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Fall 2007 / Volume #127 - First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children and Youth: TIME TO ACT
Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitksan First Nation, has worked in the field of child and family services for over 20 years. She is currently the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and Co Convenor for the Sub Group for the Rights of Indigenous Children and Youth.
David Budd is a Youth Cultural Worker at Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Peter Dinsdale is the Executive Director of the National Association of Friendship Centres.
Okalik Eegeesiak is the Director of the Socio-Economic Development Department of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
Dr. Valerie Gideon is the Senior Director of the Assembly of First Nations’ Health and Social Secretariat.
Jane Gray works with Assembly of First Nations as the National Project Manager of the First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey (RHS).
Charles W. (Charlie) Hill from Six Nations is the Executive Director of the National Aboriginal Housing Association (NAHA).
Garry Jobin, a Cree, is the Coordinator of Bladerunners in Vancouver, a program that started in 1994 to match construction labour needs with disadvantaged, street-involved youth, about 95% of whom are aboriginal and 28% female. Within two years, it was formally supported by the BC government and has a solid track record of success.
Alastair MacPhee is a consultant to the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.
Dr. Nathan Matthew is a professional educator, long-time Chairman of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council and is the British Columbia First Nations Representative on the Education Advisory Council to the Minister of Education. In 1987 he began directing and instructing a national course at the University of British Columbia for Principals of First Nation Schools.
Mary Jane Norris is an Aboriginal demographer and Senior Research Manager with the Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate at the federal department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
Dr. Catherine (Cathy) Richardson has a PhD in Child and Youth Care. She is a counsellor and family therapist as well as an Aboriginal child welfare advocate. Dr. Richardson has conducted a research study on Métis Identity Creation and Resistance to Colonization and Mistreatment. She has worked as an aboriginal early Child development advisor and is actively involved in advancing Response-Based practice and Indigenous resistance models. As well, she is involved in community leadership, agency governance and community safety, offering her perspectives and services to agencies such as Métis Community Services in Victoria, the BC Yukon Transition House Society, and the Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society. She is the president of the Aboriginal Family Therapy Centre, a university instructor and community educator. Her work has centered around integrating healing and social justice, particularly to victims of violence and internees of the residential schools. Catherine Richardson is married, has three children and lives in Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island.
Justice Murray Sinclair was appointed to the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba in 2001. In 1988, when he was appointed the Associate Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba, he was that province’s first Aboriginal Judge, and at that time, Canada’s second. That same year he was made Co-Commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry to investigate the condition of Aboriginal people in all aspects of the justice system.
Maria Wilson is the Training and Development Coordinator of the Socio-Economic Development Department of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
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