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Fisher River Cree Nation: Innovative solutions toward improved post-secondary education experiences and outcomes
June 6, 2016 | Authored by: Shauna MacKinnon
Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) is located two hundred kilometers north of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. As is the case with many First Nations, its membership is young and growing and this leads to many opportunities and challenges. In an ag …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Defining effective supports for students with emotional and behavioural disorders: The wraparound approach in the context of a community school
February 1, 2016 | Authored by: Nadine Bartlett
Children and youth with emotional and behavioural disorders [EBD] have complex needs that span an array of service providers (Stroul & Friedman, 1994; VanDenBerg, 2008) and given the paucity of supports for this population they may not receive the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Fast Facts – The Next Step: Literacy Programming in Manitoba
January 27, 2016 | Authored by: Jim Silver
Low levels of adult literacy in Manitoba are a barrier to full participation in our society. Easily accessible supports, located in low-income communities are needed to address this challenge, a new study finds.
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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The Next Step: Literacy Programming in Manitoba
January 27, 2016 | Authored by: Jim Silver
Economists have estimated that low literacy levels cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars annually (Gulati 2013; McCracken and Murray 2010; Sharpe et al. 2009). Those with low literacy skills suffer poorer health and add disporportionately to t …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Drawing on our Strengths: State of the Inner City Report 2015
December 15, 2015 | Authored by: Keeley Ten Fingers, Darren Lezubski, Jim Silver, Molly McCracken
It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ State of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important pover …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
