Healing Our Spirit Worldwide - The Sixth Gathering

Friday, September 03, 2010 - Friday, September 10, 2010

Hawai'i Convention Center 1801 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96815 United States

List of Accepted Abstracts by Track – As of March 20, 2010

NOTE: Only Lead Presenters are listed. Co-presenters are not included in this list.
Conference schedule of presentations to be determined at a later date.

Alcohol, Drugs & Other Addictions

Name: Aiona Anderson Canada

Affiliation: HeywaynoquHealing Circle for Addictions Society
Title: Reclaiming our Health from Addictions with Traditional Foods
Brief Description: The importance of nutrient dense Traditional Food for reclaiming our health from disease and
addictions. With knowledge of traditional and some modern food we can reclaim our health and
be more successful on our journey through recovery.

Name: Amy McLaughlin New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Addiction Counselling of Maori, the Indigenous People of Aotearoa, New Zealand and the Maori
worldview of Te Ao Maori
Brief Description: Maori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, have suffered the longterm impact of
colonisation, and struggle to thrive under an imposed Western paradigm, which has resulted in
high rates of addiction among Maori. The key to healing in the counselling process is the client's
reconnection to and reconciliation with the traditional Te Ao Maori worldview.

Name: Andre McLachlan New Zealand

Affiliation: Pai Ake Solutions Ltd
Title: Weaving the realities and responsibilities: Crossing culture and concepts of healing within co-
existing mental health and addictive disorders.
Brief Description: This presentation reflects on our journey working within mainstream and kaupapa Mäori social
and mental health services, with a focus on exploring the meaningful practices inherent within
Maori worldviews and concepts.

Name: Anita Makokis Canada

Affiliation: Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions Institute
Title: A cultural Aboriginal Tobacco Cessation Training model and Aboriginal Youth Spit Tobacco
Intervention resources.
Brief Description: Nechi has designed a series of workshops designed to assist, Aboriginal people develop the skills
and knowledge base to address the issue of commercial tobacco misuse among our people.
Participants will gain skills in brief intervention and in taking these skills back and applying to their
home communities begin to reduce the numbers of individuals actively dependent on commercial
tobacco.

Name: Anthony Ah Kit Australia

Affiliation: FORWAARD - Foundation of Rehabilitation With Alcohol Aboriginal Alcohol Related Difficulties
Title: Healing Circle of Life
Brief Description: This presentation will introduce a model that allows clients to identify areas where their current
issues, concerns and problems exist. After these problems are identified and when the time of life
is pinpointed when the problems first occurred, the healing processes will then begin.

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Name: Ava Bear Canada
Affiliation: Muskoday First Nation
Title: Action for Change
Brief Description: Learn how one community is using a multi-faceted approach to take back their community.

Name: Brent Rory Coulston New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Taku purakau (My story on the wings to wellness)
Brief Description: I am going to talk about my journey through addictions to wellness

Name: Carol Ann Hopkins Canada

Affiliation: National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation
Title: Culture in Addictions Services using Indigenous Intelligence
Brief Description: ―Indigenous Intelligence‖ is discussed as a key concept in applying Indigenous culture in
addictions services and systems. The application of Indigenous Intelligence is presented through
a cultural systems model for a continuum of addictions services.

Name: Celeste Tootoosis Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Sakewew Substance Awareness and Empowerment for Youth(SSAEY)
Brief Description: Sakewew Substance Awareness and Empowerment for Youth (SSAEY) is a program that was
funded by the Canada Drug Strategy and Enbridge Canada. It assessed the Substance use of
First Nations Youth and created substance awareness through Youth Empowerment.

Name: Christine Ivan Australia

Affiliation: Aboriginal health council of Western Australia
Title: Beyond the Big Smoke Tobacco Control, delivered through Aboriginal Community Controlled health
Services, Western Australia
Brief Description: Presentation will outline methods and results of combating smoking behavior amongst staff and
user populations of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs)in Western
Australia.

Name: Colleen Dell Canada

Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Title: Healing with Horses: Aboriginal Youth in Residential Treatment for Solvent Abuse
Brief Description: This presentation outlines how a culture-based model of resiliency (that is, an individual‘s inner
spirit is intertwined with their family, community and the land) adopted by a youth residential
treatment centre for solvent abuse in Canada, is interconnected with an equine assisted learning
program offered by one of the centres. Horses, based on their intuitive nature, offer insight for the
youth into their self and relations with others.

Name: Dennis Saddleman Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Word Warrior: Words of an Aboriginal Superhero
Brief Description: A drama/dance presentation by Dennis Saddleman and his granddaughter Wind Dancer George
depicting events that are part of the life of a residential school survivor and recovered alcoholic.
Dennis is a noted poet and humourist.

Name: Eric Nathan New Zealand

Affiliation: Raukura Hauora o Tainui
Title: Te Toi o Matariki Best Practice Model
Brief Description: Te Toi o Mataariki describes aspects of behaviour and characteristics.The model looks at
changing attitudes & behaviours and developing personal & social skills.

Name: Jay Brent Hohaia New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Kei te whakapikiaki kia matou whanau whanui / Uplifting our whanau as one
Brief Description: An Outpatient Program for people with an intellectual disability for people who identify as Maori or
other cultural minorities.A program specifically to fulfill a service gap not only in Aotearoa New
Zealand but i te Ao katoa, around the world. A first.

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Name: Jeff Cummings New Zealand
Affiliation: Pacific Contingent from New Zealand
Title: Takanga A Fohe(Unison of Oars)
Brief Description: We will use Performing Arts(Drama, Dance, Song) to demonstrate common themes and addiction
issues facing our pacific people in New Zealand

Name: John Mayo Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Intervention with Mental Health and Substance Affected Families; a Traditional Kanien‟keha:ka
Mohawk Response
Brief Description: The ever increasing impact of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness (dual diagnosis) has been
devastating to Native communities. An authentic Mohawk (Kanien‘keha:ka) approach will be
presented as a form of intervention respecting the traditional and community-based ways of
healing.

Name: Kim Jonathan Canada

Affiliation: White Buffalo YOuth treatment centre
Title: White Buffalo Youth Inhalant Treatment Centre
Brief Description: This presentation will provide an overview of the treatment Program at White Buffalo with
examples of sessions and the daily, weekly treatment schedule. In addition, there will be
opportunity for informal discussion and questions.

Name: Kristen Timothea Maynard New Zealand

Affiliation: Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC)
Title: Ruru Parirau – Shaking off negative stereotypes and reframing the story
Brief Description: A key challenge of the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand‘s (ALAC) new plan to reduce
alcohol-related harm among Maori (and the focus of this session) is to find innovative ways to
combat negative stereotyping of Maori drinking and transform these social constructions into
more helpful ones.

Name: Maria Walmby Australia

Affiliation: Back On Track Youth and FamilyHealing
Title: Making A Difference providing Cultural Camp- Healing and Recovery. for Indigenous at risk Youth
aged 12-18 with anti-social, criminal behaviour and
Brief Description: Journey of Hope,Recovery and Healing for at risk‖ Indigenous youth aged12-18 involved in
antisocial and criminal behaviour and drug addiction. grass root community group, the strength
and love of the mothers. Camps have positive results. We love our children and taking positive
steps to make a difference, never giving up on hope and allow them to dream...and reach their
full potential in life.

Name: Neera Lewis New Zealand

Affiliation: ARC Counselling Service
Title: How I work as a Maori male Clinical within a mainstream service.
Brief Description: Whakatauki(Proverb)
He aha te mea nui o te ao. He tangata, He tangata, He tangata
What is the most important thing in the world? It is Man, it is man, it is man

Name: Papa Nahi New Zealand

Affiliation: Hapai Te Hauora Tapui
Title: Planting Seeds for Whakapapa Ora (Intergenerational Wellbeing):
Brief Description: Papa Nahi and Zoe Martin Hawke will draw on Hapai Te Hauora‘s underlying values of Maori Ora
Mauri Ora, other Maori models of health and wellbeing and the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples to reflect on lessons learned in the lead up to local government
gambling policy reviews. They will recount their journey raising awareness of the harms of
gambling to whanau, hapu and iwi and supporting iwi to drive approaches to addressing gambling
harm with their communities using their own culturally authentic solutions.

Name: Peter Waples-Crowe Australia

Affiliation: Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation(VACCHO)
Title: Improving the outcomes of Aboriginal Injecting Drug Users in Victoria Australia
Brief Description: This presentataion will report on the findings of two projects that are trying to improve the health
outcomes for Aboriginal injecting drug users in Victoria Australia

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Name: Rawiri Evans New Zealand
Affiliation:
Title: “Ki te marama i te tangata me marama hoki i tona ao” “If you wish to understand a man, know the
world that he lives”
Brief Description: Are cultural competencies critical in a Maori Mental health practitioner this presentation is a
framework that supports best practice.

Name: Roda Jeannie Grey Canada

Affiliation: Isuarsivik Treatment Center
Title: Inuit Reclaiming Their Identity through healing from trauma and addictions
Brief Description: Isuarsivik Treatment Center, located in the far north of Quebec, Canada, delivers their program to
Inuit clientele in their native language.

Name: Sharon Acoose Canada

Affiliation: First Nations University of Canada
Title: Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women‟s Healing from Drug Abuse
Brief Description: This presentation focuses on a research study that examined the role of stigma and identity in the
healing journeys of over 100 First Nations women in treatment for illicit drug abuse. The findings
highlight the significance of cultural identity to women‘s healing, and are discussed from the
varied voices of our research team members with lived experience, treatment providers and the
women who shared their stories of healing while in treatment for drug abuse.

Name: Susana Deranger Canada

Affiliation: National Native Addictions Partership Foundation/Organization for the Development of Cenepa and Bord
Title: Nipping Addictions in the Bud: The Awajun/Wampis Ancestral School's Answer to Cultural
Empowerment and Addictions prevention
Brief Description: This is a dynamic multi media presentation on a historic joint National Native Addictions
Partnership Foundation and Organization for the Development of Cenepa and Bordering
Communities Ancestral School in the Peruvian Amazon that address addictions prevention and
ownership of cultural sustainable development. Through discussion, videos, and pictures
participants in this workshop will experience hope for addictions-free healthy lifestyles in a climate
of peace and balance with Mother Earth.

Name: Tash Terry United States

Affiliation: Indigie Femme
Title: Weavings of healing music from the Northern and Southern Hemisphere's.
Brief Description: The messages in Indigie Femme's lyrics take people to their inner voices calling for individual and
collective change for the sustenance of humankind living on the earth. Based on community
support and involvement we can participate in this shift of consciousness to our indigenous logic.

Name: Te Atarangi Whiu New Zealand

Affiliation: Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori Development)
Title: Realising Whanau Ora through Whanau Resilience
Brief Description: Realising Whanau Ora through Whanau Resilience

Name: Terry Huriwai New Zealand

Affiliation: Maori/Indigenous Health Institute (MIHI) University of Otago, Christchurch
Title: “The dream upon the dream”: A history of the Maori addiction treatment sector in New Zealand
Brief Description: The passion and commitment that has been the basis for the development of the Maori addiction
treatment field over the last 30 years comes from an overarching concern for the wellbeing of
Maori whanau. This had led to the development of a strong Maori focused approach to working
with those who struggle with addiction.

Name: Thomas Yokota United States

Affiliation: Ke Ola Mamo
Title: A ole Puhi Paka – Ke Ola Mamo‟s Tobacco Cessation Program
Brief Description: Examining lessons learned since 2005 when Ke Ola Mamo began developing and implementing
a tobacco cessation program within a Native Hawaiian Health Care system and sharing the future
of Ke Ola Mamo's tobacco cessation program.

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Name: Warren Miller Australia
Affiliation: Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council of SA inc
Title: Makin‟ Tracks – a mobile substance misuse program for rural and remote Communities throughout
South Australia
Brief Description: Oral presentation with photosThis presentation will outline some of the activities the Makin‘
Tracks team have undertaken, look at the difficulties faced by workers in remote communities and
at how this unique project is helping to overcome the problems of isolation faced by many
workers in Indigenous communities.

Community Healings
Name: Alan Brant Canada
Affiliation:
Title: Sacred Gifts - Our spirit, our bodies ~
Brief Description: Assisting in reconnecting the Sacred Gifts with the Sacred Medicine and thereby creating a
Sacred Balance in our lives.

Name: Anthony Brown Australia

Affiliation: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
Title: Koori Kids and Adolescent Health: Integrating a culturally appropriate team approach for the
Aboriginal Community in Victoria
Brief Description: This presentation will discuss how the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service is addressing the
social, emotional and spiritual well-being of young Koori people living in Victoria.

