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Item Promoting equity and dignity for Aboriginal children in Canada(Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2008) Ball, JessicaIn 1989, Canada played a prominent role in helping the international community draft the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Eighteen years after Canada ratified the UNCRC, a 2007 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report argued that relative to other nations on the list of the world’s 21 richest countries, Canada has been slow to honour its commitment to uphold these rights and ensure the well-being of children (Canada ranked 12th on the list, and the United Kingdom and the United States ranked 20th and 21st, respectively). The report singled out the plight of Aboriginal children as especially desperate, noting that in some communities they lack access to adequate housing and education, and even clean water (UNICEF 2007).2 Although the Government of Canada promised to improve conditions in its 1997 Gathering Strength: Canada’s Aboriginal Action Plan (Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development 1997), there is still no legal framework and no independent national children’s commissioner to monitor implementation of children’s rights federally and to coordinate federal, provincial and territorial policies that affect children. These needed strategies were recommended in a 2007 Senate report (Canada, Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights 2007).Item Early childhood care and development programs as hook and hub for community development: Promising practices in First Nations(University of Victoria, 2004) Ball, JessicaThis report summarizes key findings of a year-long investigation into the steps taken by Lil’wat Nation, Tl’azt’en Nation, and six of the First Nations in the Treaty 8 Tribal Association to strengthen their capacity to provide early childhood care and development programs, in ways that reinforce their cultures and languages and promote the well-being of young children and their parents or other caregivers.Item Implications of First Nations English dialects for supporting children's language development(2005) Ball, Jessica; Bernhardt, Barbara; Deby, JeffThis project addresses growing concern in Aboriginal Early Childhood Care and Development (AECCD) and in education that there is a lack of knowledge about culturally appropriate milestones to inform programs of support, screening, and early intervention for First Nations children's English language development. Some child care practitioners, educators, speech language pathologists, and First Nations leaders suggest that First Nations children may be disproportionately misdiagnosed with language impairments. There is speculation that this problem may be due in part to dialect difference rather than speech-language deficit or delay. Language and learning problems may be exacerbated by a mismatch in the communicative norms valued at home and at school.Item Policies and practises affecting Aboriginal fathers' involvement with their children(Thompson Educational Publishing Inc., 2006) Ball, Jessica; George, RonThis paper offers Aboriginal fathers' perspectives on how policies and practices of federal and provincial agencies and in-community programs affect their involvement with their children.Item Fathering in the shadows: Indigenous fathers and Canada's colonial legacies(Sage, 2009-07) Ball, JessicaAn inaugural study of Indigenous fathers' involvement in Canada conceptualized a temporal horizon within which to situate challenges and opportunities for Indigenous father's involvement in caring for children following decades of colonial interventions that have diminished Indigenous men's roles. Through five community-university partnerships, conversational interviews were held with 80 First Nations and Métis fathers in British Columbia, Canada. Using a grounded theory approach, a conceptual model was constructed identifying six key ecological and psychological factors that combine to account for Indigenous men's experiences of fatherhood: personal wellness; learning fathering; socio-economic inclusion; social support; legislative and policy support; and cultural continuity. Elements within these domains, such as childhood experience of attachment and exposure to father role models, social capital, and generativity have been addressed in other models and research about fathers' involvement. Indigenous fathers' accounts additionally bring into focus systemic barriers to positive fathers' involvement, including socioeconomic exclusion due to failures of the educational system, ongoing colonization through Canada's Indian Act, and mother-centrism in parenting programs and child welfare practices. Policy and program reforms are suggested that could increase Indigenous fathers' positive and sustained engagement with their children.Item Background document for the University of Victoria Task Force on Civic Engagement(University of Victoria, 2007-09-15) Dragne, CorneliaThe purpose of the report is to identify and review the best strategies used by other universities to coordinate their civic/community engagement practices, as they are reflected in the literature dedicated to the topic. The focus of the report is on North American universities. The report seeks to: 1)present a brief background on university-community engagement 2)identify universities that promote civic/community engagement, case studies of coordinating models in place 3)identify evaluation methodologies 4)identify principles and structures that could serve as a model for UVic, lessons learned and recommendations in the literatureItem Higher education, community engagement and the world we want: A policy brief to the World Conference on Higher Education(2009-06) Global Alliance on Community Engaged ResearchAt this critical time in human and sustainable development for the world, it is imperative that we harness the potential of community higher education partnerships to inform progress. There is a large aggregate trend to unite civil society and higher education institutions and networks in common efforts to co-create knowledge, mobilize it to inform practice and policy, and enhance the social, economic and environmental conditions of