Abuse

Educational Research Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2016.

Discusses project and provides assessment of research findings in order to help develop prevention and interventions methods.

Looks at intervention programs involving the Stól:lö Nation in British Columbia. Concludes with recommendations for prevention of behavioral problems.

Describes the Positive Reinforcement in Drug Education program implemented during the 1988-1989 school year.

Rev. Ben Arreak presents own perspective on deacon Rev. Eyeetsiak Simigak's behaviour; he was convicted of sexual interference with a child and three counts of sexual exploitation.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Report identifies prevention strategies that can be used to address issues of physical, sexual, financial, and psychological abuse.

Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.

Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.

Studied 105 women in three cities and found that most participants had PTSD and severe psychological symptoms.

Fifty-two percent of the 100 women surveyed identified as First Nations. Results are separated into First Nations and non-First Nations.

Concludes that strategies should be implemented that support family caring, strengthen school performance and tribal connections.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2008.

Guide should be read in conjunction with the Guidelines for Lawyers Acting in Cases Involving Claims of Aboriginal Residential School Abuse.

Examines the 1992 Hickey case exploring the relationship of race and gender within the context of the battered woman syndrome.

Argues that because Aboriginal women suffer from multiple oppressions there are even greater impacts on their health than that of Aboriginal men.

Author shows the play, Raised on My Mother's Love Alone (Drecí Cólo con el Amor de Mi Madre) stresses the re-emergence of complementary gender roles.

Comments on an uninvestigated and unprosecuted sexual assault and resulting death. Podcast and transcript. Duration: 12:51. Part 1 of 2.

An examination of the short story written in 1925 and how the author uses the medium to shine light on sexual violence perpetrated against Cherokee women and to advocate sovereignty by challenging the U.S. allotment process.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Toronto, 2008.

Discusses research conducted to test and develop protocols to prevent family violence. The research involved using a baseline questionnaire and then a follow up survey two years later.

Topics include general overview, defining and understanding the problem, complexities and considerations, and potential strategies. Also includes tools to enhance conversation and planning.

Article explores how the Indian Act was employed as a tool to eliminate Indigenous people as a legal and social fact.

Human Ecology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Discusses how Indigenous authors narrate personal experiences to document the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents.

Report provides a survey of programs and compensation packages established though out Canada to provide compensation to individuals who suffered from institutional child abuse.

Authors ask how the process can repair the human rights violations of Indigenous women and provides examples.

Looks at the need for programs designed to prevent domestic violence rather than interventions to break the cycle of abuse.

Author describes process of healing by questioning her identity and reflecting on her lived experiences of abuse, violence & racism.

Psychiatry Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2007.

[Psychology] Thesis (Ph.D)--Dalhousie University, 2011.

Study involved 207 students recruited from two secondary schools located in the Innu communities of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean and Côte Nord, Quebec.

Looks at issues of enslavement, exploitation and exportation of Native American women over the generations, from pre-colonial to contemporary times.

Book reviews of: Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women by Amber Dean. That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher. Entire section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 179.

Brief discussion of the history of the process, demands for reparations, and government responses; argues that general principle of justice demands that reparations must made.

Comments on the status of eight strategic directions. Collaborative initiative of the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC), Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA), The Independent First Nations (IFN) and the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO)

Conference aim was to examine the several forms of violence against women in all cultural and social contexts.

Related Material: APTN Investigates Report.

Reviews human rights issues around social and economic conditions, truth and reconciliation, missing women and girls, self-government participation and partnership, treaty negotiation and resource development. Provides recommendations. Advance unedited version.

Looks at policing, prosecution, corrections, and provides recommendations and literature review.

Investigated the financial operations of a safe house for sexually exploited youth located in Regina, Saskatchewan. Companion report by the Saskatchewan Children's Advocate: Investigative Report of the Oyate ataya WaKanyeja OwicaKiyapi Inc.

Looks at the impact of cultural specific behaviours and values which may have an effect on sexually abused Aboriginal Canadians and interfere with seeking services or accusing the perpetrator.