Reports

Final Report of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2006.
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation was created in 1998 with a mission to encourage and support Aboriginal people in building and reinforcing sustainable healing processes. In particular, these processes were developed in order to address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in the residential school system, including intergenerational impacts. Since its inception, an increasing number of Aboriginal people have designed,delivered and participated in healing programs. Healing initiatives are taking place in every region of the country, in cities and small towns, on reserves and in rural, remote and isolated communities.
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This volume is the third in a series of final reports being published by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.Volume I—A Healing Journey: Reclaiming Wellness traces the Aboriginal healing movement and the AHF’s role within the wider movement. Volume II—Measuring Progress: Program Evaluation synthesizes the voluminous data collected through the evaluation process and the resulting recommendations for furtheraction. The purpose of Volume III is to share information about healing programs, practices andinterventions that are working well in Aboriginal communities. Target audiences include healing teams,frontline workers and program planners in Aboriginal communities across the country
Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity.
The final volume in a series published by the AHF as it prepared to close its doors, this volume is the AHF's final word in terms of its research agenda.
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Edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné. Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series, 2011

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Featured articles

Matheson, K., Bombay, A., Dixon, K., & Anisman, H. (2020). Intergenerational communication regarding Indian Residential Schools: Implications for cultural identity, perceived discrimination, and depressive symptoms. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(2), 304–320.

McQuaid, R. (2017). Suicide Ideation and Attempts among First Nations Peoples Living On-Reserve in Canada: The Intergenerational and Cumulative Effects of Indian Residential Schools. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry : Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie., 62(6), 422–430.

Nasreen, S., Brar, R., Brar, S., Maltby, A., & Wilk, P. (2018). Are Indigenous determinants of health associated with self-reported health professional-diagnosed anxiety disorders among Canadian First Nations adults?: Findings from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples survey. Community Mental Health Journal, 54(4), 460-468.

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Stories

To Hear the Truth: Raising Awareness of the Residential School System in Canada
The students in the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology: School and Youth Concentration in Vancouver wanted to raise awareness about the residential school system in Canada and what Adler University’s future counsellors can do to become more culturally competent. With the help of professors and staff, they put together a public screening of the film We Were Children. In addition, Gertie Pierre, an Elder and survivor of residential schooling, and Wesley Scott, a Resolution Health Support Worker for the Indian Residential Schools Survivors Society, spoke at the event about the impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal Canadians.

Articles

Articles about Cultural Safety and Cultural Competency
Citations for articles available either in Adler University's databases; online; or by interlibrary loan.

Online reference sources

The Canadian Encyclopedia. Search for "Residential Schools in Canada".

"Orange Shirt Day." Wikipedia, 6 September 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Shirt_Day.

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