In addition, MOHLTC has worked with Aboriginal organizations to develop a culturally sensitive and easily accessible network of services for Aboriginal communities.

The Government of Canada has demonstrated strong commitment to working with Aboriginal organizations and communities to address the disparity in health status between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people in Canada.

Since April 1999, the Aboriginal Human Resources Development Strategy (AHRDS), renewed until March 31, 2009, has been helping Aboriginal communities strengthen the ability of Aboriginal people to compete in the Canadian job market.

The Centre is preparing a short publication on the establishment of sentencing circles in aboriginal communities.

An Aboriginal Working Group was established in January 2003 to provide advice for successful implementation of the Provincial Diabetes Plan in First Nations, Aboriginal, Métis and Inuit communities.

Delivered through 80 Aboriginal Human Resources Development Agreement Holders, the Strategy has been designed with flexibility to meet the needs of individual Aboriginal communities and to respect the wide ranging cultural diversity of those communities while ensuring accountability measures are in place.

The Strategy is helping Aboriginal people increase their self sufficiency, build stronger communities, and develop long term employment.

Ten Aboriginal and remote communities have been provided this expanding service in the first two years of operation.

Over 1 million has been invested to better understand gambling in a cultural context within Aboriginal and ethnocultural communities.

200 million for an Aboriginal Health Transition Fund (AHTF) to enable governments and communities to devise new ways to integrate and adapt existing health services to better meet the needs of Aboriginal people.

In 2003 2004, Aboriginal organizations and agencies were increasingly involved in responding to child welfare concerns within their own communities.

The focus of the medical school is family medicine, which will include a concentration on the health needs of Aboriginal communities.

For the other Aboriginal communities, the federal government provides health and social services on reserves, either directly or through band councils.

Established in 1998, the Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI) supports community and home initiatives for the revitalization and maintenance of Aboriginal languages leading to an increased number of speakers, the expansion of the areas in which Aboriginal languages are spoken in communities and inter generational transmission of the languages.

In 2003 2004, the number of Aboriginal communities with Early Childhood Development programs increased to 37, compared to 25 in 2001 2002.

This Strategy is focused on working collaboratively with Aboriginal communities to foster a community development approach in the prevention of youth suicide.

Aboriginal people

Aboriginal people

Canadian Aboriginal

In 2003 2004, Alberta established a Mobile Diabetes Screening Initiative, which provides mobile screening for diabetes and related complications in off reserve and remote Aboriginal communities.

Twenty five per cent of Aboriginal Community Health Contributions had been transferred to communities, and 65 percent of First Nations were involved in the transfer process.

c. Aboriginal Hostels

This enhanced funding supports improvements in access to primary care, mental health and family healing services, and community outreach health promotion activities in Aboriginal communities throughout Ontario.

The Pacific and central regions are home to the indigenous communities of Subtiava, Monimbó, Matagalpa and Las Segovias, while the Caribbean region is home to aboriginal ethnic groups.

Health of Aboriginal peoples

Canada Aboriginal Peoples Roundtable

National Aboriginal Forestry Association

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Aboriginal Hostels provide 3,300 beds for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the country.

In February 2000, the Aboriginal Representative Workforce Council was established through the Aboriginal Employment Development Program.

As part of the Government of Canada's response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the AHRDS was given a five year, 1.6 billion budget to help Aboriginal communities and organizations take on the responsibility of developing and implementing their own employment and human resource programs.

Aboriginal land claims and agreements

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended

Canada had carried out extensive national consultations, particularly among women and men in agriculture and in the food, fisheries and forests sectors, and among concerned non governmental organizations and aboriginal communities.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

The PEI Department of Health and Social Services is gathering information relative to the Aboriginal Health Transition Fund, Aboriginal Blueprint process and the Aboriginal Human Resource initiative (see the Introduction to this report).

Three Aboriginal Artists' Roundtables have been held.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (Australia)

In addition, through an Aboriginal Family Violence Initiative, funding is provided to eight community based programs that assist urban Aboriginal families.

The high rate of Aboriginal death in custody is also due to the dramatically disproportionate representation of Aboriginal people in detention .

The Forum gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, in consultation with their own communities, the opportunity to develop and implement proactive, health promoting strategies in relation to cervical screening at the national level.