Name: Darlene Rose Okemaysim Canada

Affiliation: Iskwewuk Ewichiwitochik
Title: Missing Indigenous Women - Remembrance, Awareness, & Supports
Brief Description: Remembering, supporting, and healing the families of missinge indigenous women brings
forgiveness and understanding.Women are valued, loved, and part of the social network of
society - let's protect each other.

Name: Deanna Ledoux Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Childhood Lost; Lost Children: Recovering Self and Culture after Residential School and Adoption.
Brief Description: The film & presenters will provide insight to workshop participants, as it illustrates the
impacts of being one of the last generation that was forced to attend the government/church run
schools.

Name: E. GordoN McGillivary Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Understanding the Medicine Wheel and it's Relationship to Left/Right Thinking and the Philosophy
of Taoism.
Brief Description: The audience will explore the basic teachings of the Medicine Wheel and it's relation to Left/Right
Thinking and the Basic Philosophy of Taoism with respect to cross cultural awareness.

Name: Ed Buller Canada

Affiliation: Public Safety Canada
Title: Obstacles and Opportunities.
Brief Description: This interactive workshop will explore strategies for communities to overcome obstacles to
developing processes and recognize opportunities to advance a healing agenda within their
communities.

Name: Harry Snowboy Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Honouring Our Children
Brief Description: The rites of passage prepared us for life but also for the inevitable journey back to spirit world.

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Name: Isabella Tatar Canada
Affiliation: Legacy of Hope Foundation
Title: Remembering War, Genocide and other Human Rights violations: Oral history, New Media and the
Arts – Our Stories… Our Strength
Brief Description: This presentation will present promising practices in collecting oral histories; how to use collective
histories to inform efforts; and to showcase a new educational resource that has drawn from and
uses residential school Survivor stories, the website, ―Where are the Children?‖

Name: Jan Dill United States

Affiliation: Partners In Development Foundation
Title: The Art of Being Shameless For the Benefit of Our Community
Brief Description: Do what must be done without shame, when doing for the benefit of others.

Name: Jeanine Tamati-Elliffe New Zealand

Affiliation: TORU Ltd
Title: Kainga Korerorero – regenerating our language, revitalising our traditions, reviving our spirits.
Brief Description: Kainga Korerorero isn‘t just about the revitalisation of our language – it is about reconnecting
people to their traditions, to their communities and raising healthy tamariki and whanau.

Name: Jenelle McMillan Canada

Affiliation: Hey Way Noqu Healing Circle
Title: Our Elders Speak Wisdom: A Return to the Traditional Ways
Brief Description: Empowering individuals to reclaim their cultural ways by adapting to today‘s society without the
fear of being assimilated through sharing teachings handed down orally from generation to
generation to restore health in our indigenous communities.

Name: Jennifer Beale Australia

Affiliation: Butucarbin Aboriginal Corp.
Title: Our Journey to Uluru Tackling Obesity
Brief Description: My presentation focuses on tackling obesity amongst Aboriginal people. I will discusses the
journey,achievements and learning of an Aborignal group the Koori Lifestyle Club.

Name: Jonathan Dewar Canada

Affiliation: Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Title: Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and Healing: Impacts of Compensation on
Survivors‟ Healing Journeys
Brief Description: The Aboriginal Healing Foundation will present the findings from two studies exploring the
impacts of compensation on individuals, families, and communities. The first study explores
compensation pre-Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the second post-IRSSA.

Name: Kiri Pardoe New Zealand

Affiliation: Turanga Health
Title: Street by Street - Alcohol Community Violence Project
Brief Description: By going into the homes and speaking to the families directly a better picture of the issues for
each family was achieved.Working together and taking servIces to their backyard can make a
difference.

Name: Looee Okalik Canada

Affiliation: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Title: Couples Retreat
Brief Description: Upon receiving the Couples Retreat, one individual realized that their marriage is/was
salvageable. Healing takes place in many forms.

Name: Lori New Breast United States

Affiliation: Mahnokini & Associates
Title: Nitsiskiiksi-Our real faces,strenght, spirit and ancestral legacies.
Brief Description: Indigenous theatre techniques will be shared during this interactive creative expression
adventure. The face of the participant is the landscape to create a unique visual multi-
dimensional representation of their wellness journey.

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Name: Maria Trevizo United States
Affiliation: Native Wellness Institute
Title: Healing from Grief and Loss
Brief Description: Participants will learn about grief and loss- the stages and ways to heal and work through it. The
session will include a healing talking circle to demonstrate the power of our Indigenous ways of
healing.

Name: Meleanna Aluli Meyer United States

Affiliation:
Title: Giving Visual Voice to Community: The Healing Power of Cultural Grounding & Creative
visioning through the Visual Arts – A practitioner‟s journey
Brief Description: HANDS-ON EXPERIENTIAL ARTING WORKSHOP/ Using drawing & collage techniques to
learn how to access cultural insights & tools participants will work with relevant iconic
images and symbols. Using successful examples of working in community Meleanna will assist
participants in affirming their talents by drawing on the collective creative memory of those
communities that they come from.

Name: Moe Milne New Zealand

Affiliation: Te Moemoea
Title: Toku ao, toku turangawaewae.
Brief Description: A secure sense of identity enables a person to stand proud in the world.

Name: Nathalie Lachance Canada

Affiliation: Health Canada
Title: Population Health Indicators: Information for Action
Brief Description: The presenttaion stresses the importance of education, employment and income to health. It also
build on teh Tipi Model developed by First Nations Elders and community leaders in Treaty 6.

Name: Ngarra Murray Australia

Affiliation: Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, University of Melbourne
Title: Sharing our stories, Building on our Strengths
Brief Description: 30 minute film

Name: Pono Shim United States

Affiliation:
Title: Who Are We? The Great Question to Healing
Brief Description: We are here as caretakers to help solve world problems. Our methods to heal and prosper lie in
our story telling.

Name: Rayleen Burns Australia

Affiliation: Royal Flying Doctor Service
Title: Healing of our Hurt - Healing of our Hearts. Is Government Legislation the Answer?
Brief Description: Is Government Intervention the Answer for healing of the hurt - healing of the heart and dealing
with present day transgenerational trauma transference?

Name: Rose Rangiahao New Zealand

Affiliation: MAHITAHI TRUST
Title: HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS.
Brief Description: Working within Residential Services to provide quality stewardship and guardianship.

Name: Samia Goudie Australia

Affiliation:
Title: Old ways New ways - telling our stories – our way
Brief Description: This presentation explores the development of an ongoing project undertaken within the annual
camp activities of the Hopevale- Pelican project, which involves the community in caring for
country activities on traditional sea country. Through story, using digital storytelling as an
embedded practice with the Guggu Yimithir people, old ways and new ways come together.

Name: Sipporah Enuaraq Canada

Affiliation: Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Title: National Inuit Residential Schools Healing Strategy
Brief Description: National Strategy for Inuit communities in Northern Canada.

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Name: Stephanie Thomas Canada
Affiliation: Snuneymuxw First Nations
Title: Coast Salish Traditional Weaving
Brief Description: To demonstrate the art of Traditional Weaving.

Name: Theda New Breast United States

Affiliation: Native Wellness Institute
Title: Gathering of Native Americans (GONA)
Brief Description: The Gathering of Native Americans (GONA), a process has been selected as best practices for
addressing the behavioral health needs of children and adolescents across Indian Country
comprised of over 500 Tribal Nations. Traditional healing songs, laughing games, and art therapy
are the focus of this presentation.

Name: Tracy Tarnowski Canada

Affiliation: Assembly of First Nations
Title: First Nations in Canada and Cancer Screening: counting on communities to overcome cultural
barriers
Brief Description: In the recent AFN literature review on cancer screening, many people interviewed for the project
reported convictions among First Nations that cancer is inevitable, that talking about cancer
invites it in, and that cancer can be attributed to not living properly. Dispelling this misinformation
is a necessary first step in overcoming a reluctance to talk about cancer.

Name: Yvonne Clark Australia

Affiliation: University of Adelaide
Title: Lateral Violence: An update from Adelaide, South Australia
Brief Description: The presenters will talk about their journey of understanding and learning about lateral violence
from HOSW (2006) and how they have taken it back to their local community in Adelaide, South
Australia by providing education and workshops.

Cultural Healing Practices

Name: Alice John Canada
Affiliation: Aj's Cree-Ations
Title: Laughter through Moccasin making
Brief Description: Travel, reach a goal or a positive life style with your moccasins

Name: Danielle Oakes New Zealand

Affiliation: Raukura Hauora O Tainui
Title: Using Rongoa (Maori traditional Medicine)to achieve Whanau Ora (Family Health).
Brief Description: Our presentation looks at using key Maori principles and rongoa to move maori people from a
state of unwellness to a state of wellness.We look at the traditional process in how we can
achieve this and also cover the underlying principles of why this works.

Name: Darlene LaForme Canada

Affiliation: Ganohkwasra FASS
Title: Nurturing Others in Grief
Brief Description: The Haudenosaunee way of assisting those in grief and helping them move on.

Name: Darlene Ritchie Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Mino Bimadiziwin - Honoring the Voices of Children - Group Treatment for Indigenous Child
Witnesses of Violence
Brief Description: This culturally based program supports traditional, cultural, and therapeutic opportunities for
Indigenous Children in need. The program incorporates music, play, art and behavior therapy.

Name: Denise Gauthier-Frohlick Canada

Affiliation: Laurentian University
Title: Recovery from Trauma: Cedar Bath and Soul Retrieval as

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Brief Description: This presentation highlights the partnership between Aboriginal women researchers and
Aboriginal women healers versed in holistic and culturally appropriate healing techniques.
Through the example of two research projects, the evaluation of the effectiveness of traditional
healing modalities to heal the pain associated with family violence will be presented.

Name: Diane Hill Canada

Affiliation: Ka'nikonhriyohtshera
Title: The Story of Thatohtarho: How the man with the hair of snakes was cleansed
Brief Description: Traditional cultural teachings originating from an oral tradition often provide insight and guidance
into how contemporary practices of healing and wellness are developed and applied. This
workshop presentation explains how.

Name: Helene Wikaira New Zealand

Affiliation: Te Mai O Ha
Title: Mai O Ha Walking with your Tipuna
Brief Description: This presentation is growing practice amongst Kaupapa maori services Aotearoa / New
Zealand.Whanau and individuals are seeking to reclaim their own autonomy by healing through a
natural process with their tipuna.The past, the present and the future.

Name: Iris Allen Canada

Affiliation: Charles J Andrew Youth Treatment Centre
Title: Charles J Andrew Youth Treatment Centre Aboriginal Cultural land based program for Aboriginal
Youth
Brief Description: The Charles J Andrew Youth Treatment Centre is an Aboriginal Youth Addictions healing
program.The Landbased component provides a natural healing environment for Aboriginal Youth.

Name: Jade Maddox Australia

Affiliation: Yorgum Aboriginal Corporation
Title: Cultural Expressions of Healing; Pt 1
Brief Description: A program in schools presented by our Senior Aboriginal Family Educators. Healing by
incorporating Art as a tool.

Name: Joyce-Anne Raihania New Zealand

Affiliation: Ministry of Health
Title: Tangihanga: Fatigue, Injury and Death.
Brief Description: This presentation explores the attitudes and behaviours of tangihanga and the physical and
emotion impact on the participants.

Name: Kathleen McHugh Canada

Affiliation: Assembly of First Nations
Title: GENDER BALANCED ANALYSIS IS GOOD MEDICINE
Brief Description: This workshop introduces the importance of sex and gender concepts into health research and
policies while re-establishing our sacred relationships through gender balancing.

Name: Laura Teina Piripi New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Tihei-wa Mauri Ora!
Brief Description: Tihei-Wa Maori Ora is a healing construct based on Maori World View of Creation: Korero Tuku
Iho (stories handed down by our ancestors).
Te Korekore (Realm of Potential Being),
Te Po, ( Realm of the great, dark, long night, of becoming),
Te Whei-Ao, (Transitional state between Realms of Darkness and Light) ki te Ao Marama, (World
of light and Being)
Tihei-wa Mauri Ora! (Living breath of life!)

Name: Lauren Teixeira United States

Affiliation: California Indian Storytelling Assn
Title: The California Indian Storytelling Association: Preserving and Promoting Ancient to Contemporary
Storytelling Traditions
Brief Description: The preservation and enlivening of Indigenous stories--role model techniques for all cultures

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Name: Laurie Morrison New Zealand
Affiliation: Te Korokoro Rangahau Hauora T/A Morrison Consultants, Ltd.
Title: Nga Pou Wahine; A Kaupapa Wahine Intervention to address problem gambling from a Maori
women‟s reality
Brief Description: Nga Pou Wahine is a framework for intervention that will involve the development of an
educational and healing programme and resource that seeks to support Maori communities to
address problem gambling from a Maori women‘s reality.

