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Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women’s Healing From Drug Abuse

Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women’s Healing From Drug Abuse. Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The 6 th Gathering. Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project (#74289). AIM.

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Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women’s Healing From Drug Abuse

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  1. Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women’s Healing From Drug Abuse Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The 6th Gathering Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project (#74289)

  2. AIM To share information on how women’s voices are central to a research project, and how they, in turn, inform about First Nations, Métis and Inuit women’s healing from substance abuse.

  3. Hearing women’s voices in…

  4. Aboriginal Women Drug Users in Conflict with the Law: A Study of the Role of Self-Identity in the Healing Journey What are the experiential paths of Aboriginal women in conflict with the law in the creation and recreation of their self-identity, accounting for associated role expectations and stigma, while in treatment for illicit drug use (defined as the healing journey)? And how do treatment program workers influence women’s constitution and reconstitution of their self-identity and what is the relation to their healing?

  5. Project Background • Research partnership began in 2005: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) Carleton University & University of Saskatchewan National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation (NNAPF) • Applied Aboriginal methodology and a community-based participatory approach to research • Mainly First Nations as well as some Métis and Inuit women shared their stories

  6. Doing Research by, for and in balance with

  7. HEARING OUR VOICE IN DEVELOPING THE RESEARCH

  8. HEARING OUR VOICE IN DOING THE RESEARCH

  9. THE HEALING JOURNEY Identity Transformation + Cultural Understanding = The Healing Journey

  10. HEARING OUR VOICE IN SHARING THE RESEARCH

  11. FROM STILETTOS TO MOCCASINS I survived through the pain Many emotions like waves Laughing and crying again and again Honesty, strength, friends and devotion Showering gifts of hope to reclaim Walking the streets dragging my heart Wandering with my head held down in shame When and how did my family fall apart Who am I, what is my name? BRIDGE: Surviving the street lost and alone I started a journey to find my way home CHORUS: From stilettos to moccasins Our spirit dances within On our way to resolution We find our peace And this is who I am Broken barriers and new discoveries My spirit I now reclaim Coming home to who I am Taking honour in my name No longer a prisoner lost in this world Look within my shell To find that pearl CHORUS: From stilettos to moccasins Our spirit dances within On our way to resolution We find our peace And this is who I am

  12. From Stilettos to Moccasins A video of the healing journey

  13. Workshop AIMS 1) To raise awareness about the role of identity and stigma in the healing journeys of Aboriginal women in treatment for drug abuse.2)  To offer hope and inspiration gathered from over 100 Aboriginal women in substance abuse treatment who shared their healing journeys.3)   To learn from one another.

  14. To contact our team Colleen Anne DellDepartment of Sociology & School of Public Health1015 Arts Building, 9 Campus DriveSaskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 CanadaTel: 306- 966-5912Email: colleen.dell@usask.ca or fromstilettostomoccasins@live.comWebsite: http://www.addictionresearchchair.comClick on ‘creating knowledge’ and then ‘national’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QRb8wA2iHs

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