Framework

“We identify critical solution requirements and perform business mapping and modeling to analyze and identify potential efficiency gains. Our team also assists in a detailed analysis of vendor alternatives and performs a solution assessment and validation, followed by a current and future process design to identify and document gains in efficiencies and effectiveness.

“The learning models, framework and rationale outlined in this report support an alternative vision of Aboriginal learning and community well-being. The Holistic Lifelong Learning Models themselves provide First Nations, Inuit and Métis people with an opportunity to articulate and explore—and for non-Aboriginal Canadians to appreciate—the value of Aboriginal lifelong learning as an essential human endeavor that can benefit us all and enhance societal progress.”

"This thesis proposes an integrated framework for organizing information and subsequently acting as a diagnostic and predictive tool for those working in the area of community development with indigenous peoples, but with potential universal scope. Discussion within the thesis utilizes examples and information from work with indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The framework is composed of a hierarchy of community development (derived from Maslow's hierarchy of human needs) integrated within a value system, and a hierarchy of cultural influence.

"Three First Nation communities were selected within the Atlantic Region to become pilot communities in which to test the Model. Over 18 months, community plans (in both document and poster form) were developed:
Abegweit First Nation Community Plan; A Plan for Abegweit, a 40-minute documentary video, presents the community planning process in Abegweit First Nation; Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation Community Plan; Pictou Landing First Nation Community Plan.""

"The Workbook was developed to accompany the Model and is a guide to developing the specific products of each stage of the planning process."