aboriginal inmates.
Describes issues such as missing and murdered women, education, health care, and over-representation in the criminal justice system and gives statement of action required by Canada to address each problem.