This is the background report to a two-day gathering, The Sacred Space of Womanhood: Mothering across the Generations, hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health in Ottawa, Ontario, January 24-25th 2012
"Urban Aboriginal mothers’ experiences with Family Preservation Services indicate that while such interventions ameliorate the challenges they face, poverty is not adequately addressed." [abstract]
"This paper summarize[s] traditional knowledge from Manitoba Aboriginal experiences, and provide[s] data from contemporary on-reserve grandmothers." [abstract]
"Recent research revealed that Canadians of First Nations origin, including North American Indians, Métis, and Inuit, were vastly over-represented among grandparents raising grandchildren in skipped generation households (households which include only grandparents and grandchildren)."