Explains the need for the Saskatchewan child welfare system to provide better support, financial and other, for Aboriginal Grandmothers who are caring for their grandchildren.
Statistics on demographic trends, culture and language, continuous learning, work and participation in society, living arrangements and housing, and health and well-being.
Chapter six of A Portrait of Seniors in Canada 2006.
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Guidelines designed create resources to support community driven initiatives and services that specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal children with special needs.
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 7, no. 796, September 21, 2007, pp. 1-12
Description
Findings indicate that perceptions of care are informed by cultural values in five themes: passing on traditions, being chosen as caregiver, support within the circle of healers, establishing circles of care and accepting of refusing external resources.
Curriculum designed to be conducted by an Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) expert and an attorney who have experience in this area. Time frame for this training is four hours.
National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work ; 19th, 2007
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
ManSoo Yu
Description
Examines multiple potential determinants in adolescents - psychiatric disorders, positive familial, social and cultural environments. Results will aid in intervention/prevention strategies.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 355-369
Description
Examines the negative and positive aspects of providing elder care, describing low levels of burden and high levels of reward, attributable to cultural attitudes toward elders.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 371-383
Description
Examines the role of American Indian grandparents who assume custodial responsibility of providing sole care for their grandchildren and the stressors and rewards of providing that care.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 46-51
Description
Explores the historic and contemporary relationship with Aboriginal peoples in child welfare and discusses how social workers can adopt culturally appropriate service models that integrates core Aboriginal values, beliefs, and healing practices.
Interview includes two stories: the first about a boy who saves a boy and wins a wife in the process; a second about a boy who upon returning to his band with a wife becomes chief.
Discusses the parallels between the experiences of children in residential schools with child protection practices which targeted Roma in Europe to build a case for compensation for the Romani families.
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 40-30S4-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anna Gay
Marlisa Tiedemann
Description
Brief description of background and contents of Act, which involves division of property when a conjugal relationship breaks down. Provisional rules in the bill apply until a First Nation has enacted laws of its own.
Revised version. Originally published April 1, 2010.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, pp. 75-83
Description
Discusses similarities of two residential structures, government schools and foster homes, that have housed Aboriginal children when they were removed from their people. The paper is an attempt to influence child welfare practice in ways that would respect the integrity of family and Aboriginal communities.
Information manual topics include: First Nations child rearing practices, developmental milestones and stages of life, healthy child development issues, strategies to promote healthy child development, how parents can be positive role models and more.
Fast Facts (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Shauna MacKinnon]
Description
Argues that while the process is not an easy one, Aboriginal control and administration of Aboriginal child welfare is essential to reduce the rates of children in care.