Name: Lindsay Crowshoe Canada

Affiliation: University of Calgary
Title: Managing Health Service Quality and Identifying Competencies
Brief Description: This workshop aims to share research findings and engage in dialogue with indigenous peoples
and health professionals to considers ways to ensure that indigenous people are receiving
culturally competent care. We strongly believe that culturally competent care is crucial to
improving the health of indigenous peoples and we feel that there is much to learn from and
share with other indigenous populations worldwide.
Name: Margaret Poulette Canada
Affiliation:
Title: We'koqma-qewiskwa Drum Circle
Brief Description: Music is a powerful vehicle for healing and cross-cultural communication. Smudging ourselves
and our drums and thus consecrating our voices and drums to be used by the Creator, we seek
to do our part in the Healing of our Spirits Worldwide.

Name: Marilyn Janzen Canada

Affiliation: Carrier Sekani Family Services
Title: Moving forward through looking back
Brief Description: A presentation that will discuss successes and challenges of operating a culturally relevant
successful program.

Name: Mayrah Yarraga Dreise Australia

Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology
Title: Sustaining place through the arts and cultural connections.
Brief Description: A hands on holistic arts experience for women engaging in dance, visual art, language, body
design and ground painting.

Name: Mere Taylor-Tuiloma New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Healing Through Song
Brief Description: Healing Through Song shares the gifts of healing through the creation of song. I introduce the
work that I do in and around healing and the gift of song,. I and my whanau (Ohana) utilize
traditional indigenous instruments as well as the guitar and our voices. The workshop will also
work with participants to potentially create their own Song of healing, depending on what we are
guided to do at the time.

Name: Mick Gooda Australia

Affiliation: The Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
Title: Lateral Violence In Australia
Brief Description: Lateral Violence is one of the most compelling challenges facing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Island communities in Australia.In response, the CRCAH is developing a Lateral Violence
Awareness Program and wishes to discuss its development and obtain feedback from attendees
at the Sixth Gathering

Name: Nelson Wahanui New Zealand

Affiliation: Hapai Te Hauora Tapui
Title: Hakari - Celebrating; Maori, togetherness, wellness
Brief Description: Hakari - providing an environment to be Maori, be together and be well, using traditional values
informed by the Maori Ora Mauri Ora framework.

Name: Nena LaCaille Canada

Affiliation: Enaahtig Healing Lodge
Title: Living our Teachings: The Enaahtig Model of Indigenous

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Brief Description: The Enaahtig Healing Lodge and Learning Centre was established in 1995 and since that time
has provided opportunities for wholistic healing and Indigenous learning to thousands of
Aboriginal community members. Our presentation will share some of our challenges in
developing a service that provides support across the stages of life, while sharing strategies for
success in developing as a regional Indigenous healing model

Name: Nora Bressette Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Cultural Foot Soak Teaching through Experiential Learning
Brief Description: These Cultural Foot Soaks are used each week with clients between the ages of 12-17 at a
National Solvent Abuse Treatment Centre in Canada which is one of the cultural methods used in
treating clients with addictions. The participants will leave with the knowledge and skills to use
this method of wellness for themselves or their clients.

Name: Onaje Muid United States

Affiliation: Transformative Education Associates
Title: Creating Saba Uhuru Saba Ujija (SUSU) Healing Circles and Social Health Councils
Brief Description: Engagement in small to large community circles for healing and community health empowerment
organizing. This is solution centered and practical way to rebuild trusting relationships targeted
towards and well-being and social health.

Name: Pamela Matsuda United States

Affiliation: Naleihulu no Ke Ola Mamo
Title: Cultural Balancing of People in Places with Things....
Brief Description: Convening an International Prayer Circle.

Name: Pukehuia, Huia New Zealand

Affiliation: Nga Manu Korihi Roopu
Title: Please Fill in Title
Brief Description: In accordance with traditional Maori custom, on the completion of an oral presentation, Pukehuia
will be accompanied by the members of Te Manu Korihi to sing/chant a song of embellishment to
end the presentation before the floor is open for discussion.

Name: Suzanne L. Stewart Canada

Affiliation: University of Toronto
Title: Indigenous mental health and healing practices: narratives on
Brief Description: Presents the process and findings of Indigenous health research conducted by Indigenous
scholars and community partners.

Name: Teri-Lee Isaac Canada

Affiliation: Selkirk Spirit Dancers
Title: Selkirk Spirit Dancers
Brief Description: We are the Selkirk Spirit dancers from Pelly Crossing, Yukon, Canada.
Education, Training & Capacity Building

Name: Allan Brown New Zealand

Affiliation: Te Kotuku Rerenga Tahi Ltd
Title: 'Kia Whai Oranga a Mokopuna or tamariki well-child' presentation.
Brief Description: Learning to live together - by developing an understanding of others and their history, traditions
and spiritual values is one of the four pillars of education proposed by the World Health
Organisation. Kia Whai Oranga a Mokopuna is an educational programme that will take you on a
spiritual and physical journey to protect our children to protect our future!

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Education, Training & Capacity Building
Name: Carol Carifelle-Brzezicki Canada
Affiliation: Alberta Health Services - Capital
Title: Canada-U.S. Joint Indigenous Summer Research Institute: The Scholars‟ Perspectives
Brief Description: Scholars from the Joint Indigenous Summer Research Institute Series (2007-2009) will report on
a series of three summer institutes sponsored and facilitated through a joint agreement between
Canada and the United States. Participants will discuss possibilities for future collaborative
international educational initiatives.

Name: Cherie Tuaupiki New Zealand

Affiliation: Capital & Coast Mental Health Services
Title: Whakapai Cultural Clinical Framework & Evaluation tool – Example Case study
Brief Description: An evaluation tool to validate the use of Case Studies used for training and assessment of
clinician‘s competency and practice. This will conclude with a report on the effectiveness of the
framework.

Name: Debbie Dedam-Montour Canada

Affiliation: National Indian & Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization
Title: Community Health Representatives‟ Road to Competency based on the Primary Health Care (PHC)
Approach
Brief Description: NIICHRO is using the Primary Health Care approach to protect and expand the role of CHRs and
to develop a vision for their accredited training in all regions of Canada. The poster will cover
CHR program history and list 7 domains and 22 competency statements for a Community Health
Representative.

Name: Gail Gallagher Canada

Affiliation: Assembly of First Nations
Title: Palliative Care in First Nations Communities: The Current Reality in Canada
Brief Description: Together, family-centred palliative care is taking place in Peguis. Community care staff and
families are beginning to work more closely to combine their knowledge, wisdom and to share
their expertise. This enables people to stay at home if this is their wish – regardless of the size
and location of the community.

Name: Gregory Phillips Australia

Affiliation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation Development Team
Title: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, Australia
Brief Description: Establishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation in Australia is a
momentous moment in history. This presentation will report on roles and progress of the
Foundation in assisting communities to heal.

Name: Isaac Hernandez Canada

Affiliation: First Nations Wellness/Addictions Counsellor Certification Board
Title: Indigenous Counsellors Certification Process
Brief Description: Will introduce and provide information about the process of building capacity for our indegenous
Wellness/Addictions Counsellors. the Process has been developed by Indegenous people for
Indigenous Counsellors.

Name: Jillene Joseph United States

Affiliation: Native Wellness Institute
Title: Wellness in the Workplace
Brief Description: Participants will better understand where unhealthy work behavior comes from and more
importantly will learn positive tools to bring wellness into the workplace.

Name: JoAnn Tsark United States

Affiliation: Papa Ola Lokahi
Title: Building Indigenous Capacity in Research
Brief Description: `Imi Hale - Native Hawaiian Cancer Network provides training, mentorship and support to budding
Native Hawaiian researchers. Community based participatory research provides multiple
opportunities for individuals communities to engage and build capacity in all levels of research.

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Name: Kara Eddington Australia
Affiliation: Charles Sturt University
Title: The Djirruwang Experience Respecting the Integrity of both Indigenous and Mainstream Culture in
Mental Health Education
Brief Description: The Djirruwang Experience is an interactive National University programme that respects the
integrity of both Indigenous and Mainstream Cultures.

Name: Kirimatao Paipa New Zealand

Affiliation: KIA MAIA LTD
Title: SACRED SOULS - DESCRIBING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN HEALING, MEDICINE AND CULTURE
Brief Description: Maori health is declining, we as Maori have the key to our well being. Our health has become a
political football match, with Maori dying on the sidelines.

Name: Kirsty Maxwell-Crawford New Zealand

Affiliation: Te Rau Matatini
Title: Te Whakauruora Restoration of Health - Maori Suicide Prevention Initiative
Brief Description: Te Rau Matatini is a national Maori health workforce development organisation that aims to
progress Maori workforce development to enhance whanau ora, mental health and wellbeing. Our
goal is to support Maori aspirations and add value through workforce development solutions that
are well informed, collaborative and enhance mental health service-responsiveness.

Name: Laura Revels United States

Affiliation: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Title: Digital Storytelling: Blending Storytelling and Technology to Develop Health Education Materials for
the Alaska Native Peoples
Brief Description: Digital storytelling blends Alaska Native storytelling traditions with computer-based storytelling as
a way for cancer survivors and people whose lives have been impacted by cancer, or other
traumas, to be able to tell their own story. Through the use of digital storytelling technology,
people are empowered to share a meaningful, heart-felt message, and are moved from being
passive recipients of health messages to actively creating a way to have their voice enter the
conversation to make a difference in the wellness of their community.

Name: Lynne Stuart Australia

Affiliation: USQ
Title: Title - The Pygmalion effect - Success Strategies in Retaining Indigenous Nursing Enrolments in the
Bachelor of Nursing Program at USQ.
Brief Description: The presentation is a POSTER presentation featuring a custom designed concept map called
Helping Hands'. This concept map incorporates visual diagrams outlining support strategies to
assist Indigenous nurses to complete their nursing studies.

Name: Monique Gray Smith Canada

Affiliation: Roots of Empathy
Title: Weaving Empathy Through Communities
Brief Description: This workshop will provide an Indigenous cultural connection into two unique programs, Roots of
Empathy and Seeds of Empathy. Roots of Empathy and Seeds of Empathy educate the mind and
heart by fostering the emotional and social intelligence of children.

Name: Paul Stewart Australia

Affiliation: Onemda
Title: Sharing Our Stories and Building on Our Strengths
Brief Description: This presentation and film showcases the great work of Aboriginal health workers talking up their
Community health project.

Name: Paula Morelli United States

Affiliation: University of Hawaii Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work
Title: Indigenizing Social Work Education: Waking Up to the Challenges
Brief Description: The Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work at the University of Hawai`i is engaged in
discussion and debate about indigenization in the context of social work education. What this
means in practice remains to be discovered, however, the challenge to provide relevant social
work education in the 21st century must be addressed. The triumphs and difficulties of the
school‘s processes will be shared.

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Name: R. Lisa Bourque Bearskin Canada
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Title: Looking back at Indigenous Nursing Knowledge and Looking Forward to Culturally Safe Nursing
Practice
Brief Description: This presentation will highlight the students‘ tale of being caught between two worlds. Discussion
on respecting traditional knowledge in nursing will engage the audience to reflexively think about
their practice.

Name: Randi Madison United States

Affiliation: University of Alaska Anchorage
Title: Coalition for Alaska Native Student Success: A Working Model at the University of Alaska
Anchorage
Brief Description: This poster will provide an illustrated pathway from vision to incorporation into the University
system. It emphasizes inter-generational leadership, , activism, decolonization and integrative
epistemology.

Name: Ruth Ann Herd New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Te Pu Te More Te Weu- Pu-Wananga Hei Arahi i Nga Take Rangahau: Indigenous -led research in
Aotearoa and Worldwide
Brief Description: The round table will give participants an opportunity to share insights on native led research and
hear what other researchers are doing in their own communities, and an opportunity to speak to
other indigenous researchers about their work and to create an international support network for
indigenous researchers.

Name: Sandi Franks New Zealand

Affiliation: Mahitahi Trust
Title: TOKA (Toku Ora, Kei Ahau/My wellness rests with me). A MAORI RESPONSE TO THE “WELLNESS
RECOVERY ACTION PLAN”.
Brief Description: Adapting Non-Maori health plans using Maori concepts.

Name: Sandra Kelty Australia

Affiliation:
Title: Aboriginal Mental Health Workers Traineeship
Brief Description: This qualitative study explores the experiences of Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Trainees by
way of stories. This study demonstrates the rationale of the program, which is to break down
barriers thus improving access to mental health services for Aboriginal people.

