Children & Youth

Proposes a generic framework for interventions aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating family violence and abuse from Aboriginal communities.

Reports that environmental factors are responsible for a large number of global child deaths and efforts should be made to reduce the risk for the next generation.

Overview of project aimed at Identifying and characterizing the vulnerability and resilience of food systems. Phase two looked at policy linkages and attempted to identify opportunities and priorities for adaptation intervention in high risk populations.

Discusses the International Youth Summit held prior to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.

Lists key recommendations relating to issues pertaining to Type 2 diabetes.

Environment and Geography Thesis (M.E.)--University of Manitoba, 2012.

Book review of: The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race by Roger Echo-Hawk.

Outlines detailed recommendations on ways to improve the Aboriginal child welfare system.

Recommendations for improving the way that child intervention works in Alberta. Final report.

Presents a speech, delivered by the Prime Minister of Australia, addressing narrowing the gap in life expectancy and life opportunities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Lists proposed commitments to address issues.

Comments on what the National Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples meant and what remains to be done as a country. Duration: 33:18.

Broad overview of the status of Aboriginal health in Canada.

Looks at characteristics of adolescent suicide, patterns of suicide, and intervention strategies during a suicide cluster.

Book review of Clyde Warrior by Paul R. McKenzie-Jones.

Review suggests that co-morbid states are a frequent finding in children and adolescents.

Study found that those who reported having sex at a later age and who scored higher on a measure of assertive communication reported higher levels of self-efficacy to use condoms.

Educational Psychology and Special Education Project (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2006.

Comments on the significant improvements in students who participated in the culturally modified version of the Adolescent Coping with Depression course.

Investigated the cognitive functioning of 269 adolescents and related their scores to PCBs in their blood.

Drama looks at an Indigenous youth attempting to find a place for himself. Duration: 1:15:36.

Concludes that the sexual health of young people living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland is an issue to more than one group of health care professionals.

Comments on a model which encompasses both systemic and direct practice efforts that assist families facing multiple challenges in creating a stable family life.

In this piece the authors discuss the funding, structure, goals, and vision of The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s (CRCAIH) Partnership River of Life to provided context for the rest of the special issue which shares some of the research and community results which came out of the partnership.

Discusses the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) Study.

Book review of: Collected Paper on the Human History of the Northwest Territories. Occasional Paper No. 1 edited by Margaret Jean Patterson, Charles D. Arnold and Robert R. Janes.

Short story.

Analyzes historic origins of violence and examines economic, political and social effects on the living conditions of young people. To access this article, scroll down to page 10.

Book reviews of: Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America edited by A. J. Woolford, J. Benvenuto and Al. L. Hinton. This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States by Andrew Woolford. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 175.

Comments on the role the Canadian government played in the systematic oppression and discrimination towards Indigenous women.

Discusses colonial suppression and attempts to extinguish Indigenous cultures and looks at ways to redress colonial injustices against Indigenous peoples.

Comments on the disproportionate number of sexually exploited Aboriginal female youth in British Columbia.

Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens. Scroll down to read paper. Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt. Scroll down to read paper.

Representative from the Indian Residential School Survivor's Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools. Duration: 20:51. Part 2. Part 3.

Shows how textbooks were used as tools to manipulate and justify colonization in the educational context.

Poem that deals with skin tone and self-image.

Comments on aboriginal rights and child welfare law.

Argues that past genocidal experiences in Australia have similarities as well as differences with Germany and explores what can be learned from this comparison.

Discussion based on the author's experience as the director of an urban Aboriginal service agency.

Comments regarding two articles; Margaret Wente's article in the Globe and Mail of October 13, 2007 Section A27 titled "White Guilt, dead children in the name of political correctness" and the response to this article in the next day of the Globe and Mail by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux' titled "Inside Looking Out, Outside Looking In".

Content consists of selected submissions and contracted papers that reflect research and opinion of organizations and writers on critical issues in justice reform in Saskatchewan. Volume I Legacy of Hope: An Agenda for Change.

Discusses the mandate of a yet-to-be formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding deaths and disappearances of former students in residential schools.

The study found that allelic variants of 4 genes are associated with variation in plasma lipoprotein traits in young aboriginals from Sandy Lake.