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Building community support for the prevention of youth suicide and personal injury: Response to the youth bridging project survey

Publication type: 
Research Paper / Project Report
Author(s): 
Cochrane, Nancy; Ogen, Karen; Cochrane, Krysta; Caillier, Lisa
Agency: 
Centre for Native Policy and Research (CNPR)
Sponsor: 
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research for the Aboriginal Health Research Network
Date: 
2006-01
Pages: 
25
Collections: 
Centre for Native Policy and Research
Summary: 
Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS) has been building research capacity in their eleven communities in northern B.C. during the past decade. The Carrier Sekani First Nation peoples are situated northeast of Prince George, B.C. on a rural and remote reserve lands. The purpose of the Youth Bridging Survey Project was to address the issues that Aboriginal youth face in their communities, such as: lack of communication skills, self-awareness, home management, budgeting, low level of education, unemployment and training. The intention was to assist youth participants to become aware of their strengths and needs, and then address issues of career, education and training to aspire their future goals (CSFS, 2002).
Keywords: 
Aboriginal; Centre for Native Policy and Research; Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS); youth; prevention of youth suicide and personal injury; building community support; Youth Bridging Survey Project

Fast Facts: To help one another: The story of Ma Mawi

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Author(s): 
Silver, Jim
Agency: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-MB
Sponsor: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba
Date: 
2004-06-25
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Centre for Native Policy and Research
Summary: 
The story of an Aboriginal organization, Ma Mawi, that at one point become a relatively big, bureaucratic organization which was proving to be unhelpful to the Aboriginal community, began remaining itself and then reconstructing itself on the basis of what its constituents said they wanted. Ma Mawi sought to re-connect with the urban Aboriginal community, and to work with the community to build on the existing strengths (e.g. culture) and to work to build the capacity of the community to solve its own problems instead of the organization trying to "fix" them.
Keywords: 
Aboriginal; community-based; culture; Aboriginal organizations; bureaucracy; urban; Winnipeg; Manitoba; inner city; social services

Fast Facts: Aboriginal Education for Winnipeg's Future

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Author(s): 
Silver, Jim; Millet, Kathy
Agency: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-MB
Sponsor: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba
Date: 
2003-06-23
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Centre for Native Policy and Research
Summary: 
The 2001 Consensus reveals that Winnipeg has the largest urban Aboriginal population in Canada. It is expected that a decade from now, at lease one in five people reaching working age in Manitoba will be Aboriginal. Given this, Aboriginal education is central to Winnipeg's future and from what we know Aboriginal students are less likely than non-Aboriginal students to graduate from high school. This article investigates the educational circumstances of Aboriginal students in Winnipeg inner city high schools through interviews and held focus groups with more than 130 Aboriginal people- high school students, school-leavers, adults, and some teachers. The findings show that three things need to change; 1) more Aboriginal teachers 2) more Aboriginal content in the curriculum and 3) racism in the schools.
Keywords: 
education; 'dropout'; racism; curriculum; Aboriginal teachers; Winnipeg; Manitoba; Aboriginal; students; school; high school; school leavers

The use of traditional knowledge in species assessment: a case study of northern Canada wolverine

Publication type: 
Position Paper
Author(s): 
Cardinal, Nathan
Agency: 
Centre for Native Policy and Research (CNPR)
Pages: 
4
Collections: 
Centre for Native Policy and Research
Summary: 
As human society has changed and evolved, our interaction with the surrounding landscape has also changed, compounded by rapid technological development and an ever-increasing demand for natural resources. While some of these interactions have led to substantial social and economic gains, they have also resulted in significant deleterious impacts on the environment, which consequently affect all segments of human society and economy. Furthermore, contemporary methods of understanding and resolving such impacts are insufficient. The active involvement of Aboriginal people and their knowledge in the assessment process will increase the acceptability of decisions resulting from assessments at a local level.
Keywords: 
Aboriginal; traditional knowledge; wolverine; species assessment

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