Name: Suzanne Brant Canada

Affiliation: FNTI
Title: Indigenous Community Health Approaches Program: A Model for Indigenous Health Educational
Brief Description: This presentation will explain how the Indigenous Community Health Approaches program was
researched, designed, developed and implemented in a culturally relevant context. It will explore
how FNTI's Indigenous Community Health Approaches program can be used as an educational
model in other cultures.

Name: Traceyanne Herewini New Zealand

Affiliation: ADHB Maaori Mental Health Services
Title: The Incredible Years (IY) on a Marae
Brief Description: The Incredible Years (IY) on a Marae Hear our story of running an Incredible Years parenting
programme with Indigenous Maaori on a Marae. Considerations to western and Maaori
paradigms in delivery and evaluation gives us hope and innovation for the future.

Name: Tracy Bear-Coon Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Just Say No to Stick People with Genitals: Teaching Aboriginal Teens about Healthy Sexuality
Through Participatory Theatre
Brief Description: This award winning CURA funded project branches out to Saskatchewan where there is a high
population percent of Aboriginal teens and discovers the effectiveness of teaching healthy
sexuality and communicating boundaries through participatory theatre.

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Name: Vicky Takamine United States
Affiliation: Papa Ola Lokahi
Title: 'Ilio'ulaokalani: Hula as Resistance
Brief Description: A workshop and cultural demonstration on hula and its role in advocacy for native rights, the
protection of our natural and cultural resources and sacred sites of Hawai'i

Name: Walbira Murray Australia

Affiliation: WMP
Title: Hands On Capacity Building
Brief Description: Hands on practical tools for engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders.
Elders and Traditional Teaching

Name: Alapa'i Kahuena United States

Affiliation: Naleihulu no Ke Ola Mamo
Title: PULAMA PONO
Brief Description: Presentation will include posters, various fresh herbs, natural materials and fauna used
traditionally to relieve stressed conditions in the body.

Elders and Traditional Teaching

Name: B. Puni Kekauoha United States
Affiliation: Kula no na Po‗e Hawai‗i
Title: Kawaihonaakealoha (respectfully submitted with love): addressing the health, social, and safety
concerns of kupuna (elders)
Brief Description: Kawaihonaakealoha, ―respectfully submitted with love,‖ is a community-planning project
addressing the health, social, and safety needs of residents 55 and older in the Papakolea
Hawaiian homestead. This project proposes to focus on the creation of a community-based
navigation system for maintaining and supporting kupuna in a manner that honors cultural
traditions and social norms.

Name: Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez United States

Affiliation: California Indian Storytelling Assoc
Title: When the Ancestors Whisper: Stories from Native California
Brief Description: The presentation will include storytelling and songs and the philosophy/wisdom that each story
and song carries.

Name: Lynette Paglinawan United States

Affiliation: Kupuna CounciL, UHMBT School of Social Work
Title: 'Ike Kupuna: Cultural Ways of Healing
Brief Description: Traditional Hawaiian mental and spiritual practices that promote harmony, health and well being
related to death, dying, and spiritual presence.

Name: Major Sumner Australia

Affiliation: Tal-Kin-Jeri Dance Group
Title: Tal-Kin-Jeri (Bush Turkey) Dance Group - Recognising and Honouring our Ngatji (Totems). Healing
through connection to Culture and Traditional Teaching
Brief Description: Using Culture as a healing tool.Health through connection to Culture: teaching about creation;
lands, waters, animals, food, and traditional medicines.

Name: Mario Garrett United States

Affiliation: San Diego State University
Title: In Search of the Missing Cohorts: Migration of young American Indians and the depletion of
Caregivers
Brief Description: This presentation outlines current demographic composition of native communities illustrates the
migration patterns of native people compared to other ethnic groups in the United States.

Name: Michael Kusugak Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Traditional storytelling, Inuit

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Brief Description: The setting is the flickering light of a seal oil lamp. I am the storyteller, telling the traditional stories
of my people, the Inuit.

Name: Norma chidanpee Benger Australia

Affiliation:
Title: Midirri, Green plum story about consequence of not listening to our elders and obeying our tribal
lore.
Brief Description: This presentation will be a voice recording that goes together with the painting to tell the story.

Name: Pat Kopusar Australia

Affiliation: Yorgum Aboriginal Corporation
Title: Protocols in Contemporary Society, Pt 2 (Kopusar)
Brief Description: A program in schools presented by our Senior Aboriginal Family Educators. Healing by
incorporating Art as a tool.

Environment, Health & Stewardship

Name: Helen Moewaka Barnes New Zealand
Affiliation: Whariki Research Group, Massey University
Title: Weaving Knowledge, People and Environments
Brief Description: This paper will present a model that provides a conceptual basis for understanding relationships
and interactions between people and their environments. These relationships will be illustrated by
stories of indigenous research and action.

Name: Janice Brendible United States

Affiliation: Northwest Indian College
Title: Returning to our Roots: Understanding Human-Environment Interactions from the Perspective of
Tribal College Communities
Brief Description: As part of community-based participatory research project, students and staff from tribal colleges
around the U.S. were asked to describe how human health and the environment are connected.
The findings from this research resulted in a variety of materials for the community, including a
short film and a pilot curriculum for a Native Environmental Health Sciences course.

Name: Jordan Aramoana Waiti New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Motivating Rangatahi to Become Rangatira for the Future
Brief Description: Thisw presentation outlines the components involved in a Rangathi (youth) leadership camp
based around traditional Maori concepts. It also outlines the benefits gained by Rangatahi as
they engage in Kaitiakitanga (guardianship) and Mahinga kai (traditional food gathering and
harvesting).

Name: Maree O'Hara Australia

Affiliation: Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation
Title: Small Resources Big Outcomes
Brief Description: Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation has supported an Eye Health Programme where there
may have been few resources, but consultation and respect for Aboriginal culture has meant that
this programme has been able to have big outcomes in preserving Eye Health.

Name: Mary Hindelang United States

Affiliation: Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
Title: Weaving the Connections between Health, Environment, Stewardship, and Traditional Ecological
Wisdom
Brief Description: Engaging students in traditional ecological knowledge to discover the interrelatedness of all
organisms in their ecosystem, and to explore how all animals need to make wise food and energy
choices to stay healthy, can weave connections between personal health, the health of our Earth,
and stewardship. This project provides inquiry-based learning for students about personal health
choices, the rich biodiversity of their ―home‖ and the organisms with whom they share their
ecosystem, and the impact that humans have on the quality of the environment for all living
things.

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Name: Pip Pehi New Zealand
Affiliation: Otago University
Title: “We all are One: Lessons and Themes from Research into Well-being associated with Customary
Fishing in Aotearoa”.
Brief Description: ‗Ka Ora Te Whenua, Ka Ora Te Tangata‘ is a research project conducted over a three-year
period to investigate the relationship between the health and well-being of our environment and of
our people and their communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This paper is written to both outline
the development of this research project and also the themes and lessons gained.

Name: Rachael Selby New Zealand

Affiliation: Massey University
Title: Pathways to whanau development and family healing
Brief Description: This presentation reports on the success of an extended family mentoring programme based at a
marae in New Zealand. The programme which has been running for three years brings Maori
back to the marae to set goals with their family and to find support for achieving them.

Name: Samantha Jackson New Zealand

Affiliation: University of Otago
Title: School Gardens: A Place for Indigenous Health Perspectives
Brief Description: This presentation uses indigenous health perspectives to focus on the role of gardens in
environmental schools in New Zealand, and how gardens can facilitate greater individual and
community health and well being.

Name: Te Taru White New Zealand

Affiliation: New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute, Tepuia
Title: From Te Papa to Tepuia – A Cultural Journey of Healing and Reconciliation
Brief Description: Te papa and Te Puia are two national cultural institutions in New Zealand who are world leaders
in the historical and cultural interpretation of their country. Through innovative and ground-
breaking practices with respect to Maori culture in particular, they have reconciled with a history
of oppression and raised the cultural profile and presence of Maori and offered a pathway of
healing through partnership practices that are underpinned with strong Maori concepts and
values.

Name: Waitangi Wood New Zealand

Affiliation: Wai Communications Ltd
Title: Customary Environmental Monitoring and Surveillance
Brief Description: PROJECT AIM - To reduce the incidence of gastrointestinal and other illnesses caused by the
consumption of contaminated shellfish in Northland informed by building capacity within tribal
authorities, combining traditional axioms with contemporary scientific practices.

Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Name: Allan Sumner Australia
Affiliation: Southern Adelaide Health Service
Title: Transitional Health Care Packages for Aboriginal People exiting the acute Setting.
Brief Description: The Aboriginal Transitional Care Project is a project aimed at developing a model of care to
Aboriginal People exiting acute health services.It will cover the issues face by Aboriginal
Communities living the Southern Adelaide region of South Australia including access and equity
issues for Aboriginal people.

Name: Andrew Black Australia

Affiliation: Bulgarr Ngaru Medical Aboriginal Corporation
Title: SUBSIDISED FRUIT AND VEGETABLES FOR ABORIGINAL FAMILIES- HEALTH INTERVENTION OR
JUST A HAND-OUT?
Brief Description: An evaluation of a healthy food subsidy program conducted in 3 rural Aboriginal health services.
The evaluation highlights the importance and challenges of Aboriginal community involvement in
evaluation research from the local Aboriginal perspective.

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Name: Brenda Manuelito United States
Affiliation: nDigiDreams, LLC
Title: Reclaiming Our Power, Identity, and Health Through Digital Storytelling
Brief Description: Digital storytelling sheds an important light on everyday indigenous people and places and brings
context and meaning to ―social determinants of health. This workshop discusses the three-day
training process and the many uses and approaches to digital storytelling.

Name: Carol Noelani Lau United States

Affiliation: Montefiore Medical Group - Comprehensive Family Care Center
Title: Access and Quality of Care for Adolescents in Community Health Centers: Can We Do Better?
Brief Description: Via a partnership between Bronx Community Health Network and the Montefiore Medical
Center‘s community health centers, and collaboration with a NYC DOHMH supported Healthy
Teen Initiative, adolescents the Bronx Community receive Primary Health Care. We describe the
need for better interventions for adolescents who sometimes have difficulty accessing care, and
outline the results of recent quality reviews, focus group research, and institution-wide initiatives
put in place to improve care delivery across multiple locations in the Bronx.

Name: Carolyn Crowder United States

Affiliation: APIA
Title: Improving Performance Reporting is Key to Success for Self-Governance Tribes in the United
States
Brief Description: Introduction by two U.S. Tribal Health Teams on how to use performance measures to improve
patient and population health outcomes.

Name: Cheryl Morin Canada

Affiliation: Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation
Title: Creating Connections For Children: Reincorporating Traditional Gifts to Create A Healthy Present
Brief Description: Learn how traditional values and practices helped elementary female students become more
successful in their day to day encounters at school.By bringing back cultural ideas and skills, our
children's present and future lives have a better chance of healthy success.

Name: Chris Shade Canada

Affiliation: Blood Tribe
Title: The Indigenous Peoples Wellbeing Management System: An Indigenous Solution to Indigenous
Issues
Brief Description: Summarize your presentation into 2 sentences in the box below.:The Indigenous Peoples
Wellbeing Management System is taking e-health past m-health to m-wellbeing, where m
represents mobile. It is an indigenous-led approach to accomplishing the WHO‘s goal of bridging
the gap and improving catastrophic levels of social determinants of health among disadvantaged
populations.

Name: Claire Hughes United States

Affiliation:
Title: Ka Lokahi Wahine: A culturally based training for health professionals
Brief Description: To address poor health service utilization and to sensitize the health care system in Hawai`i, the
NH Cancer Committee developed and implemented a culturally based training for health
professionals.

Name: Dave Baldridge United States

Affiliation: NATIONAL INDIAN PROJECT CENTER
Title: Living the Reality: An Organ Donation
Brief Description: This session graphically highlights the emotional roller coaster of a failed organ transplantat for a
Native father and daughter. The short digital video is highly-charged, and discussion may be
emotional.

Name: Donna Marie Palakiko United States

Affiliation: Ke Ola Mamo
Title: Ke Ola Mamo - A Community Approach to Health Care Delivery
Brief Description: The purpose of this presentation is to describe Ke Ola Mamo‘s community approach to health
care delivery over the past 17 years.

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Name: Emma Palmantier Canada
Affiliation: Northern BC Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Task Force
Title: The Northern BC Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Task Force Video: it‟s four year history recounted, where it is
now and where it hopes to be in the future.
Brief Description: The Northern BC HIV/AIDS Task Force will provide a video documentary presentation of its four
year history. The video will also feature successful community HIV/AIDS initiatives including
Skidegate, Haisla (Kitamaat), Lake Babine, Nak‘azdli and Prince George.

