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November
2017
SK First Nations Child Welfare Prevention Conference 2017 – A Huge Success!!
The SK First Nations Child Welfare Prevention Working Group and the SFNFCI organized the SK First Nations Child Welfare Prevention Conference 2017 on November 1, 2017 at The Glen at Crossmount, a picturesque landscap...
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October
2017
Things continue to progress with the Disabilty Research Partnership.
Read the most recent monthly update below:
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September
2017
Partnership and collaboration are foundational to the work of the Institute. This is particularly true in the area of research, which is a main component of SFNFCI. In this year’s Disability Research Project the Institute has partnered with two agencies – Meadow Lake Tribal Council Child and...
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September
2017
SFNFCI is pleased to be hosting Prevention Core Training. 22 days of training, 11 modules offered starting September 2017 through March 2018.
The training goals are: ...
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August
2017
This past March, SFNFCI’s first disability research project – the Athabasca Community Research Partnership, came to a close. This successful research initiative, undertaken in partnership with Athabasca Denesuline CFS has provided valuable insights into the challenges facing those dealing with...
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August
2017
As August comes to a close, the Disability Research Partnership project continues to move forward. The ‘data collection’ period will extend to the end of October as the research team continues to collect data using the Information Tool for case file reviews, and also through one-on-one intervi...
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July
2017
The Disability Project has officially entered the data collection phase with trips by researcher Raissa Graumans to both MLTCCFS (Meadow Lake Tribal Council Child and Family Services) and ACCFS (Agen...
04
July
2017
Discussions on Developing a Job Description Toolkit
Seventeen Finance and Human Resource Child and Family Services Agency workers from 10 different agencies and group homes met on June 28, 2017 to review and discuss a toolkit for creating an effective Job Description.
The day was opened with a pra...
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June
2017
As announced in a blog post last month, SFNFCI has partnered with Agency Chiefs Child and Family Services (ACCFS) and Meadow Lake Tribal Council CFS (MLTCCFS) on a new Disability Research Partnership.
Planning meetings with SFNFCI research staff and agency executive directors Treena Wynes (ACCFS) a...
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June
2017
The Institute has been steadily growing over the last few years, and as the number of staff and utilization of our classroom space increase, we’ve decided to develop and implement an Occupational Health and Safety Program.
As a First Nations business operating on-reserve, this decision was ma...
