Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Resistance and Resurgence: Decolonization in a Time of “Reconciliation”
Panelists in this webinar discuss how abolishing white supremacy means understanding how it plays out in every institution including the child welfare system, the criminal justice system, the housing system, income inequities, access to healthcare, education and employment, on and off reserves.
Illuminating Service Experience: A Descriptive Analysis of Injury and Death Reports for First Nations Children and Youth in B.C., 2015 to 2017
This report is the result of an aggregate review that looked at injury and death data over a three-year period. It focuses on injuries and deaths reported for children and youth identified by MCFD as First Nations, and uses injuries and deaths reported for non-Indigenous children and youth as a comparison group.
A Culturally Relevant Gender-Based Analysis (CRGBA) Starter Kit: Introduction, Incorporation, and Illustrations of Use
Culturally relevant gender-based analysis (CRGBA) considers the historical and current issues faced by Indigenous women, including the impacts that colonization and intergenerational trauma have caused. When policy work lacks a CRGBA, there is a risk of perpetuating further marginalization, oppression, and/or violence against Indigenous women.
Learning Through Culture to Promote Healthy Youth Relationships
A tipsheet that emphasizes Indigenous cultural-affirmation in the promotion of healthy youth relationships and violence prevention programs.
Knowing Your Rights Toolkit: Sexual and Reproductive Health
This toolkit was developed in response to the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women and the call for Indigenous-specific services and supports, including Indigenous-led education on patient rights and responsibilities and informed consent.
Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
This report addresses the situation of violence against Métis women and girls in Canada. Métis women face a unique form of marginalization and discrimination; first, as Indigenous peoples; second, as Métis—the “invisible” among Aboriginal people; and third, as women.
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open weaves an intricately complex, while at the same time very simple, story of a chance encounter between two Indigenous women with drastically different lived experience, navigating the aftermath of domestic abuse.
Pathways in a Forest Indigenous Guidance on Prevention-Based Child Welfare
Pathways in a Forest: Indigenous Guidance on Prevention-based Child Welfare centers the voices of 64 caregivers and highlights efforts by Indigenous families, communities, and nations to revitalize Indigenous approaches to child welfare, develop comprehensive community-based supports, and fight for self-determination.