Name: Jaime Koebel Canada

Affiliation: Jig On The Fly
Title: Jig On The Fly
Brief Description: Our presentation is a 20 - 30 minute performance of mostly dance but also oral storytelling
intermingled with dancing to illustrate our stories. Throughout this performance we insert comedic
entertainment and a taste of typical Metis humour which spices up our performance.

Name: Jayne Tawhi-Amopiu New Zealand

Affiliation: Capital Coast DHB NZ
Title: Utilising Te Pounamu model within Maori Mental Health
Brief Description: There is a need to promote Maori Models of health in order for them to be recognised. Te
Pounamu model is one of these models which was introduced for Maori by Maori.

Name: Jennifer Poudrier Canada

Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Title: Picturing the Healthy Body and Body Image Through Photovoice: First Nations Women‟s
Perspectives
Brief Description: Using photography, interviews and sharing circles, we describe our community based
participatory research which explores the meaning of healthy body weight and body image from
the perspective of 30 First Nations women in Saskatchewan, Canada to better inform local health
and wellness initiatives.

Name: Joseph Keawe`aimoku Kaholokula United States

Affiliation:
Title: A Cultural Approach in Kane Health Dialogue
Brief Description: The purpose of the Kane Initiative is to engage NH kane in identifying strategies consistent with
Hawaiian cultural values and practices to increase kane participation in preventive health care.

Name: Josephine Auger Canada

Affiliation: Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions Institute
Title: Spider Weaving: STI/HIV Prevention Using Popular Theatre and Community-Based Participatory
Research in an Indigenous Community
Brief Description: The purpose of my presentation is for knowledge translation and knowledge exchange to help our
people find culturally appropriate ways of disease prevention and health promotion.

Name: Kapuanani Rothfus United States

Affiliation: Hui Malama Ola Na 'Oiwi
Title: Mai ka Mala'ai (from the garden). A land, food, and health education intervention model to teach
diabetes self-management skills
Brief Description: Summarize your presentation into 2 sentences in the box below.:The Mai ka Mala'ai (from the
garden) Program is a 10-week diabetes education course which incorporates Hawaiian values
and traditional foods. A unique aspect of the program is that it combines classroom based
education with backyard gardening to reinforce culture and lifestyle concepts. Pre-post evaluation
of participants has shown a statistically significant improvement in clinical indicators for diabetes.

Name: Kathy Absolon Canada

Affiliation: Wilfrid Laurier University
Title: Kandossiwin! This is how we search for knowledge: Indigenous methodologies in research
Brief Description: This presentation illustrates a wholistic framework of Indigenous methodologies of doing
research. Participants will see how Indigenous knowledge and worldviews informs various
methods of conducting solid and valuable searches for knowledge (research).

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Name: Kawika Liu United States
Affiliation:
Title: Ke ola o Ka Lahui: towards a theory of Native Hawaiian health
Brief Description: This presentation will present a theory of Native Hawaiian health which goes beyond personal
choice and genetic vulnerability to integrate structural factors into an understanding of population
and group health outcomes. The theory recognizes that health outcomes are the product of both
individual and structural factors in a specific time and place.

Name: Kelly Scott-Ritchie New Zealand

Affiliation: Northland District Healthboard
Title: Reducing Inequalities in Hokianga, Aotearoa
Brief Description: Reducing inequalities in Hokianga by utilising innovative health promotion techniques.

Name: Keriata Stuart New Zealand

Affiliation: Public Health Association of New Zealand
Title: Trading off: How Maori women negotiate decisions about alcohol and pregnancy
Brief Description: How do indigenous women manage the complex issues around alcohol and pregnancy? Learn
about a model that describes how New Zealand Maori women see the influences on their alcohol
use and the ways they negotiate making decisions.

Name: Kim Kehoe United States

Affiliation: Queen's Medical Center - Native Hawaiian Health (Cardiac)
Title: Integrating the Wisdom of Traditional Healing into Modern Day Health Care Reform: What makes
Integrative Care Hawaiian?
Brief Description: Holistic models of health care positively impact clinical outcomes & improve native patient‘s
experiences with the modern health care system.

Name: Kimberley Barker Canada

Affiliation: Assembly of First Nations
Title: Global Indigenous Initiative to Stop TB
Brief Description: Continue to inform and provide information on Indigenous Stop TB strategies and efforts to
eliminate TB in Indigenous communities.

Name: Kirsten WhiteCloud United States

Affiliation: Onondaga Case Management
Title: Person-Centered Planning as a means of self-advocacy for Indigenous Peoples in mainstream
healthcare
Brief Description: Person-Centeredness has been utilized in a number of helping fields with various populations.
This workshop will provide an overview of the philosophy and tools of Person-Centeredness as
an opportunity for Indigenous self-advocacy in healthcare.

Name: Layla Lyndon-Tonga New Zealand

Affiliation: Nga Manga Puriri
Title: Nga Manga Puriri Problem Gambling Services in Te Taitokerau, Northland region of New Zealand.
Brief Description: Exploratory view of the changes in Maori culture with the rise of Maori renaissance and how this
influences Healthy Public Policy Development as a protective factor for Maori communities in the
Northland region of New Zealand.

Name: Linda Carson Henderson United States

Affiliation: American Indian Diabetes Prevention Center
Title: Diabetes during Pregnancy: Indentifying Knowledge Gaps
Brief Description: This research was on American Indian diabetes beliefs and practices among 77 pregnant women
as these relate to diabetes prevention, maternal care, infant risk and mortality, care-seeking, and
adherence to health care provider treatment recommendations. This research will provide
practitioners of multiple disciplines new information that identifies 1)gaps in diabetes education
during pregnancy, including the effects of diabetes on overall health and the health of their
infants, 2) reasons for delayed care-seeking, and 3) reasons for non-adherence with treatment
recommendations.

Name: Lisa Kaanoi United States

Affiliation: Ke Ola Mamo
Title: American Indian and Alaska Native Healthcare in Hawaii

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Brief Description: To provide an overview of the American Indian and Alaska Native Healthcare Program in Hawaii.
To describe the partnership established between Indian Health Services and Ke Ola Mamo.

Name: Loren Brener Australia

Affiliation: National Centre in HIV Social Research
Title: The Aboriginal Cancer Care Project: An evolving partnership process
Brief Description: This presentation describes the collaborative, organically evolving, process in which the
qualitative Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers took time to learn from one another and to
develop a culturally safe and appropriate data collection procedure. This process has led to the
development of a culturally safe and appropriate model for Aboriginal interviewers conducting
sensitive qualitative research in Aboriginal communities.

Name: Margo Greenwood Canada

Affiliation: National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
Title: Indigenous Peoples Health under Northern Lights II: The Canadian National Collaborating Centre for
Aboriginal Health and the Building of Infrastructur
Brief Description: The purpose of this presentation is to explore multi-disciplinary approaches of producing social
determinants of health research about aboriginal peoples in Canada

Name: Melany Cueva United States

Affiliation: ANTHC
Title: Bringing What‟s on the Inside Out: Expressive Arts as a Pathway for Learning
Brief Description: Through the expressive arts of moving, drawing, painting, and sculpting Alaska Native
Community Health workers added depth to understanding as they envisioned wellness choices
and actions as part of cancer education and wellness course offerings. Arts-based education
builds community, promotes a holistic way of learning, and supports fun.

Name: Mele Look United States

Affiliation: University of Hawai'i
Title: Island Food Models for Culture-based Nutrition Education
Brief Description: The process undertaken to develop culturally-relevant synthetic food models as a tool for nutrition
education will be discussed. Cuture-based applications for nutrition education will also be
presented.

Name: Michael Sheridan United States

Affiliation:
Title: “Leaning into the Spirit”: The Spiritual Gifts of Caregiving within the African American Community
Brief Description: This presentation will present findings from a two-year study of 300 African American caregivers
of elders that show the importance of spirituality as a protective factor for maintaining both
physical and emotional health. The lived experiences of caregivers also will be shared and the
implications for caregivers and elders from diverse Indigenous peoples will be considered.

Name: Nia Aitaoto United States

Affiliation: Papa Ola Lokahi
Title: Weaving traditional practices and modern technology to increase breast cancer screening
Brief Description: Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to identify key steps in the
development of a culturally appropriate and relevant cancer awareness and screening program
Pacific Islanders.

Name: Patricia Patu Sigley New Zealand

Affiliation: Health Unit Northland Regional Corrections Facility
Title: HEALTH CHALLENGES ON THE INSIDE
Brief Description: Health Education and understanding to mainly Maori prisoners.The challenges and programs
offered to help and stop re-offending.

Name: Randi Nymo Norway

Affiliation: Narvik University College
Title: Folk Medicine as an Element in an Integrated Sámi Health Care System
Brief Description: Folk Medicine and Kinship-systems complement Professional Health Services

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Name: Sarah De Leeuw Canada
Affiliation: National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
Title: Indigenous Peoples Health under Northern Lights III: The Canadian National Collaborating Centre
for Aboriginal Health and Producing Relevant Social De
Brief Description: The purpose of this presentation is to explore multi-disciplinary approaches of producing social
deteminants of health research about aboriginal peoples in canada.

Name: Sheryl Yoshimura United States

Affiliation: Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services
Title: Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Program (HELP) for Pacific Peoples
Brief Description: Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Program (HELP) for Pacific People is a 6-month diabetes education
program which incorporates Native Hawaiian and other Pacific People‘s values, beliefs, and
practices in the learning strategies. The program includes interactive culturally-informed
classroom education and maintaining a communal food garden. Pre-post evaluation of
participants has shown a statistically significant improvement in clinical indicators for diabetes.

Name: Susan Hedges Australia

Affiliation: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
Title: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service,
Brief Description: Our presentation will identify programs that work well and address our community needs. It will
also significate outcomes and challenges of the program.

Name: Tania Rawiri New Zealand

Affiliation: Northland District Health Board
Title: Waka Ama – Community development and Health Promotion strategy
Brief Description: An exciting journey in health promotion leading to change at a community level. Now sustainable
and lead by the whanau, community and health promoter is now rolling this out to other
communities.

Name: Tina Ngaroimata Fraser Canada

Affiliation: Aboriginal ActNow BC and Aboriginal Preschool Vision Screening
Title: Indigenous Peoples Health under Northern Lights I: Aboriginal ActNow BC and Health Promotion
Strategies for First Nations, Metis, and Urban Aboriginal
Brief Description: The ActNow BC research examines transformative and innovative strategies to close the gap
through the implementation of two multi-year health promotion and chronic disease prevention
initiatives.

Name: Troy Austin Australia

Affiliation: Fitzroy Stars Football Club
Title: „It‟s more than a game‟: The Fitzroy Stars Football Club performing off the field
Brief Description: This presentation will discuss how the game of football can influence and impact on our
Community in a positive way regardless of the score.

Name: Tuhakia Keepa New Zealand

Affiliation: Counties Manukau DHB
Title: Mental Health First Aid for Whaanau – Addressing mental health and addictions issues at a
whaanau level.
Brief Description: Mental health and addictions issues are lived and felt in communities and in most cases these
issues will never reach Mental health and addiction services designed to address them. This
presentation discusses the Mental Health First Aid for Whaanau programme, a mental health
literacy education programme designed to develop capacity at a whaanau level to provide
support to themselves and others.

Name: Veronica (Lani) Eugenio United States

Affiliation:
Title: Live ALOHA (Live A Life Of Healthy Attitudes and Activities)
Brief Description: It's a participatory presentation... The participants will learn the nutrition jingles and learn the
basic locomotor and non-locomotor skills through imitation and dance.

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Name: Warner Adams Canada
Affiliation: Carrier Sekani Family Services
Title: Indigenous Peoples Health under Northern Lights IV: NEAR BC and Partnering and Practicing to
Produce Transformative Education through Networks for Abo
Brief Description: The presenatation on NEARBC is an opportunity to create a platform for Knowledge and
Educational transfer across organziation and functional boundaries. It is to support the
development of Aboriginal Health Research

Historical Trauma & Cultural Oppression

Name: Amy Bombay Canada
Affiliation: Carleton University
Title: Impacts and reactions to the Indian Residential School Apology: Perspectives of Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Brief Description: In the month following the apology and approximately 1 year later, 183 Aboriginal and 270 non-
Aboriginal peoples from across Canada were asked about various issues relating to Indian
Residential Schools and the apology offered by the Canadian government for its role in the Indian
Residential School system. Descriptive statistics, relationships among variables, and group
comparisons (i.e., Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal) will be presented and discussed in order to
assess what impacts (if any) this apology had on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in
Canada.

Name: Bernadette Iahtail Canada

Affiliation: Creating Hope Society of Alberta
Title: Reclaiming and Restoring the Aboriginal Family; Circle of Understanding
Brief Description: The poster presentation will encourage participants to examine and recognize the ongoing effects
of residential schooling/child welfare and the today‘s issues of child welfare.

