Aboriginal Healing Foundation
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) is an Aboriginal managed, non-profit, national corporation based in Ottawa. Funded by a one time government grant of $350 million dollars, their mandate was to encourage and support community based Aboriginal healing initiatives to deal with the legacy of physical and sexual abuse suffered in Canada’s Indian Residential School System and the multigenerational impacts. This organization is necessary due to the institutional abuses suffered which has resulted in lateral violence, suicide, depression, poverty, alcoholism, lack of parenting skills, and difficulty maintaining healthy relationships. They hope that in the future these effects will have been meaningfully resolved and that Aboriginal people can return to healthy lifestyles for themselves and their future generations.
Links available include:
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada
AHF logo [Online Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved November 17, 2009, from AHF website. http://www.ahf.ca/announcements
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