Family Violence Initiative

COMPENDIUM OF PROMISING PRACTICES TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AND INCREASE SAFETY OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN IN CANADA

¹ http://www.nwac.ca/sites/default/files/reports/2010_NWAC_SIS_Report_EN.pdf
² Statistics Canada – Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Juristat. Victimization and offending among the Aboriginal population in Canada. Catalogue no. 85-002-XIE, Vol. 26, no. 3
³ Promising practices are referred as those practices and programs that may not have undergone full scale evaluation.
⁴ There were approximately 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children forced to attend residential schools over a period of 100 years (CBC News, 2010). According to Blackstock and Trocmè (2005), there are estimates that three times as many Aboriginal children have gone through the child welfare system since the 1960s than attended residential schools.