Name: Betty Bastien Canada

Affiliation: Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions Institute
Title: Reconciling Indigenous Pedagogy after Colonization
Brief Description: Through incorporating Indigenous spirituality and Indigenous ways of knowing, healing and
learning into our lives, Indigenous peoples will master our challenges and determine our destinies
for our collective well-being.

Name: Brittany Bingham Canada

Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Title: The Cedar Project: Surviving the Streets Without Shelter, Trauma and HIV vulnerability among
Aboriginal young people who use drugs in two Canadian cities.
Brief Description: This study investigates HIV vulnerability among Aboriginal young people in two Canadian cities.
Issues of historical trauma, sexual abuse, homelessness and substance use are discussed.

Name: Don Seymour Canada

Affiliation: Kamloops Indian Band
Title: Coming Home: Healing the Residential School and Coming Home to Ourselves and our Culture
Brief Description: The focus of the presentation will be three fold: the events that comprise surviving the residential
school experience; the impact of the residential school on the individual and family and the
creation of three generations of trauma; the process of healing/rebalancing in order to find our
true selves again within our cultures.The presentation will interweave Don‘s story with the clinical
information shared by Jann. Both experiential and storytelling will be incorporated, with
awareness of the impact on participants.

Name: Dorene Bernard Canada

Affiliation: Residential School Survivor
Title: Healing from our Past: Creating a Better Future
Brief Description: Impacts of Historical Trauma and the Residential School system on Native People in Atlantic
Canada. ( Mi'kmaq, Maliseet)

Name: Elizabeth Rink United States

Affiliation: MSU - Bozeman
Title: Influence of Historic Trauma and Loss on Native American Males Intent to Use Birth Control.

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Brief Description: This study examines the influence of historic trauma and loss on Native American mens birth
control use. Qualitative and Quantitative measures are used.

Name: Emmy Manson Canada

Affiliation: Inter Tribal Health Authority
Title: Share best practices of implementing culture with healing parallel with western approach to healing
legacy of residential school abuse(s) for survivor
Brief Description: ITHA/FNHH delivers a cultural based holistic healing program for Residential and
Intergenerational Survivors. A balance of traditional and cultural practice and a western modality
of healing are delivered to address the trauma and abuse for Indigenous people across Canada.

Name: Gordon Pemmican Canada

Affiliation:
Title: The Wolves Within & Principles of Life
Brief Description: We, are our own worst enemy and tormentors. We need to learn to protect ourselves better, from
ourselves.

Name: Heidi Quenga United States

Affiliation: Kutturan Chamoru Performers
Title: Puengen Minagof...A Night To Remember
Brief Description: A young man, going down the wrong path in life, returns to the Mariana Islands where he learns
about his past from the spirits of the ancient ones (I Tao Tao Mo'na). Through them he learns to
respect the land, others and most importantly himself.

Name: Iris Acoose Canada

Affiliation: Resolution Health Support Services
Title: Overcoming Generational Trauma
Brief Description: Former Indian Residential School Survivors and YTC Council Health and Social Development
staff will discuss the overall impact of the Indian Residential Schools on individuals, families and
communities.

Name: Nalani Minton United States

Affiliation: `Ike Ao Pono, University of Hawai‗i
Title: Cultural Recovery from Intergenerational Trauma
Brief Description: Recovery from historical and intergenerational trauma for indigen-ous peoples can be realized
through transformational combined with psycho-educational exercises andbrain chemistry
information which consciously reintegrates whole mind and whole being functioning with higher
intuitive intelligence and forward life supportive movement within the continuum of life.

Name: Renee Linklater Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Decolonising trauma work
Brief Description: Learn how Indigenous healthcare practitioners are working in the areas of wellness and wholistic
health, critiquing psychiatry and psychiatric diagnosis, and drawing on their own worldviews and
cultural teachings to work in a client-therapist relationship that addresses trauma, depression and
experiences of parallel and multiple realities.

Name: Tarquam McKenna Australia

Affiliation: Victoria University
Title: Reclaimative Arts Practice - Renewal of the Self
Brief Description: The Arts as therapy for self-determination, self-renewal and self-re-claimation

Indigenous-led Research
Name: Acushla Deanne O'Carroll New Zealand
Title: Haka and Hula Representations in Tourism
Brief Description: This presentation will provide a brief overview into the research conducted for a Masters of Arts
degree. The presentation will address the perspectives of haka and hula practitioners and
discuss the impacts and influences on haka and hula performances in tourism while exploring
and discussing the ways in which cultural values and representations effectively co-exist with
tourism.

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Name: Adele Cox Australia
Affiliation: Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health
Title: Exploration of cultural continuity in an Aboriginal Western Australian setting and its association to
the health and well-being.
Brief Description: The presentation will discuss findings from a recent study conducted in the North West of
Western Australia exploring the concepts of cultural continuity and its association to health and
wellbeing in an Aboriginal setting in Western Australia.

Name: Adrienne Y. Dillard United States

Affiliation: Kula no na Po`e Hawai`i
Title: CBPR in a Native Hawaiian Community - Kula no na Po`e Hawai`i and UH Medical School
Brief Description: This presentation proposes to focus on the process and implementation of an IRB approved
community-based participatory research project (CBPR) with academia and native Hawaiian
community.

Name: Analosa Ulugia-Veukiso New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: What's God got to do with Sex?
Brief Description: This presentation explores whether a relationship exists between patterns of spiritual engagement
and the sexual health activities of Samoan attending secondary schools in New Zealand. It
highlights that attending church and having a spiritual belief is important for Samoan youth in New
Zealand and explores the implications that this may have on future research and Government
policy.

Name: Catherine Graham Canada

Affiliation: Metis Centre of the National Aboriginal Health Organization
Title: Towards a Collaberative Aspproach to Improving Metis Health and Wellness in Canada
Brief Description: This poster presentation will provide participants with the opportunity to understand how through
awareness, network development, foundational research, and knowledge sharing that the Metis
Centre is working to advance the health and wellbeing of Metis in Canada.

Name: Dawn Bessarab Australia

Affiliation: Curtin University of Technology
Title: Solid Parents, Solid Kids;
Brief Description: Power point and group discussion

Name: Deborah Kenna-Watton Australia

Affiliation: Greater Western Area Health Service
Title: Growing our Own A NSW (Australia) Aboriginal Primary Health workforce rural & Remote
Trainee Program
Brief Description: Growing our Own A NSW (Australia) Rural & Remote Aboriginal Primary Health workforce
education, training, capacity building Program. A unique Indigenous qualitative research journey
undertaken as first time research participant in the NSW Institute of Rural Clinical Services and
Teaching (IRCST)Program 2007-2009.

Name: Donna Kurtz Canada

Affiliation: University of British Columbia Okanagan
Title: Breaking the Silence in Health Care:
Brief Description: Summarize your presentation into 2 sentences in the box below.:This workshop shares insights
from our indigenous-lead research which identified that urban Aboriginal women and Elders
continue to be subjected to racism and discrimination in the Canadian health care system.
Workshop participants will gain insight into how lived experiences and silencing of voice
significantly impact health and future health care decisions by joining a Talking Circle to share
their experiences and wisdom regarding accessing health care services and from which to turn
the gaze away from difference toward a collective vision of respectful, non-racist, non-
discriminatory health reform.

Name: Donna Lester-Smith Canada

Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Title: Healing the Wounds of Domestic Violence: Indigenous Traditional Holistic Practices

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Brief Description: In this presentation, my central thesis is that Aboriginal philosophies and methodologies are
integral to sound community-based health research with and for Aboriginal peoples. I am
currently investigating, through case study analysis, an Aboriginal holistic intervention model
provided by the agency, Warriors Against Violence (WAVS).

Name: Glenda Humes Australia

Affiliation: South West Aboriginal Medical Service
Title: We are the ones we are waiting for.
Brief Description: The presentation will provide an overview of the similarities and differences between the countries
in terms of philosophies, culture, environments and health programs. It will also cover the
collective learning from the group on their recommendations for change and a future direction for
meeting the health needs of Aboriginal people in Australia and more specifically in Western
Australia.

Name: Gwendolyn Gosek Canada

Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Title: Research for the sake of research or research as empowerment and healing: Rethinking research
approaches
Brief Description: Decolonizing efforts within Indigenous communities have been moving beyond defining and
implementing research protocols for their individual communities to defining Indigenous
approaches to research and its application to all aspects of research impacting Indigenous
peoples. The focus of this presentation will be on articulating basic principles of an Indigenous
research methodological approach which emphasizes how healing and empowerment through
our sacred talk is a critical aspect of research efforts in Indigenous communities.

Name: Jacqueline Ah Kit Australia

Affiliation: Department of Health and Families, Northern Territory Government
Title: A Centre of Clinical Research Excellence for Aboriginal Health: A partnership to build the research
and evaluation capacity of our sector.
Brief Description: This presentation will showcase the innovative clinical research undertaken. Furthermore, that
good ethical research in Aboriginal health, with Aboriginal control over the processes will assist in
‗Closing the Gap‘.

Name: Jane Gray Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Implementation of an Indigenous Health Survey in Canada – First Nations Regional Longitudinal
Health Survey (RHS).
Brief Description: The presentation will provide a detailed look at this successful national health survey process that
is First Nations controlled from start to finish and is guided by the First Nations Principles of
OCAP (Ownership, Control, Access and Possession) as it relates to holistic health information.

Name: Kahu McClintock New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Powhiri, a traditional process of engagement and participation applicable to the context of
indigenous research
Brief Description: This presentation will demonstrate how the traditional Powhiri process of engagement and
participation can be applied to the research context.

Name: Karen Glover Australia

Affiliation: Children, Youth and Women's Health Service
Title: Aboriginal Families Study, Research Project
Brief Description: This presentation provides information about an Aboriginal led research project to enable
Aboriginal women's voices to be heard and for their voices to influence improvements in services
during antenatal, birthing and up to six months after birth of baby.

Name: Louise Ihimaera New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: He Aratohu mo te Whanau Ora
Brief Description: Effective engagement and safety for whanau involved in research in a legislative environment.

Name: Marara Grace Rogers-Koroheke New Zealand

Affiliation: Hokianga Health Enterprise Trust (Hauora Hokianga)

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Title: Te Tomokanga - Art of Engagement through the eyes of Mao`i
Brief Description: Kaupapa Maori Research in practice, to bring about best practice models of community action
that brings about beneficial outcomes for hapu development. Te Tomokanga is based on
traditional engagement practices that focus on sustaining the whakapapa (genealogy, living past,
living present and a living future), marae and whenua (land)environments, education and most
importantly, people.

Name: Peter Mataira United States

Affiliation: MBT School of Social Work
Title: Strengths-Enhancing Evaluation Research: Building Indigenous Research Capacity in Aina (land)-
based Community Programs in Hawaii
Brief Description: This paper focuses on a Strength-Enhancing Evaluation Research methodology developed during
the undertaking of an evaluation study that looked at the success outcomes of aina (land)-based
community programs on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Shared are the insights, knowledge,
strategies and challenges from the evaluation researchers' perspectives highlighting the lessons
learned in terms of the need to constantly build long-term meaningful relationships and in how to
re-empower indigenous communities from the inside out and the outside in.

Name: Robyne Latham Australia

Affiliation: The Bouverie Centre
Title: Healing the Family's Spirit. Our post graduate degree in Family Therapy Training for Indigenous
Health workers.
Brief Description: The presentation will be expansive, interactive and fun. It will draw upon our students stories (with
their permission) and our collective research findings from this innovative, possibly world-first
family therapy training program, delivered specifically to Indigenous Family Therapy students.

Name: Sonia Isaac-Mann Canada

Affiliation: Assembly of First Nations
Title: First Nations Traditional Tobacco Use as a Prevention Method Against Misuse
Brief Description: The project will build research capacity in four First Nation communities, build and strengthen
relationships between First Nation Elders and Youth, lead to the development of action plans for
each of the participating First Nations, and facilitate national First Nations tobacco policy
initiatives.

Name: Vanessa Harris Australia

Affiliation: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
Title: A presentation that describe the Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program and how it was developed
through the Cooperative Research Centre Aboriginal He
Brief Description: Development of SEWB program through a facilitated development approach.

Leadership, Self-Determination & Governance

Name: Ailsa Lively Australia
Affiliation: Gindaja Treatment & Healing Indigenous Corporation
Title: Governance & Leadership in Indigenous Alcohol Treatment & Healing Services
Brief Description: To be a successful organisation operating within the Alcohol Treatment & healing
environment, those involved must ensure the appropriate Governance and Leadership is strong
to ensure the best outcome for the organisation and most importantly the clients.

