“If you are interested in making a difference in the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities, consider NETC’s Disability Support Worker Program. This 3-Semester program of study you will be provided with the knowledge and skills required to support people with developmental disabilities to live in dignity, participate and share in all aspects of life. Students will learn strategies for providing support in ways that are respectful of the dignity and individuality of each person with whom they work.”
“Making diabetes education available to community members is essential to the wellbeing of your community. As a Diabetes Worker, part of your job is to increase the knowledge of other health professionals and providers in the community who are involved with the care of people with diabetes, ensuring continuity and quality of diabetes care for the client.”
“This program is designed to provide participants with the skills and knowledge they need to effectively manage health care service, and act as a community health representative and advocate.”
“Aboriginal women are “leading the way in labour markets,” according to a recent Toronto-Dominion Bank paper that finds they have seen the “largest bounce back” in employment since the 2008-2009 recession, compared with aboriginal men and the non-aboriginal population.”
“The connection between heritage language instruction and self-esteem was investigated. Participants were Inuit, White, and mixed-heritage (Inuit-White) children living in a subarctic community. Testing occurred before and after their 1st year in a heritage language or a 2nd language program. Children from all 3 groups who were educated in their heritage language showed a substantial increase in their personal self-esteem, whereas Inuit and mixed-heritage children educated in a 2nd language did not.”
“The purpose of this study was to determine how school and family connectedness were associated with delinquent and health promoting behaviors, and whether school attendance was associated with delinquency and health status for First Nations youth.”
“This book acknowledges the significance of indigenous perspectives on research and attempts to account for how, and why, such perspectives may have developed.”
“Mi'gmaq, an Algonkian language of northeastern North America, is one of nearly 50 surviving Indigenous languages in Canada that are usually not considered to be viable into the next century. Only Inuktitut, Cree, and Ojibwe presently have enough younger speakers to provide a critical mass for long-term survival. In one Mi'gmaq community, however, a new way of passing on the language to adults who do not already speak it is rekindling new hope for the language.
