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Title: UVic Faculty of Human


1
UVic Faculty of Human Social Development
  • Good things start here
  • Adams Lake RIS
  • Feb 17th/2009
  • Roger John
  • Indigenous Advisor

2
Schools Programs in the Faculty of Human
Social Development
  • School of Child Youth Care
  • School of Health Information Science
  • School of Public Administration
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Social Work
  • Indigenous Governance Program
  • Masters in Studies in Policies and Practice
  • Centre for Non-Profit Management
  • Masters in Dispute Resolution

3
Good things start here
  • Highest number of Indigenous students and
    Indigenous faculty
  • First task force for First Peoples House emerged
    out of the Deans Office of HSD
  • Indigenous Students Recognition Ceremony
    organized by Indigenous Advisors office and
    sponsored by Deans office 1998-2008
  • SAGE Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Education
  • Indigenous Principles and Protocols for Research
    (IGOV)

4
Indigenous Faculty Instructors
  • Taiaiake Alfred, Mohawk (IGOV)
  • Jeff Corntassel, Cherokee (IGOV)
  • Waziyatawin, Wahpetunwan Dakota (IGOV)
  • Jeanine Carriere, Métis (SOCW)
  • Cathy Richardson, Métis (SOCW)
  • Robina Thomas, Lyackson (SOCW)
  • Jacquie Green, Haisla (SOCW)

5
Indigenous Faculty Instructors (contd)
  • Todd Ormiston, N.Tutchone Tlingit (SOCW)
  • Sandrina de Finney, Malecite (CHIL)
  • Shanne McCaffrey, Métis (CHIL)
  • Sylvie Cottell, Métis (CHIL)

6
Indigenous Programming
  • First Nations Specialization in Social Work
  • Indigenous Governance Program
  • Learning Circles in Aboriginal Nursing
  • Early Childhood Development Intercultural
    Partnerships Program (CHIL)
  • CELÁNEN A Journal of Indigenous Governance
  • Indigenous MSW Pilot Program underway

7
More Indig. Programming
  • Virtual Learning Lodge to help bring Uvic to
    the community CHIL and INAF
  • To support distance and on-campus learners

8
Indigenous Research Projects
  • Sandrina De Finney (CHIL)- NONG SILA Working from
    Community Knowledge Developing an Urban
    Aboriginal Adoptions Council
  • A community-based research study on urban
    Aboriginal adoptions in Victoria, British
    Columbia. Entitled NONG SILA, a Lekwungen word
    meaning many grandparents, many grandchildren,
    the study responded to the urgent need for
    building culturally-appropriate capacity in the
    Aboriginal adoptions sector in British Columbia.

9
Adolescent Girls Mentorship Study
  • Bannister, Elizabeth (NURS) The goal of this
    community-based study was to understand
    adolescent girls dating health issues and to
    facilitate positive change in their health risk
    behaviours.
  • Partners University of Victoria School District
    61 Victoria Youth Clinic Stuate Lelum
    Secondary School, and First Nations and Inuit
    Branch of Health Canada.
  • 40 adolescent girls, ages 15-16, from three local
    secondary schools (including one designated as an
    alternative school), a local youth health clinic,
    and a rural First Nations secondary school. We
    had little difficulty accessing participants for
    the study and ascertained from this that staff
    and girls at each site placed a high value on
    adolescent girls dating related health concerns
    and desired to learn more of such concerns.

10
Indigenous Child Welfare Research Project
  • Emerged from a meeting in Feb 2008
  • Principal Investigator, Leslie Brown
  • Project Coordinator, Jacquie Green
  • The vision the creation and maintenance of a
    research network conduct child welfare research
    that would be relevant to our distinct
    communities and peoples. in British Columbia.
  • For more information contact Jacquie Green
  • Website Launch Feb 13th/2008
  • www.uvic.ca/icwr

11
Projects, Theses Dissertations
  • Child Youth Care
  • Mary BURGARETTA (2007) Rising from the ashes
    Empowering Aboriginal Women
  • Onowa MCIVOR (2005) Building the Nests
    Indigenous Language Revitalization in BC First
    Nations Using Early Childhood Immersion Programs
  • Judith BOULTER (2001) Unlearning Colonialism An
    Aboriginal Experience in Education as the
    Practice of Freedom.
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Leigh Ogston Milroy (2002), Aboriginal
    Policy-making and Dispute Resolution Processes A
    history of the concept of a tribunal for the
    adjudication of specific land claims in Canada
  • Dale Hunt (2005), We Are All Different, Still
    Living Under The Same Culture A Kwakwaka'wakw
    Perspective on Dispute Resolution (Dale Hunt,
    2005)
  • Patrick Richmond (2007), A Serpentine Effect The
    Impact of Legal Decisions on Aboriginal Rights
    and Title on the Conduct of Treaty Negotiations
    in British Columbia (Patrick Richmond, 2007)
  • Indigenous Governance Program
  • Nicholas CLAXTON (2003) - The Douglas Treaty and
    WSÁNEC traditional fisheries A model for Saanich
    Peoples Governance
  • Bradley YOUNG (2005) - A Modern Day Warrior
    Lodge A Vision for the Northern Plains
    Indigenous Leadership Institute
  • Lyana PATRICK (2004) - Storytelling in the Fourth
    World Explorations in Meaning of Place and
    Tlaamin Resistance to Dispossession

12
Projects, Theses and Dissertations
  • Public Administration
  • Leslie BROWN, Administrative work in Aboriginal
    governments (1996)
  • Simrita JOHAL (2001), First Nations
    self-administered police forces The changing
    nature of the administration of justice
  • Todd ORMISTON (2002), Aboriginal Child Family
    Services Agencies A First Nations Analysis of
    Delegated Services
  • Jacquie GREEN, (2000), First Nations Program
    Strategy School of Social Work
  • NURS
  • Heidi PETRAK (2008), Aboriginal nursing students
    experiences in a nursing program
  • SOCW
  • Leona DANIELS (2006), Grannies, Aunties, Mothers
    and Daughters, All the Skeletons are out A Story
    of Truth and Healing
  • Maggie KOVACHS (2007), Searching for Arrowheads
    An Inquiry into Approaches to Indigenous Research
    using Tribal Methodology with a Nêhiýaw
    Kiskêýihtamowin Worldview
  • Robina THOMAS (2000), Storytelling in the Spirit
    of Wise Woman Experiences of Kuper Island
    Residential School

13
For More Information
  • http//www.hsd.uvic.ca/students/IndigenousStudentA
    dvisor.php.
  • Copy of my presentation and a bibliography will
    be provided.
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