Summarizes key decisions relevant to industry and project proponents and discusses how they effect carrying out the duty to consult with Indigenous peoples.
Aboriginal and Islander health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 6, November/December 1995, pp. 26-28
Description
Researches issues of discrimination between white social workers in ACT Health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, prompting changes and the hiring of an Aboriginal Liaison Officer.
Discusses practices which foster skills such as critical thinking, participation, communication, problem-solving, decision-making, creative thinking, collaboration, and information gathering.
Largely based on Statistics Canada's 2001 Census of Population, and supplemented by information from Labour Force Survey and Manitoba Bureau of Statistics' demographic projections.
Describes vision and action strategies for Aboriginal Mental Health by providing influential background factors, documentation, direction for service providers, and coordination of facilities and service delivery.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, January/February 1995, pp. 12-17
Description
Discusses the process of learning from permanence of objects, permanence of feelings and cognitive development. Follows a boy named Peter from infancy to preschool.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 4, July/August 1993, pp. 23-32
Description
Looks at the skills needed to have effective communication between health workers and patients: attitude, behaviour, verbal communication, information delivery, and concluding the conversation.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 5, September/October 1993, pp. 13-19
Description
Looks at important symptoms for common mental health problems at different ages. The first groups deals with behaviours or problems with normal behaviour and the second group deals with behaviours that are abnormal.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 97, no. 4, July/August 2006, pp. 305-[?]
Description
Diabetes Outreach Van Enhancement (DOVE) study conducted to determine whether demographic or clinical differences existed between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal patients with type 2 diabetes.
Focuses on opportunities in hard-rock and placer mining. Sources of information include literature review and interviews with Aboriginal leaders, territorial and federal government mining department staff, and industry representatives.
Study undertaken assess what steps could be taken by Community Legal Education Ontario to improve access. Fifty-six individuals from over 40 agencies provided information through interviews or focus groups.
This resource, on archivianet, published by the Library and Archives Canada, provides guides to the federal government Record Groups (RG) 10 (Indian Affairs) Inventory and 15 (Métis Scrip Records) and also other information.
Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addiction Services in Canada
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Michael J. L. Kirby
Wilbert Joseph Keon
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Chapter 14 from Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addiction Services in Canada by the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.
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