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Welcome to the website of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Please note at this time, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation has committed all available funding to project grants and is therefore unable to consider new project applications. For more information, please see our Frequently Asked Questions or contact the AHF.To open many of the files available for download on this website, you will need to have a free software program called "Adobe Acrobat Reader" installed on your computer. For more information please see our Frequently Asked Questions.
AHF NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
» For the most recent news stories featuring the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, please click here. [Disclaimer: this link will take you to a Google News search. The Aboriginal Healing Foundation is not responsible for, nor does it endorse, materials posted on the Google News website.] |
Please note: as of Sept. 1, 2013, our new address will be 275 Slater Street, Suite 900, Ottawa, ON, K1P 5H9. The phone and fax numbers will remain the same.
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The latest Annual Report of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation is now available.
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The latest Corporate Plan of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation is now available. » Download the 2013 AHF Corporate Plan here. (Please contact the AHF office for a printed version of the corporate plan.)
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The Aboriginal Healing Foundation has committed $500,000 to produce a digital storytelling project. Read more.
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July 23, 2012 | "HEALING THROUGH CREATIVE ARTS"
What happens when art, music, dance, storytelling, and other creative arts become a part of community-based Aboriginal healing programs? This report describes the results of a study by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in the use of creative arts in healing programs. Download the PDF file here.
June 14, 2012 | "Northern students to learn residential school legacy" — CBC.
After a successful pilot program this spring, some high school students in Nunavut and the N.W.T. will learn the legacy of Canada’s residential school system as part of their fall curriculum .... Read more.
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Veteran broadcast journalist and host of The Next Chapter on CBC Radio, Shelagh Rogers, joins editors Mike DeGagné and Jonathan Dewar to present selected texts from Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s three-volume series Truth and Reconciliation. These texts reflect upon the lived and living experiences and legacies of residential schools and, more broadly, reconciliation in Canada. Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential Schools is now available. English, French and Inuktitut versions can be ordered directly from this website, free of charge. | Click here to download Shelagh Rogers' CBC interview with Mike DeGagné, broadcast June 4, 2012 on her program "The Next Chapter."
May 9, 2012 | "We are pleased to announce our 2012 Assembly of First Nations and Aboriginal Healing Foundation Golf Tournament, in support of the First Nations Rights Fund and the Legacy of Hope Foundation. Click here to download the tournament package (PDF file). Click here, or on the image above, to download the poster.
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"The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program provides mental health and emotional support services to former Indian Residential School students and their families before, during and after their participation in Settlement Agreement processes, including the Common Experience Payments and the Independent Assessment Process, and those participating in Truth and Reconciliation Commission events and Commemoration activities." Click here to view a list of Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program Regional Offices.
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Fact Sheet – Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement – March 28, 2012
Click here to read the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement fact sheet at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
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"Residential school education is needed" – March 16, 2012
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Interim Report [clicking on link will initiate download of the PDF report from external link at www.trc.ca].
2012-2015 Corporate Plan of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation
The latest Corporate Plan of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation is now
available for download or in hardcopy. Please contact the AHF office for
a printed version of the corporate plan.
» Download the PDF file in English
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"The Aboriginal Healing Foundation Board of Directors today announced that Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association and Algoma University will become the beneficiaries of the Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Memorial Resource Centre ...." » Download the PDF press release. » Visit the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre.
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About 100 people showed up to surprise Lac Seul’s Garnet Angeconeb at a celebratory gala in his honour June 11 in Sioux Lookout. The gala featured a number of presentations and quite a range of stories from family and friends. Many talked about his professional life in communications and his involvement in the residential school survivor movement ... more
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"Today, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation releases the third and final volume in a series dedicated to reconciliation. Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity presents essays by Canadians outside the traditional settler communities of English and French. President Georges Erasmus expressed his hope that "this broad, inclusive approach will draw Canadians of many backgrounds and circumstance into the current reconciliation discussion.” » Download the PDF press release. » Download the publication.
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March 25, 2011 – CBC: The Morning Edition
"The Aboriginal Healing Foundation is closing its doors. Find out what this means for residential school survivors." Interview with AHF Executive Director, Michael DeGagné. » Listen to the broadcast. (External link to CBC podcast.)
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March 28, 2011 at 7:00pm, Saint Paul University on 223 Main Street in Ottawa presents "From darkness of heart to the heart of forgiveness: Beyond sexual victimhood." AHF Board Member Garnet Angeconeb will join David Frank (Director, Ahousaht Holistic Centre) and Michael D. O’Brien (Internationally-acclaimed author and artist) for this event. There is no admission charge. » Download the poster. » Read the speech.
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MEDIA RELEASE – March 5, 2010
"No Funds Committed to Aboriginal Healing Foundation in Canada’s 2010 Federal Budget." Today, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) Board of Directors acknowledged Canada’s decision not to provide funds to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in the 2010 Federal Budget. This decision by the Federal Government means that a nation-wide network of one hundred and thirty-four community-based healing initiatives will no longer have AHF support after March 31, 2010, when current funds run out. » Download the PDF file
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Supported Through the Aboriginal Healing Foundation
The following report presents the findings of an evaluation undertaken by DPRA Canada in association with T.K Gussman Associates, on behalf of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, of the community-based initiatives of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) for the period April 2007 to May 2009. » Download the PDF file
2010-2015 Corporate Plan of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation
The latest Corporate Plan of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation is now available for download or in hardcopy. Please contact the AHF office for a printed version of the corporate plan.
» Download the PDF file in English » Download the PDF file in Inuktitut
NEW - Healing Words | Volume 6 Number 2
Healing Words is a free publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Dedicated exclusively to Indian residential school stories and to sharing resources for healing, this newsletter is your place to share your thoughts and experiences related to residential school — including hostels, industrial schools, boarding schools, and day schools. Send your stories, poems, letters, etc. to Healing Words . Add your name to our mailing list by e-mailing us your complete mailing address. PLEASE NOTE: this is not an electronic mailing list. If you'd rather view the newsletters electronically, visit out Newsletters page. » Download the PDF file
A Legacy of Excellence - The Institute On Governance Full Report
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The Institute On Governance (IOG) best practices study of the
Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s (AHF) Board
» Download the PDF file
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