• What is trauma?
• How do the experiences of colonization “qualify” as trauma?
• How might trauma be transmitted across the generations?
• Crime and other social problems as understandable responses to trauma
• Implications for healing individuals, families and communities

• Western vs. Aboriginal psychological explanations
• Considering the western diagnosis of complex
  post- traumatic stress disorder: How applicable is
  the diagnosis
  in these circumstances?
• Problems with mainstream psychiatric diagnosis in addressing the unique Aboriginal situation
• Impacts of housing, health and cultural alienation on many Aboriginal communities
• Addressing and overcoming the root causes of crime at a community level: Abuse, violence, unemployment,
  drug/alcohol abuse, and low literacy
• The urban vs. on-reserve reality

Chief Mark Wedge l Carcross Tagish First Nation

• Rebuilding at all levels: Legislation, enforcement,
  and adjudication
• A legislative breakthrough: The Family Act
• Creating approaches grounded in traditional values
• Engaging families through community development
• Addressing and overcoming fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, and the use of food as “medicine”
• Educating your community

Jack Hicks-Invited l Social Research Consultant
Dr. Samuel Law l University of Toronto

• New research on suicide trends in the Artic
• The mental illness connection to suicide and the
  situation in Nunavut
• Addressing adjustment disorder
• The connection of social factors to suicide rates

• Enforcement vs. policing
• Local policing initiatives in remote and isolated communities
• Creating approaches based in traditional values
• Training and involving community members

• Enforcement vs. policing
• Local policing initiatives in remote and isolated communities
• Creating approaches based in traditional values
• Training and involving community members

• A new, positive way to approach healing in your community
• Prevention through community development and education
• Finding positive identities for youth
• Overcoming the impediments and beginning to heal
• Case Study: Turtle Creek Concepts
  - Taking pride in confidence
  - Utilizing Turtle Creek concepts in your community
• Case Study: The Hobbema Cadets
  - A new way to address the issue of youth gangs
  - Changes in crime rates
  - Impact on the students and community

• The role of the government in community healing
• Overview of new community programming
• The success of Hollow Water First Nation’s Community
  Healing Program
  - Canada’s premier Aboriginal healing program
• Case Study: Prince Rupert Urban Aboriginal Justice
  - Challenges of providing holistic and culturally
  appropriate services in an urban environment
  - The role of elders and house groups
  - Providing sentencing advisory services in mainstream courts
• Case Study: The Qwi:qwelstom – Sto:lo Nation Justice Program
  - A focus on relationships and interconnections of all l living things
  - Healing through circle work
  - Healing individuals, healing families, healing communities
  - A means of asserting the inherent responsibility to be
  self-determining

Dr. Stephen Wormith l University of Saskatchewan

• Cultural awareness, competence and sensitivity
• Heterogeneity of Aboriginal peoples
• Assessment and diagnosis
• Holistic approach
• From institution to community

Dr. Liz Elliot l Simon Fraser University

• Addressing the issue of over-representation of Aboriginal people in Canadian correctional facilities
• Empowering communities in the corrections process
• Methods to engage communities in the healing process
• Challenges facing those who want to create alternatives to custody
• Implementing cultural programming in correctional facilities and during parole

• Addressing and overcoming complications with mainstream
  court systems
• Is indigenization of the justice system a solution?
• Potential collaboration of Western and Aboriginal Justice systems
• Restoring social control according to culture and tradition
• Implementing Aboriginal ways of responding to wrongdoing into your community
• Understanding and utilizing transformative justice methods
• Determining what approach is right for your community