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Creation Stories: Creating Strong Families Through Our Stories

Creation Stories: Creating Strong Families Through Our Stories  Dr. Greg McKenna of Holland College (Applied Research), Neil Forbes, Education Superintendent Lennox Island (urban Aboriginal researcher), and Sharon O’Brien Director of the Mi’kmaq Family Resource Centre, have partnered on “Creation Stories” — a community-driven, early intervention, prenatal curriculum designed to empower and transform urban Aboriginal families’ […]

Culture of Fearfulness? Connecting Patterns of Vulnerability and Resilience in Young Urban Aboriginal Women’s Narratives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax)

Research Start-up Summary and Abstract: This project aims to draw focus to the structural and historical forces that serve to systemically disadvantage and threaten the wellbeing of urban Aboriginal women in a post-colonial society (Smith 2005; Anderson et al. 2008; Jacobs and Williams 2008). Too often, when a case of a missing or murdered Aboriginal […]

Aboriginal Nursing Students’ Capacity to Succeed in a Baccalaureate Nursing Program

Aboriginal Nursing Students’ Capacity to Succeed in a Baccalaureate Nursing Program: An Exploration of the Experiences of Aboriginal Nursing Students Who Have Primarily Resided in an Urban Environment Compared to Those Who Have Lived Primarily in an Aboriginal Community Research Start-up Summary and Abstract: The purpose of this research study is to understand the experiences […]

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