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THE STEERING COMMITTEE Native Child & Family Services Chiefs of Ontario Ottawa Inuit Children Centre Native Women’s Centre of Hamilton Métis Nation of Ontario Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) Weechi-it-te-win Family Services Tikinagan Child & Family Services Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC) WRITER Catalyst Research and Communications Charlene Avalos Lillian Baibomcowai-Dell Karen Baker Anderson Linda Ense Shelley Gonneville Betty Kennedy Leona McGinnis Thelma Morris Kathy Sky Terry Swan Joan Riggs Funding provided by the Government of Ontario 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION / 09 A. Worldviews Coming Together / 10 B. How the Practice Guide Came into Existence / 12 C. The Principles that Shaped this Practice Guide / 13 D. Understanding the Use and Impact of Language / 15 1 > KEY CONCEPTS THAT SHAPED THE PRACTICE GUIDE / 17 A. It is All About Relationships / 18 B. The Harmony Circles / 19 C. Experiences of Aboriginal Families and Child Welfare / 21 D. Using a Social-Determinants Framework / 24 E. The Scope of the Issue of Family Violence for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Families / 28 F. The Importance of Identity / 33 G. Attachment / 34 H. Resiliency / 35 I. Building on the Current Child Welfare System in Ontario / 36 2 > FIRST NATIONS, INUIT AND MÉTIS PEOPLE IN ONTARIO / 43 A. Aboriginal Peoples in Ontario / 46 B. First Nations People / 47 C. The Inuit / 51 D. Métis Peoples / 52 E. A Historical Context for Aboriginal Peoples in Ontario / 54 F. Intergenerational Trauma / 60 G. Aboriginal Families and Child Welfare / 61 H. A Healing Process / 62 3 > UNDERSTANDING CHILD WELFARE AND FAMILY VIOLENCE FROM A DIFFERENT WORLDVIEW / 67 A. First Nations, Inuit and Métis Concepts of Family and Community / 68 B. Teachings that Support the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Family / 70 C. Men’s and Women’s Roles and Responsibilities in the Family and in the Community / 75 D. Family Violence in First Nations, Inuit and Métis Communities / 78 E. Mainstream Service Models / 78 F. First Nations, Inuit and Métis Models for Addressing Family Violence / 80 7
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status as a result of marrying non-
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MILLENNIUM SCOOP In her report, Pro
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G. ABORIGINAL FAMILIES AND CHILD WE
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. . . if we go back to the origi
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Effectiveness of Healing Activities
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3 > UNDERSTANDING CHILD WELFARE AND
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and linguistic development, is a de
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The Medicine Wheel is an ancient sy
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Life Cycle Wheel training and teach
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1. Piliriqatigiinngniq — worki
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Traditionally, it was the women who
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The OACAS Practice Guide, Critical
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THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO END VIOL
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2. In order for development to occu
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Circles and involves the community
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A key tool that is often used to he
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Four Worlds International Institute
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A. HOW ABORIGINAL FAMILIES DESCRIBE
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Indigenous knowledge, including how
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“I felt judged by the workers. I
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The focus group participants gave t
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“When a CAS protection worker cam
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Offer as many interventions as poss
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The model below shows elements invo
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F. PRACTICE: ENGAGE OTHERS TO SUPPO
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What are the strengths of this fami
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The focus group participants made t
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“CAS was called in because the fa
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3. Focus group participants express
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Some of the training provided to re
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SOURCES Ajunnginiq Centre, National
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A. WHAT DOES “ABORIGINAL COMMUNIT
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Organizational change within CAS in
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ESTABLISH A COMMITTEE OF CHILD WELF
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“Our organization has agreements
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AHWS Healing Continuum Aboriginal H
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SOURCES Aboriginal Healing and Well
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A. WHAT DOES ADVOCACY MEAN Child we
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community initiatives, conducted re
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To download a copy of Children Firs
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3. What interventions are offered t
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and ongoing needs with the resource
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A. A PROCESS OF RECONCILIATION In 1
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S O U R C E S Blackstock, C., Cross
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ONTARIO ABORIGINAL ORGANIZATIONS Ch
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APPENDIX A GLOSSARY Unless specific
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emaining within Canada. All 10 prem
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APPENDIX B SAFETY PLANNING FOR WOME
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APPENDIX C SAFETY PLANNING FOR THE
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flag situations arise from rigid ex
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Castellano, M.B., Archibald, L., &
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Hudson, P. & McKenzie, B. (2003). E
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Ontario Association of Children’s
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Teillet, J. (2010). Métis law in C
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