Volume 1, May 1997: Inaugural Edition of Native Social Work Journal
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Item "Bringing home Payahtakenemowin (Peace of Mind): Creating self-governing community services"(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) Timpson, Joyce; Semple, DouglasThe decade from 1985 to 1997 saw rapid social and economic change in the 27 remote hunting and trapping First Nations of Northwestern Ontario. The area also saw an eightfold increase in the suicide rate despite the introduction of a multi-million dollar system of outside helping services. By assuming control of health services, the First Nations have increased the ability to address health and social service problems locally.Item "Aboriginal communities and Social Science research: Voyeurism in transition"(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) Gilchrist, LauriExamination of the relationship of research to Aboriginal peoples reveals a curious paradox. Volumes of research have generated data and theory on Aboriginal people in Canada, and yet there is little research which Aboriginal peoples have been able to determine themselves.Item "Mino-Yaa-Daa: An urban community-based approach"(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) Baskin, CyndyGabriel Dumont Non-Profit Homes (Metro Toronto) Inc. includes a centralized 80 unit apartment complex and 7 townhouses on a separate site. Located in Scarborough, Ontario all units have 3 or 4 bedrooms. Incorporated in 1985 and opened in 1986, the complex is financially sponsored by the Canada Mortage and Housing Corporation. Geared to income housing is offered on a monthly rent-geared-to-income basis. The majority of families in the complex are headed by single mothers.Item "Kinship care: A community alternative to foster care"(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) Carriere-Laboucane, JeannineI realized the importance of kinship connection and family preservation the first time I met one of my birth family members at age twelve. As an adopted child, I often felt I was living in a borrowed state of being. In someone else's family, borrowing someone else's name and culture. Meeting my birth family and recognizing my connection to the Metis community gave me a sense of belonging for the first time in my life.Item "Northern student education initiative"(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) German, Nona R.The Northwest Territories encompasses a third of Canada's land mass. In 1999, the one territory will become two. Separating the arctic from the subarctic, the division will approximately follow the tree line, which runs diagonally across the Northwest Territories from the northwest to the southeast. The Nunavut territory will provide a self-governed homeland for the Inuit in the eastern arctic. The western territory will encompass the traditional homeland of the Inuvialuit, the Dene and Metis (Canada's Northwest Territories 1996 Explorer's Guide). In the Northwest Territories, where Native people are the majority, Aboriginal self-government is a reality.Item "Cross-addictions of gambling, alcohol and drugs in Aboriginal communities"(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) Hodgson, MaggieOver the past twenty years, Native Canadians or Aboriginal people have enjoyed considerable progress in the development of sobriety. That is the good news. The bad news is that there has not been similar success in the area of other addictions, particularly gambling. Statistics exist which reveal the negative effects of gambling on Native people.Item "Mooka'Am (A new dawn)"(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) Avalos, Charlene; Arger, Lizz; Levesque, Elaine; Pike, RobertaA treatment approach which weaves contemporary forms of Social Work with traditional ways of healing for Aboriginal people in Toronto.Item Volume 1, May 1997(School of Native Human Services, 1997-05) School of Native Human Services