Annual report of the Gabriel Dumont Institute, located in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Historical note:

Survey of characteristics of graduates, evaluation of post-graduation employment opportunities, experiences while attending, satisfaction with programs, and number of students pursuing additional education.

CN Railway human resources representatives describe company's recruitment challenges and strategies, and employment opportunities. Representative from IBM discusses the company's innovative technology, collaborative initiatives, and the IGNITE program for K-12 students. Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 1:11:27.

Audit addressed programs and activities of the selected federal departments between 2004 and 2009. Certain tests relied on information dating back as far as 2000.

Provides brief information, updates, and progress on initiatives taking place in each of four regions: Western, Prairie, Central, and Atlantic.

Makes recommendations to address specific challenges in the areas of education and training, health and wellness, and employment and entrepreneurship.

Survey delivered in two parts: part A provides community perceptions, demographics, experiences, recommendations and understandings, part B determines community strengths in listening, reading, writing English, problem solving, and numeracy.

Presents information gathered in 2000 while doing a community needs assessment. Sources included learners, literacy workers, tutors and social service agencies.

Guide for conducting workshops on Aboriginal approach to proficiency in reading, document and computer use, numeracy, written and oral communication, evaluation of information, and continuous learning. For use with Participant Workbook.

Aboriginal approach to proficiency in reading, document and computer use, numeracy, written and oral communication, evaluation of information, and continuous learning. For use with Facilitor Guide.

Discusses culturally appropriate objectives for literacy projects aimed to address the gap in programs and resources.

Sample size was 968 and survey was conducted January through April 2015. Recommendations developed based information gathered on demographics, Five Pillars of Financial Literacy (planning and managing financial affairs, public and private benefits, products and services, and protection from fraud), life events, and barriers to financial literacy.

Examines the process as members were trained, supported, and monitored as they introduced the participatory process to their communities.

Commemorates the graduating class of eleven Indigenous trainees from the two year Health Management course at Sydney (Australia) Hospital.

Reports on a training program for Aboriginal health workers in a remote region of the Northern Territory, Australia.

Provides brief description of the three week program offered in three centres: Adelaide, Port Augusta, Ernabella.

Overview of Aboriginal-direct programming and spending offered by the Government of Canada. The 360 programs and services are arranged under seven thematic headings: Health, Lifelong Learning, Housing, Safe and Sustainable Communities, Economic Opportunities, Lands and Resources and Governance and Relationships.

Master of Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--The University of Manitoba, 2013.

Purpose of report is to provide overview of best practices and highlight recurring issues in British Columbia, other parts of Canada and Australia. Looked at annual and symposium reports, internal documents and literature reviews.

Results of 38 interviews with Aboriginal courtworkers, crown prosecutors, judges, city police and RCMP officers in Alberta.

Paper presented at the First Nations, First Thoughts Conference held at the Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh May 5-6, 2005.

For use by adult learners. Curriculum designed for people who want to safely prepare food, find local food sources and promote traditional harvesting, work in the food industry or take the FOODSAFE Level 1 course. Worksheets link to one or more of nine essential skills.

Produced to help adult education teachers to evaluate learners' skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing and numeracy domains.

Created to guide adult basic education and literacy instructors in evaluating learners' skill strengths in listening, speaking, reading, writing and numeracy domains.

Includes links to general literacy information as well as specific instructional and learner resources.

Argues that practitioners need to re-examine some of their preconceptions about literacy when dealing with Indigenous cultures.

Author who is a white physician and faculty member of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine reports of the efforts of his University to attract and retain Native American medical students.

Discusses educational training possibilities for young people wanting to be health workers to serve in their home communities.

Notice asking for expressions of interest for up to ten interested Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander individuals seeking to add to their skills and experience through short term overseas observational study.

Focuses on demographics and statistical tables.

Discusses strategies to address barriers and achieve systemic institutional change for Aboriginal students. Related material: 2013 Progress Report. 2014 Progress Report.

Divided into nine sections associated with the partnership cycle: defining the partnership; identifying and approaching partners; assessing the partnership climate and building skills, creating infrastructure; delivery of project; monitoring and measuring; troubleshooting; revising and adapting; and moving on. Also includes tools such as checklists, sample letters, presentations, and questions, and templates.

Study looks at way to increase efficacy in incorporating Indigenous ways of seeing into classroom settings; teacher-participants evaluated professional learning from a day On Country. Feedback from educators recommends two day On Country, adequate in-school follow-up, and ongoing support through a blog.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1996.

Study investigates academic expectations of students who attend a doctoral-granting public university, to aid in understanding of student needs.

Discusses four-year study of Sioux and Winnebago peoples to develop and evaluate a diabetes education program; they found education about diet and diabetes is not enough, when access to healthier diet is a continuing problem.

Describes the process involved in receiving funding from Diabetes Australia to support the education program. Conclusions reached state the Aboriginal health worker is the best equipped to inform Aboriginal clients about diabetes management.

Compilation of several personal narratives from Australian Aboriginal health workers reporting on their roles in health care.

Various Aboriginal health workers from the Northern Territory, Australia describe the roles that they play in the health care system.

Describes a training program consisting of eight sessions over a two and a half year period with a significant Aboriginal representation in the administrative side of the program.

Examines perceptions of young Aboriginal mothers attending an urban FAS prevention program, discusses the two distinct uses of the term "culturally appropriate" in FAS pedagogy, and concludes with an analysis of the participants insights and the policy texts.

Pilot project findings found that online learning is a cost effective tool that can overcome geographical challenges presented by vast northern distances.