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Welcome to the latest edition of the Reaching Families Project Aboriginal Resources Newsletter. Notices of aboriginal family resources relating to mental health can be sent to onlinesupport@bcss.org so we can help spread the word.

More aboriginal family specific resources are available at www.aboriginal.bcss.org and http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/search/node/aboriginal The Reaching Families Project is funded by BC Mental Health and Addictions Services as part of the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information.                                                   

Visions Journal Aboriginal People Edition

This month's featured resource is the Aboriginal edition of Visions Journal, which is another publication of BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information.  The following is the introduction and table and contents from this edition. If you click on the links you can read the articles that interest you.

Vol. 5, No. 1 (Summer 2008) | 32 pages | table of contents | pdf (1.9 Mb)

This issue of Visions stirs new ground like no other issue has. If you identify yourself as Aboriginal, First Nation, Inuit or Metis, you will likely find much that resonates with you. If you don't indentify yourself that way, you will still learn a lot from this issue about the role of identity, culture, empowerment and community. Our amazing contributors have weaved mental well-being and wellness into a complex tapestry with spiritual, phsycial and social well-being, as well as the historical unjustices and current realities faced by many Aboriginal people including family violence and abuse, child neglect, trauma, discrimination, poverty, and homelessness.

Background

• Editor's Message (Sarah Hamid-Balma)

• Cultural Pathways for Decolonization [guest editorial] (Bill Mussell)

• Aboriginal Mental Health — The Statistical Reality (Saman Khan)

• Charting the Future of Native Mental Health in Canada (Terry Adler)

• Research Summary: Aboriginal Peoples' Experiences of Mental Health and Addictions Care (Victoria Smye)

• Spirit Beads, Resilience and Residential School (Madeleine Dion Stout)

Experiences and Perspectives

• Everything is Related— Unemployment, mental health and addictions (Andy Sibbald)

• Earl Joe's Story (Donna Panitow)

• "Cowboy Dave"— Just one story from the Cariboo streets (Wayne Lucier)

• Banishing the Shame From My Life (Ron Nunn)

• Once Upon a Time in the Big City (Kristine Sinclair)

Alternatives and Approaches

• Harm Reuction and Abstinence— More Alike Than Different? (Colleen Dell)

• Aboriginal Ethics Guide Ethical Research (Marlene Castellano)

• Seeking Health Care at Emergency Departments—Access issues affecting Aboriginal people (Annette Browne)

• Canada's Indian Residential School System— Historical Trauma and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (Wayne Spear)

Regional Programs

• Unprecedented Collaboration— Four nations in Northern BC (Sandra Olson)

• Surviving the Fall— DVD (Marie Nightingale)

• Toward Blending the Best of Two Worlds— The Fraser Region Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental Health Teams (Janit Doyle and Virge Silveria)

Resources

• Resources 

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