Name: Chastity Davis Canada

Affiliation:
Title: Combining Our Strengths – Aboriginal & non-Aboriginal Wommen Working Together for a
Better Future
Brief Description: Combining our Strengths is about a year long journey of bringing Aboriginal and non Aboriginal
women together to share dialogues of possibilities and change. Sincere and respectful
relationships are built on mutual desires to create a world that fosters community, culture,
longevity of our planet and the wellness and prosperity of all children.

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Name: Deon Davis Australia
Affiliation: Peninsula Health
Title: The Peninsula Health ATSI Community Advisory Group: Developing community leadership and
engagement around health.
Brief Description: This paper will discuss Peninsula Health's attempt, and successes, in developing a local forum for
the indigenous community members to have a say in the development of health services in the
absence of existing Aboriginal Controlled organisations.

Name: Henry Murphy New Zealand

Affiliation: Nga Marae O Whangaruru
Title: Whangaruru: A Sheltered Harbour
Brief Description: The formation of a local indigenous group for the actualization of a Maori community

Name: Iona Edmonds New Zealand

Affiliation: Maori Mental health Services, Auckland District Health Board, NZ
Title: “Nga Wai Turama O Hawaiki - The reflecting waters of Hawaiki”
Brief Description: A group of women inspired by the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide Kaupapa and their journey to
connect with it. Their stories, challenges, learnings, reflections and the healings experienced on
that journey.

Name: Juanita De Senna New Zealand

Affiliation: Nga Mahi Kia Tupato o Tamaki-Makaurau
Title: The role of Indigenous Peoples in State Owned Agencies & Institutions
Brief Description: The role of the Indigenous Workforce in State Owned Agencies and Institutions – Part of the
solution or the problem - or are we really just Uncle Tom‘s?

Name: Kim O'Donnell Australia

Affiliation: Flinders University
Title: The Overburden Project: Contracting for Indigenous Health Services
Brief Description: This paper presents the results of a study of the complex and fragmented funding regime for
Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. We use contracting theory to
propose an alternative approach and highlight the importance of trust in the relationship between
funders and providers of Aboriginal health care

Name: Mirjam Hirch Germany

Affiliation: Center for World Indigenous Studies
Title: Integrating International Policy and Local Healing Knowledge
Brief Description: The presentation explores the most fundamental right of self-determination from the view of the
healing arts in the context of international policy.

Name: Rebecca Yvonne Wirihana New Zealand

Affiliation: Massey University, Dept. of Corrections
Title: Maori women‟s voices on live, experience and journey
Brief Description: The purpose of this research project is to explore how life experiences have contributed to the
involvement Maori women have as local leaders within their Maori communities.

Name: Ron Allen United States

Affiliation: SGCETC
Title: Self-Governance Tribes will present their experiences as a formula for successful health care
reform.
Brief Description: Our presentation will promote Tribal Self-Governance as an alternative approach to health care
reform. Self-Governance Tribes will share their experiences as catalysts for political change and
spiritual growth.

Name: Shane Bradbrook New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Indigenous Tobacco Use: Slaying The Tobacco Industry
Brief Description: Manufactured tobacco is the most preventable killer of indigenous peoples. Self-
determination/development principles are required to achieve dynamic change that ultimately
leads to improved health, economic & cultural outcomes

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Name: Shane Houston Australia
Affiliation:
Title: Where Culture and Government collide - Aboriginal Spiritual and Professional survival in public
sector life.
Brief Description: How do Aboriginal people employed in the public sector maintain their spirit and professional
energy when they are confronted by personal, cultural and government expectations and values
that are at times in conflict? This presentation addresses the Rights issues, political, personal and
professional efforts needed and in some cases trialled in Australia.

Name: Tania Mataki New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Tinorangatiratanga, Our leadership styles from a collective base.
Brief Description: This presentation will show a visual journey of our services restructuring.Keeping alive the values
of our tipuna in developing structures and policies that value maori tikanga.

Name: Tauto Sansbury Australia

Affiliation: Ceduna Koonibba Aboriginal Health Service Inc
Title: The importance of Aboriginal community-controlled health services in Australia
Brief Description: Aboriginal community controlled health services play a vital role in the health care of Aboriginal
Australians. This presentation highlights both the rationale for the move of Ceduna Koonibba
Aboriginal Health Service to full community control and what can be learnt from its journey and
experiences.

Name: Tersha (Reitu) Perry New Zealand

Affiliation:
Title: Te huarahi o te haki Tino Rangatiratanga - The Story of the Tino Rangatiratanga Flag
Brief Description: A dramatised walk through time of the Tino Rangatiratanga flag, from pre creation to now.
Incorporated into this production will be the current events occurring presently, the Tino
Rangatiratanga flag is possibly being chosen as an official national flag for the indigenous Maori
peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Name: Verna Stevens Canada

Affiliation: Assembly of First Nations
Title: First Nations Leadership Action on Non-Insured Health Benefits
Brief Description: The purpose of the Leadership Action Plan is to provide the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs
Committee on Health and Leadership with the necessary background and tools to advocate for
better access to benefits and services.

Mental Health
Name: Ainsleigh Cribb-Su'a New Zealand
Affiliation: Counties Manukau District Health Board-Whirinaki
Title: Te Kotahi Ra: The first day. A cultural/clinical assessment approach in youth mental health.
Brief Description: The journey of ‗He Kaakano'a Maaori clinical mental health team will be presented with specific
focus on describing the model of assessment developed in terms of the principles of:
Manaakitanga (the capacity to care), Rangatiratanga (the capacity for families to determine their
own well being) & ‗Nga rangatira mo apopo‘ (valuing children as the leaders of tomorrow).

Name: Paulette Woodward New Zealand

Affiliation: Te Runanga O Aeotearoa NZNO
Title: An Un Feeling World
Brief Description: Our cultural world view concerning the treatment options for the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa
who have mental health illness. The diverse treatments available including a holistic cultural
approach vs contemporary bio medical model of care

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Other

Name: Caroline Tait Canada

Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Title: Medical morality and the local worlds of Indigenous peoples: situating the ethical gaze across the
broad spectrum of mental health and addictions poli
Brief Description: This paper looks at the role of ethical principles in delivery public health programs and services to
First Nations and Metis peoples.

Name: Curtis Peeteetuce Canada

Affiliation:
Title: An Act of Elusion
Brief Description: A cultural arts theatre presentation about adressing abuse and the importance of the arts in
storytelling and educating our communities.

Name: Deborah Tagornak Canada

Affiliation: Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Title: National Strategy to Prevent Abuse in Inuit Communities
Brief Description: Pauktuutit is implementing the National Strategy to Prevent Abuse in Inuit Communities with our
partners.

Name: E. Sunny Greer United States

Affiliation: Ka Huli Ao
Title: Maoli Access to Resources and Impacts on Health
Brief Description: This panel will examine some of the issues and challenges surrounding Maoli access to the
resources necessary to perpetuate our culture, as well as related impacts on health and spiritual
wellbeing.

Name: Erin Wolski Canada

Affiliation: Native Women's Association of Canada
Title: The Native Women's Association of Canada's Culturally Relevant Gender Application Tool (CRGAT)
Brief Description: The goal of this workshop is to facilitate discussion on the how NWAC‘s CRGAT might be used to
revitalize methods and/or processes once used in traditional societies to make decisions, resolve
conflict, and reconcile differences. The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSS)
will be used as a case study in the application of NWAC‘s culturally relevant gendered application
tool.

Name: Gordon Pastion Canada

Affiliation: Dene Tha' First Nation
Title: Dene Tha' First Nation Traditional Games
Brief Description: Teach and share the traditional singing and traditional Handgames.

Name: Joan Miller Canada

Affiliation: Ganohkwasra Family Assault Support Services
Title: Gaining The Child's Perspective - A Spiritual Parenting Experience to Enhance Parent and Child
Relationships
Brief Description: This experiential workshop will give participants Cultural knowledge of Child Development and a
holistic understanding of The Child's Perspective. Parent/Child relationships will positively
become Enhanced.

Name: Leilani Kūpahu-Marino United States

Affiliation: Mālama o Na Keiki
Title: Unbroken Spirit - Indigenous Intuition at the Beginning of Life
Brief Description: Indigenous intuition can have a profound effect on all aspects of any society and perpetuate
cultural traditions to enhance healthier communities.

Name: Louise Hereruia Wall New Zealand

Affiliation: Children‘s Commissioner
Title: Manaakitia A Tatou Tamariki: Our Ancestors of the Future

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Brief Description: This presentation will outline a public sector response that contributes to indigenous capacity
building and resilience. How children are viewed, valued and provided with opportunities to
contribute to how societies and communities operate and function will also be explored.

Name: Neil Gillespie Australia

Affiliation: Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
Title: Family Violence Prevention
Brief Description: Family Violence is causing extreme harm in Aboriginal communities in Australia. The presentation
will detail how Australia is addressing family violence through its programs and how by engaging
men is reducing violence.

Name: Oscar Abdulla Australia

Affiliation: Riverland Community Health Service
Title: Our Health, Our Way - Chronic Condition Management in Aboriginal Communities
Brief Description: Chronic Condition Management from the perspective of the health service and from the Aboriginal
client community viewpoint. Working to narrowing the health gap through Aboriginal client voices
and health service collaboration.

Name: Paul Kealoha Blake United States

Affiliation: California Indian Storytelling Assn
Title: Indigenous Voices: Following Ancient Trade Routes for Global Community Building
Brief Description: This presentation will discuss the establishment of the League of Indigenous Voices to encourage
a dialogue between native communities by connecting the diverse histories and cultures, just as
the ancient trade routes did.

Name: Peggy F. Logan Canada

Affiliation: Ganohkwasra Family Assault Support Services
Title: Challenging Core Beliefs
Brief Description: Challenge yourself with experiential learning to change negativity and reoccurring patterns in your
life.Experience energy based techniques inclusive of Z Point, VAK (visual, auditory &
kinesthetic), chakra/meridian alignment, and muscle checking to reprogram your Great Mind from
negativity.

Name: Raven Sinclair Canada

Affiliation: Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre
Title: All My Relations ~ Native Transracial Adoption: A Critical Case study of Cultural Identity
Brief Description: This poster illustrates the findings of a doctoral research study that sought to explore the
experiences of Indigenous adults who had been adopted into non-Indigenous families during the
1960s and 70s in Canada; now referred to as the Sixties Scoop. The project revealed that the
source of problematic adoption outcomes is rooted not in cultural identity as identified in the
literature, but in racism.

Name: Tania S. Dopler Canada

Affiliation: Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy
Title: Reclaiming our place of Honour: Two-spirited people in Canada
Brief Description: This presentation will discuss the history and traditions of two-spirited people in Ontario, Canada.
We shall also explore finding our way forward, to reclaim our traditional place of honour in our
communities.

Name: Teresa Thomas Canada

Affiliation: GANOHKWASRA FAMILY ASSAUOT SUPPORT SERVICES
Title: OLD BINGO LADIES COME TO HAWAII LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE.
Brief Description: We have been presenting effective, motivational talks and short skits to a wide variety of people
using native humour and comedy for the past 5 years dressed as old grannies speaking with old
native accents and broken english.

Name: William Park United States

Affiliation: Papa Ola Lokahi
Title: Cultural Support for Native Veterans
Brief Description: The panel presentations will honor all native indigenous veterans sharing traditional cultural
healing solutions and approaches to their physical, mental and spiritual needs.

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Name: William Julius Mussell Canada
Affiliation: Native Mental Health Association of Canada
Title: Restoration of Relational Practices for Mental Health and Addiction Care
Brief Description: Our research calls for major changes in program design and service delivery, including
replacement of fragmented bureaucratic models of disease and ill-health with integrated culturally
grounded approaches and strategies so that health and healing become increasingly attainable
through application of relational practices.

Name: Zena Cole New Zealand

Affiliation: CCDHB NZ
Title: Forensic Psychiatric Practices- A Cultural Perspective
Brief Description: This presentation surrounds the experiences of 2 Maori clinicians and their support for Tangata
Whenua (people of the land) in Forensic Psychiatric care in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Traditional Medicine & Practices

Name: Carol Hopkins Canada
Affiliation: NNAPF
Title: From Prozac to Peanuts: Treatment offered at an Aboriginal youth solvent abuse treatment centre
relays the importance of culture
Brief Description: This paper examines the role of Aboriginal cultural beliefs, traditions and practices, of which
spirituality is a foundation, in the treatment of solvent abuse amongst Aboriginal youth. Using
storytelling—a traditional Aboriginal method of knowledge translation—experiences from
individuals working in a residential treatment centre relay the difficulties with applying strictly
individualistic, diagnosis-based responses to Aboriginal youth.