people, communities, nations and the world. However, these efforts are fragmented and face many unnecessary barriers. We therefore propose an Action Plan for University-Community Engagement for Societal Change and Development, one that unleashes the resources of higher education and government, in collaboration with civil society and its socio-economic development actors to create the sustainable world we want.Item The funding and development of community university research partnerships in Canada: Evidence-based investment in knowledge, engaged scholarship, innovation and action for Canada's future(OCBR, University of Victoria; Community Based Research Canada, 2009-10) Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria; Community Based Research CanadaThe purpose of this report is to map out the sources and types of funding that have been created to support community university research partnerships, describe the current state of development of arrangements between public post secondary institutions and community organizations, to collaborate in research and knowledge mobilization, and suggest some conclusions as to how effective partnership work of this kind might be strengthened in the future.Item University-community partnerships: Connecting for change(The Community-University Exposition 2008, 2008)With many of the social, environmental, health and economic issues facing us today we need research that engages those who are working on the front lines. Issues in Victoria, such as homelessness or climate change, are best understood and acted upon when those working to find solutions are driving the research.Item Future of food on Vancouver Island(2012-02-20) Geggie, LindaThis presentation discusses the current situation in our food system, the global food economy, local food production capacity on Vancouver Island and re-localization efforts.Item Institutional purchasing – Growing research into action: Creating a sustainable food system on Vancouver Island(2012-03-20) Magzul, LorenzoThis presentation was delivered as part of a four week evening course, February 2012, Growing Research into Action: Creating a Sustainable Food System on Vancouver Island. It discusses the decision of the University of Victoria to purchase local food from local farmers and merchants.Item Indigenous food systems – Growing research into action: Creating a sustainable food system on Vancouver Island(2012-03-20) Magzul, LorenzoThis presentation was delivered as part of a four week evening course, February 2012, Growing Research into Action: Creating a Sustainable Food System on Vancouver Island. It covers the current global food system and the indigenous food system and various traditional foods of the indigenous people of Vancouver Island.Item Agriculture and climate change – Growing research into action: Creating a sustainable food system on Vancouver Island(2012-03-20) Magzul, LorenzoThis presentation was delivered as part of a four week evening course, February 2012, Growing Research into Action: Creating a Sustainable Food System on Vancouver Island. It posed the question: What do we know about how climate change will impact agriculture on Vancouver Island, and what are we doing about it.Item Local Food Project: Strategies for increasing food security on Vancouver Island(Office of Community Based Research, University of Victoria, 2011-08) Vancouver Island Community Research Allicance (VICRA); Office of Community Based Research (OCBR)This report highlights the results of Vancouver Island Community Research Alliance's (VICRA) Local Food Project. The project's goal is to provide current evidence, drawn from community expertise and peer-reviewed research related to food security on Vancouver Island, to engage in strategic collaborative work, and inform opportunities for future action. The report summarizes research carried out by student interns from post-secondary institutions on Vancouver Island, with oversight provided by advisory committees comprised of both community members and academics. Each strategy area had its own unique approach and process and this is reflected in the findings.Item Resources Available at the UNESCO Chair Website(2015-06-05) Foulkes, TabithaItem Towards Participatory Local Governance: Assessing the Transformative Possibilities.(Institute of Development Studies, 2003) Gaventa, JohnFor the last twenty years, the concept of ‘participation’ has been widely used in the discourse of development. For much of this period, the concept has referred to participation in the social arena, in the ‘community’ or in development projects. Increasingly, however, the concept of participation is being related to rights of citizenship and to democratic governance. Nowhere is the intersection of concepts of community participation and citizenship seen more clearly than in the multitude of programmes for decentralised governance that are found in both Southern and Northern countries. Linking citizen participation to the state at this local or grassroots level raises fundamental and normative questions about the nature of democracy and about the skills and strategies for achieving it. The literature is full of debates on the meanings of citizenship and of participation, on the role and relevance of 'the local', especially in the context of globalisation, and of course on the problem of governance itself. In this paper, I pose six challenges which point to the importance and potential for assessing the transformative possibilities of citizen engagement with local governance.Item Global trends in training community-based research in higher education institutions and civil society organizations(UNESCO Chair in Community-based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, 2015-07) Lepore, WalterItem Code of Practice For the Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Reseach Centre(Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Research Centre, 2007-10-02)Item Modules méthodologiques et pédagogiques de Développement Participatif de l’Innovation.(Promouvoir l’Expérimentation et l’Innovation Paysannes au Sahel (PROFEIS), 2014-12) Diop, Jean-Marie LaïtyItem Strengthening Community University Research Partnerships: Global Perspectives(University of Victoria and PRIA, 2015-08) Hall, Budd; Tandon, Rajesh; Tremblay, Crystal