First Nations Child and Family Services and Indigenous Knowledge as a Framework for Research, Policy and Practice

This paper provides an overview of the exciting national developments in First Nations child and family service delivery in Canada with a focus on progressive research, policy and practice. Examples of how traditional concepts of interdependence and the holistic worldview inform program design and delivery within First Nations communities are reviewed. In addition, the paper introduces the mandate, strategic directions and services of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. This national organization brings together the 105 First Nations Child and Family Service Agencies in Canada to share best practices, develop professional development programs and conduct research. Emerging policy and research programs within the society are highlighted. FNCFCS, with the generous support of the Voluntary Sector Initiative, will be developing resources and programs to foster effective policy making and program design between First Nations child and family service programs, the public, private and voluntary sectors. These programs are intended to enhance interdisciplinary cooperation and practice in order to meet the needs of First Nations children, families and communities. Special emphasis is also be placed on the First Nations research agenda and the associated steps to increase research capacity within First Nations communities through the Health Canada Child Welfare Centre of Excellence First Nations Research Site in Winnipeg Manitoba

Experimental investigation of outdoor propagation of finite-amplitude noise

The outdoor propagation of finite amplitude acoustic waves was investigated using a conventional electroacoustic transmitter which was mounted on the ground and pointed upward in order to avoid ground reflection effects. The propagation path was parallel to a radio tower 85 m tall, whose elevator carried the receiving microphone. The observations and conclusions are as follows: (1) At the higher source levels nonlinear propagation distortion caused a strong generation of high frequency noise over the propagation path. For example, at 70 m for a frequency 2-3 octaves above the source noise band, the measured noise was up to 30 dB higher than the linear theory prediction. (2) The generation occurred in both the nearfield and the farfield of the transmitter. (3) At no measurement point was small-signal behavior established for the high requency noise. Calculations support the contention that the nonlinearity generated high frequency noise never becomes small-signal in its behavior, regardless of distance. (4) When measured spectra are scaled in frequency and level to make them comparable with spectra of actual jet noise, they are found to be well within the jet noise range. It is therefore entirely possible that nonlinear distortion affects jet noise

Aboriginal Child Welfare

As the relationships between Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and the state undergo changes, the issue of Child Welfare is in the foreground; for it is around the well being, education and care of Aboriginal children that much of the painful historical relationship between First Nations and Canadian government has been played out. In this paper we consider the major issues in Canadian Aboriginal child welfare, drawing upon an extensive review and synthesis of current theory and research. Although there is an abundance of material available concerning Aboriginal child welfare, much of it exists outside mainstream academic child welfare literature. Some of the salient work on Aboriginal child welfare is contained in the justice literature and much is contained in evaluation reports, operational reviews, submissions to government bodies and in oral stories and testimony. Our goal has been to cull these sources in order to present a coherent understanding of Aboriginal child welfare issues that encompasses history, theoretical analysis, politics, visions, realities, education, evaluation and aspirations

Early History Of ISNA

The International Symposia on Nonlinear Acoustics, now referred to as ISNA, have convened regularly since 1968, bringing together scientists and engineers to report and discuss the latest developments in this branch of nonlinear physics. The fact that this series of symposia is still going strong after more than four decades is testimony that nonlinear acoustics has established itself as a distinct, important, and vibrant field of research. In this paper we take a look back at the early years of ISNA to recall how it all began and trace the evolution of the symposia into their current form.Applied Research Laboratorie

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Trevor Blackstock is a third year pre-medical student majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry and psychology. He is a member of AED, Tri-Beta, KLPI, and an ambassador for the School of Biological Sciences. He enjoys viewing art in various forms from different cultures and the interesting ideas that are presented about overstated topics

Lee Oser. The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien and the Romance of History

In The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History, Lee Oser, a professor of literature at Holy Cross College, follows Chesterton\u27s lead in taking on the heretics, decadents, and aesthetes within the postmodernist critical establishment, extolling Chesterton, Eliot, and Tolkien as defenders of reason and romance and vilifying influential late twentieth-century critics such as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, whose alleged attacks on the liberal humanist tradition Oser sees as having eroded not only literary scholarship but indeed the very underpinnings of democratic society. In his preface Oser asserts, Without scruple or debate, our schools condone the blindest intellectual prejudice of the twentieth century, and maybe the key to its horrors, the idea that religion is the enemy of art and culture (ix). But Chesterton, Eliot, and Tolkien, having written during a period when the institutional arrangements of our own time were visible, Oser observes, give us the chance for renewal and renaissance .... They were embattled but not wholly isolated figures, major writers in English who understood their art as an effort to keep the sacred wellsprings of culture open (x). Oser-like Chesterton: a novelist, apologist, and critic combined-clearly understands his own art similarly, and this book as his own effort to keep these wellsprings open

David Finkelstein. The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era

This book combines and expands on three articles previously published independently in journals of textual criticism. Though the added material on the rise and decline of the House of Blackwood from 1804 to 1912 will interest primarily readers concerned with the history of Blackwood\u27s, the three core chapters presenting case studies of the relations of the firm with particular authors-John Hanning Speke, Charles Reade, and Margaret Oliphant-provide valuable insights into the ways in which Victorian editors and authors manipulated one another for both commercial and ideological ends

Asynchronous: Coming to the Fire: Tinder, Kindling and Sparks

Coming to the Fire: Tinder, Kindling, and Sparks We all come from different backgrounds~ in time immemorial, our nations regarded this as coming from different fires to denote not only the geographical location but also the nations\u27 culture, language, traditions and practices. Thus, when we met as a class, to learn about Indigenous health through a virtual teaching and learning environment, we gathered, around a common fire. ‘Coming to a fire is used as a metaphor to acknowledge each other and respect each of our backgrounds to learn, share and gather. My metaphor for teaching and learning often centers around being in the outdoors-the land, waters, trees, Indigenous culture, and the importance of campfires. Campfires are the root of sharing, learning, feasting, storytelling and ceremonies. Fire represents the heat generated through sharing in a circle that is supportive, and participants feel safe to explore and learn about topics to improve their understanding of their role in working in partnership with communities. Participants will learn about the lessons I learnt as a Gitxsan, associate teaching professor in the delivery of the course online and that the greatest learning, understanding and appreciation occurs through engaging with humility and the extending of invitations to others to come to the fire. If the above link does not work, please use this link: https://admin.video.ubc.ca/html5/html5lib/v2.82.2/mwEmbedFrame.php/p/170/uiconf_id/23451101/entry_id/0_jhvfcg8c?wid=_170&iframeembed=true&playerId=kaltura_player&entry_id=0_jhvfcg8c&flashvars%5blocalizationCode%5d=en&flashvars%5bleadWithHTML5%5d=true&flashvars%5bsideBarContainer.plugin%5d=true&flashvars%5bsideBarContainer.position%5d=left&flashvars%5bsideBarContainer.clickToClose%5d=true&flashvars%5bchapters.plugin%5d=true&flashvars%5bchapters.layout%5d=vertical&flashvars%5bchapters.thumbnailRotator%5d=false&flashvars%5bstreamSelector.plugin%5d=true&flashvars%5bEmbedPlayer.SpinnerTarget%5d=videoHolder&flashvars%5bdualScreen.plugin%5d=true&flashvars%5bhotspots.plugin%5d=1&flashvars%5bKaltura.addCrossoriginToIframe%5d=true&&wid=0_pqwpvup