Name: Evelyn George Canada

Affiliation: Lake Babine Nation/Old Fort
Title: Natooten Songs in Healing Practices
Brief Description: Evelyn George will speak about the practices of the music and Doris Munger will do the songs
and the drumming with the dancers doing the dances.

Name: Frances Smiler-Edwards New Zealand

Affiliation: Te Roopu Huihuinga Hauora Trust
Title: X-Factors in the intergration of Traditional Maori Healing and Public Health Services
Brief Description: X-Factors in the intergration of Traditional Maori Healing and Public Health Services.

Name: RENE LAMOTHE Canada

Affiliation: Dehcho Health & Social Services Authority
Title: PROTOCOLS TO ACCESS TRADITIONAL MEDICINES AND PRACTICES
Brief Description: A presentation on the Dehcho Dene Protocols governing relationships with all sentient beings,
indigenous healing practitioners, medicines, and ceremonial practices.

Name: Sharon Kirkpatrick United States

Affiliation: HealthEd Connect
Title: A Children's Initiative in the Congo: Combining traditional and Western medicine
Brief Description: Five children in the Democratic Republic of Congo were the catalyst for the development of a
major program to treat leg ulcers. Traditional and Western medicine were successfully combined
to build a sustainable treatment program.

Name: Sharon Kaiulani Odom United States

Affiliation: Kamehameha Schools/Hui Mauli Ola
Title: Wahine Hapai: Hawaiian cultural traditions and practices of childbirth
Brief Description: This presentation explores the traditions and practices used in childbirth by Native Hawaiians.
This will be an experiential session with plants, foods, demonstrations and personal stories.

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Traditional Spirituality
Name: Herman Edward Canada
Affiliation:
Title: Healing The Spirit Through Traditional Native American Flute Music and Cultural Practices
Brief Description: The ―Healing The Spirit Through Traditional Native American Flute Music And Cultural Practices‖
presentation will demonstrate the healing rhythms of the Traditional Native American Flute.
Participants will have the opportunity to feel the healing rhythmic expression of music played on
the Traditional Native American Flute & Hand Drum.

Name: Ifetayo Ojelade United States

Affiliation: A Healing Paradigm, LLC
Title: USE OF IFA AS A MEANS OF ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG AFRICAN
DESCENDED CLIENTS
Brief Description: The purpose of this presentation is to describe the ways in which priests of the Yoruba-based Ifa
conceptualize and treat issues and concerns described by Western based approaches as mental
health problems. The conceptual, diagnostic, and treatment practices of this healing system are
reviewed.

Name: Kimberly Yellow Robe United States

Affiliation: Social Security Administration, San Francisco Region
Title: Honoring Our Ancestors, Honoring Our Elders, Honoring Our Heritage
Brief Description: Presenter will share the stories of the traditional Lakota Dresses and will exhibit the dresses for
Public Viewing. Presenter will also share Lakota Creation Stories.

Name: Mate-ki-tawhiti Chase New Zealand

Affiliation: Mahitahi Trust
Title: “MEETING SPIRITUAL REQUIREMENTS IN OUR HEALTH PRACTICES”
Brief Description: The practice of spirituality in the workplace and how it can be measured.

Violence
Name: Billie Allan Canada
Affiliation: Native Women's Association of Canada
Title: Honouring our Grandmothers: Addressing Senior Abuse among Aboriginal Women in Canada
Brief Description: This presentation provides an overview of a qualitative research project exploring senior abuse
among Aboriginal women in Canada. The project was undertaken by the Native Women's
Association of Canada, an organization committed to enhancing, promoting and fostering the
social, economic, cultural and political well-being of First Nations and Métis women within First
Nation, Métis and Canadian societies.

Name: Daphne Yarram Australia

Affiliation: Yoowinna Wurnalung Healing & Time Out Service
Title: The challenges of developing and implementing a community led approach to Indigenous family
violence at a grass roots level
Brief Description: This paper using the work of the Victorian Indigenous Family Violence Tskforce as a backdrop will
describe the journey undertaken by our East Gippsland communities, local service providers and
government in securing a culturally meaningful and responsive healing and time out service for
Indigenous people affected by violence. It will detail our achievements and challenges to building
and fostering good practices and relationships to support our communities needs.

Name: Jody Saxton-Barney Australia

Affiliation: Deaf Indigenous Community Consultant
Title: Beating the Drums of Silence: Inclusive practice & stronger partnerships responding to
Indigenous violence and disabilities
Brief Description: It is widely recognized that, Indigenous women with disabilities who experience violence face
additional barriers to disclosure and to seeking help, but little is known about their experiences of
violence and of their access to services. Partnerships are widely considered necessary for more
inclusive service delivery, this paper discusses the above issues in the context of Indigenous
victims of violence who have disabilities who demand that their needs be heard and met.

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Name: Kyllie Cripps Australia
Affiliation: Indigenous Law Centre
Title: Indigenous Sexual Assault Cases & the Australian Justice system
Brief Description: This paper explores the question: can the justice system in Australia appropriately respond to the
problem of Indigenous sexual abuse? It does so by reporting the quantitative and qualitative
results of an in-depth anaylsis of 100 sexual assault cases involving Indigenous women and
children as victims.

Name: Margaret Beattie Australia

Affiliation: Attorney-General's Department
Title: Our Health, Our Way - Chronic Condition Management in Aboriginal Communities
Brief Description: Chronic The Australian Government fund 31 Family Violence Prevention Legal Services to
provide services for Indigenous victims of familyviolence and sexual assault

Name: Moogie Patu Australia

Affiliation: Department of Health & Families - Northern Territory Government
Title: Aboriignal Family Violence - Measuring the level of Violence in our communities - normal for our
kids?
Brief Description: Working with all remote Aboriginal communities that are under the Australian Interventioniolence.

Name: Rogelio Sanchez United States

Affiliation: Asi Counseling & Professional Services Inc.
Title: The Four Elements To Change: Domestic Violence Intervention
Brief Description: The Four Elements: Situation, Affect, Consequence and Change are used in an interactive
exchange between the instructor and the client. It simplifies the arduous task of treatment or
educating the offender of abuse.

Youth Programs
Name: Catherine Gabriel-Ferland Canada
Affiliation:
Title: Museum of Colonization
Brief Description: This presentation will look at colonization and how critical historical events and present issues
threaten our culture. This interactive demonstration is intended to educate youth by a youth about
the importance of learning our culture and remaining rooted in culture.

Name: Craig Holloway Australia

Affiliation: YSAS/Ngwala Willumbong
Title: Development of the Koori Youth Alcohol & Drugs Healing Service
Brief Description: A presentation outlining the development and implementation of the Koori Youth Alcohol &
Drug Healing Service in Victoria, Australia. The KYA&DHS is being implemented by a
partnership between YSAS (a large non indigenous youth service) and Ngwala Willumbong Co-
operative (an Aboriginal Alcohol and Drug service)

Name: Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux Canada

Affiliation: Canadian Roots Exchange
Title: Shielded Minds: Seeking Truth and Reconciliation in Canada through the Canadian Roots Youth
Exchange
Brief Description: This presentation delves into the opportunity for cultural sharing and reconciliation through a
National Aboriginal - Non-Aboriginal youth exchange program. It will consist of clips from a
documentary produced about the program, and will highlight many of its benefits to aboriginal and
non-aboriginal youth.

Name: Dana Brunanski Canada

Affiliation:
Title: The importance of culture in counseling with street-involved Indigenous youth in Canada
Brief Description: This study aimed to explore Indigenous street youths‘ experiences with counseling, using an
Indigenizing narrative research methodology. A key lesson was the importance of cultural
connection for these youth: being disconnected from their Indigenous culture played a role in their

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from the street.

Name: Daniel McKennitt Canada

Affiliation: University of Alberta
Title: A Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Use Program for Aboriginal Youth
Brief Description: A Culturally Appropriate Tobacco Use Program for Aboriginal Youth utilizing the traditions and
ceremonial use of tobacco while at the same time understanding its' misuse and consequences.

Name: Donna-Jean Tairi New Zealand

Affiliation: Hapai Te Hauora Tapui Ltd. Maori Public Health
Title: Up n Coming – O Tatou Rangatira Mo Apopo
Brief Description: Up n Coming – O tatou rangatira mo apopo is a cultural specific programme which focuses on the
reduction of illicit and other drug related harm and the importance of cultural values. Designed by
our Up n Coming leaders—our young people, it incorporates activities that uplift the wairua
(spirits) of our young people.

Name: Dustin Rivers Canada

Affiliation: Siyaim Stamsh Canoe Family
Title: Youth Lead Leadership
Brief Description: Youth Lead Leadership involving families in Cultural teachings to be applied in everyday living

Name: Eteroma Junior Cummings New Zealand

Affiliation: Injury Prevention Network Aotearoa New Zealand
Title: Hupahupa e Tangi Kaara - Healing my spirit through drums and dance
Brief Description: The healing power of my ancestors cultural practises impacted on my personal spiritual healing

Name: Gayle Desmeules Canada

Affiliation: Native Counselling Services of Alberta
Title: Restorative Justice for Youth
Brief Description: This session will introduce the concept of Peacemaking Circles which offer youth an alternative
dispute resolution process to resolve conflict, versus traditional school discipline approaches or
going through the formal court system.

Name: Hinga Whiu New Zealand

Affiliation: Raukura Hauora o Tainui
Title: Te Karito Kura Wananga: An indigenous approach to health promotion and smoking prevention
amongst Maori.
Brief Description: Traditional maori knowledge & traditional & contemporary performing arts used in the
delivery of indigenous health promotion messages to maori youth,

Name: Jacob Gale Canada

Affiliation: NADACA
Title: Anger Management for Youth
Brief Description: My presentation is on Anger Management for youth. It teaches you the skills needed to express
your anger in a healthy way, with a balance of Native culture.

Name: Jason Kalaniuli Smith New Zealand

Affiliation: Mahitahi Trust
Title: HEALING THE “PROBLEMED” BY HEALING THE “PROBLEMATIC”.
Brief Description: How to initiate healing for families while working with Rangatahi Whaiora (youth experiencing
mental unwellness).

Name: Josephine Samuelu New Zealand

Affiliation: SPAN, New Zealand
Title: Pacific Youth - Smokefree Champions in New Zealand
Brief Description: Pacific Youth for youth smokefree programmes are effective when letting them develop and drive
their own initiatives with adult guidance. I will present my experiences and learnings from working
with Pacific young people who developed and led their own smokefree campaign in high school
to stop the harmful effects of smoking.

Name: Karen Schmidt Canada

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Affiliation: File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council
Title: Exploring Health Issues With Aboriginal Youth Through Drama
Brief Description: We engage in community-based, inter-disciplinary collaborative research that uses theatre
workshops, adapted for an Indigenous context, to help Indigenous youth examine choices that
affect their health.

Name: Ona Fiddler-Berteig Canada

Affiliation: Fort McKay First Nation
Title: Traditional Dancing and Youth: Providing tools and support for academic success and cultural
revival.
Brief Description: We would like to present our unique and successful high school program and showcase some of
our students who are earning a high school diploma supplemented by traditional dance
involvement.

Name: Ringi Hohepa New Zealand

Affiliation: TKKM o Te Rawhitiroa
Title: Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Rawhitiroa, Te Aho Matua and our successes.
Brief Description: An array of waiata (song), whakapapa (geneaology), electronic and handouts- with Nga Puhi and
Te Rawhitiroa flair.

Name: Robert Johnston United States

Affiliation: Native Wellness Institute
Title: Native Youth Leadership and Athletic Academy
Brief Description: Living by the Warriors Spirit- being positive, productive and proactive by bringing balance
between young people's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being will be the focus of
this interactive workshop. The model Native Youth Leadership and Athletic Academy will be
shared.

Name: Shawn P. Dolan Canada

Affiliation: Nechi Training, Research and Health Promotions
Title: Ditch the Spit - A Cultural Model promoting spit and commercial tobacco cessation amoungst our
aboriginal youth
Brief Description: This presentation will focus on Health Promotion and Harm Reduction through a cultural model
facilitated through the Nechi Institute for aboriginal youth by aboriginal youth. Readers will
become aware of how to facilitate dialogue with youth on: Traditional tobacco has a sacred
purpose, Commercial tobacco misuse, Smokeless tobacco use, Consequences of Spit Tobacco
Use, Smokeless Tobacco Advertising, and What influences youth to ―spit‖.

Name: Wanda Gabriel Canada

Affiliation: Kanehsatake Mohawk nation
Title: Tsi nòn:we tiotàhswawe- Back to the Source
Brief Description: In this session we will provide a venue through cultural ways that is open, non-judgemental
realxing and fun; to explore and identify issues in sexuality and promoting healthy sexuality as
part of healing.

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