Violence Prevention Toolkit: Facilitator Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
NWAC Youth Council
Description
Developed to provide Aboriginal youth and girls with tools to protect themselves, teach about safety nets and community resource people, and provide communities with tools to prevent youth violence.
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Violent Victimization and Perceptions of Safety: Experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women in Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Loanna Heidinger
Juristat, vol. [42], no. [1], April 26, 2022
Description
Most current self-reported data on lifetime (since age 15) prevalence of violent victimization and the prevalence of violent victimization in the past 12 months. Sources included the 2018 Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces (SSPPS), 2019 General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians’ Safety (Victimization), and five years (2015 to 2020) of data from the Homicide Survey.
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Vital to Divert Youths From Gangs, Drugs, Streets

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, September 14, 2007, p. A15
Description
Canada West Foundation's report, Hard Times, highlights the devastating issues needed to be addressed by Aboriginal organizations in order to avoid a 'social catastrophe'.
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Voice of a Leader: If You Truly Believe Children Are Our Future - the Future is Now

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne Chistian
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 10-14
Description
Modified speech by Chief Wayne Christian talking about the history of his community, and how state policies, legislation and laws have affected a way of life for his people. The article also illustrates, through narrative, the importance of re-­learning cultural practices.
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Voices For Change: Aboriginal Child Welfare in Alberta: A Special Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Del Graff]
Description
Looks at data gathered from children, youth, caregivers, and other stakeholders regarding involvement with the child welfare system and identifies issues that are contributing to the over-representation of Aboriginal young people in the system. Presents 8 recommendation to improve outcomes.
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Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

E-Books
Author/Creator
Katherine Fierlbeck
Lorian Hardcastle
Aimée Craft
Deborah McGregor
Jeffery Hewitt … [et al.]
Description
See: Chapter A-2 "COVID-19 and First Nations' Responses" by Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, and Jeffery Hewit. Chapter D-6 "Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and Its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Anne Levesque and Sophie Theriault.
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Walking Alone

Alternate Title
First Stories
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gerald Auger
Description
Short film tells story of rap group that turned into a gang. Duration: 6:46.
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Walking Through the Door of a Friendship Centre: Towards a New Understanding of 'Service Delivery' in Urban Indigenous Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Reports findings from interviews with people who have worked in and with centres in four Ontario communities: Timmins, North Bay, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie. Offers recommendations to support the centres' activities..
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Walking With Our Sisters

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Walking With Our Sisters
Description
Website chronicles the over 600 reported missing indigenous women in Canada and the United States through a commemorative art installation.
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Walpole Island First Nation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ross Smith
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 1, Special Issue on Sustainability, Summer, 2002, pp. 18-20
Description
Description the Walpole Island Heritage Centre, or Nin.da.waab.jig, which acts as the research arm of the First Nation. [One or more images have been omitted from this article due to copyright restrictions. These images are accessible in the print version of this journal.]
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Wanted: Moral Courage in Canadian Child Welfare

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 2, 2011, pp. 35-46
Description
Looks at a description of moral courage in child protection, the authors experiences in the child welfare field, and stories of the uplifting effects on children when moral courage is displayed.
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Warrior Economics: Financing the Poorest of the Native American Poor

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Warner Woodworth
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Policy Network, vol. 15, no. 2, Special International Indigenous Issue, Summer, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how microcredit has the potential to benefit tribal groups and build economic sustainability. Access through table of contents.
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Water Decade

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Baume
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, March 1982, pp. 31-35
Description
Reports on impact of poor water resources on the overall health of the Aboriginal population.
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The Way Forward: How Indigenous Philanthropy Can Change the World

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Evelyn Arce
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Describes effective grant-making strategies to support sustainable and culturally appropriate development projects, planned and implemented by and for Indigenous communities.
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A Way of Life Lost: The Legacy of Residential Schools

Alternate Title
Nation2Nation Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Description
Speaker talks about social life and customs of the Mik'maq and how residential schools interrupted their way of life. Duration: 51:20.
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"We Are Among the Poor, the Powerless, the Inexperienced and the Inarticulate": Clyde Warrior's Campaign for a "Greater Indian America"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul McKenzie-Jones
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 224-257
Description
Comments on the work done by activist, Clyde Warrior, noting that his focus was always what could be done by and for American Indians, rather than focusing on what was being done against American Indians.
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We Are Not Going Anywhere

Alternate Title
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 5
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Description
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fifth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay. In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities, and advocates for Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance. Duration: 53:59
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