Evidence of Outcome
According to a Statistics Canada document written in 2009, Aboriginal People were 40% more likely to be victimized than a non-aboriginal person. This number, and more shocking ones, can all be traced back to the abuse the children suffered long ago in residential schools. (29.)
This article documents the rise of the use and abuse of prescription drugs among young aboriginal people. As families were broken apart by children being forced into residential schools, many did not acquire parenting skills that most receive in a kind and nurturing childhood, leading to a higher risk of drug and alcohol use among youth. (30.)
This article documents the rise of the use and abuse of prescription drugs among young aboriginal people. As families were broken apart by children being forced into residential schools, many did not acquire parenting skills that most receive in a kind and nurturing childhood, leading to a higher risk of drug and alcohol use among youth. (30.)
The picture above displays the troubles that followed the Government's decision to stop funding for the Aboriginal healing fund. Without the financial support, many centres run by first nations were forced to shut down, closing many valuable places of support for residential school survivors and their families. Some employees took a 50% pay cut (31.) as healing services slowly ceased. The accompanying article can be found here, detailing the responses and effects the decision caused.
In July 2010, Maclean's published this article about an aboriginal mother that had lost 2 children to suicide. If this were to happen in a non-aboriginal town, it would become national news at the least -but in the town of Moosonee, where over 100 suicide attempts were made in a 6 month period, it was just another tragedy. The suicides were a loss that could have been prevented going to a family services centre paid for by the government. The one that serviced them served the entire town of 13000 people, and almost closed its doors in 2009 due to lack of government funding -far from sufficient for a place where 1 in 1000 committed suicide the year before (the Canadian average being 1 in 10000). (32.)
In July 2010, Maclean's published this article about an aboriginal mother that had lost 2 children to suicide. If this were to happen in a non-aboriginal town, it would become national news at the least -but in the town of Moosonee, where over 100 suicide attempts were made in a 6 month period, it was just another tragedy. The suicides were a loss that could have been prevented going to a family services centre paid for by the government. The one that serviced them served the entire town of 13000 people, and almost closed its doors in 2009 due to lack of government funding -far from sufficient for a place where 1 in 1000 committed suicide the year before (the Canadian average being 1 in 10000). (32.)