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New Workshop!
"Residential School Syndrome, its
Effects and Treatment".
"Is it a form of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD)specific to
residential schools, or is it part of a much larger syndrome
related to
cultural genocide? This one day workshop includes a history of
that genocide and a history of the Indian Residential Schools in Canada. Case
vignettes of residential school survivors who had received counselling from
Hawkeye Associates are dicussed along with second and third generation
effects. The workshop concludes with a holistic examination of treatment
options."
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Educational Assessments
Our Educational Testing Group offers ability and behavioral
/ emotional testing for students using proven standardized instruments.
Our culturally fair, comprehensive reports include recommendations
for both home and school.
Research and Writing
Our associates include researchers and journalists capable of handling
any written assignment. Photography and graphics work to increase
the attractiveness and "readability" of that important report is also
available.
Building the Child Welfare Continuum of Care
The social worker who developed the original Indian Child and Family
Service Agency, Tim Maloney, joins Lloyd Robertson and Albert Scott
in assessing ICFS service components, identifying resources to meet
gaps in service, and in providing training to professional
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Human Resource Development
Human resource development can benefit the individual, the family,
the employer and the community.
a) the individual:
- the
assessment of skills, aptitudes and interests.
- Career
guidance including goal setting and planning skill development
thru workshops, seminars and home study
b) the family
- assessment
of communication patterns, roles and family culture
- employee
and family assistance counselling
c) the workplace
assisting employers to
make better hiring decisions by matching candidates to job requirements
- stimulating
employee development by objectively assessing potential
- improved
business communication and team building
- conflict
resolution
- program and
project evaluations
d) the community
- using a community
development approach, facilitating consensus building to mobilize
community resources
- feasibility
studies
- needs assessments
and proposal development
e) workshops and seminars
in human development
Using adult education
methods, we offer seminars and workshops in the following areas:
team building
evaluation
self- esteem development
stress management
perception
communication skills
cultural awareness and application
using traditional strengths
problem solving
personnel management
conflict resolution
time management and organization
Residential School Healing
Featuring Albert Scott, Daniel Nippi and Lloyd Robertson these
healers and therapists deliver one and two day workshops to
survivors and their descendants. |
Affirmative and Cross-Cultural Action
"Affirmative
Action", "Employment Equity", "Contract Compliance"- - all have
to do bringing increased fairness and equality of opportunity to
the job market. Governments at all levels have recognized that certain
sectors of the population have not been receiving their share of
employment opportunities. They are prepared to do something about
it.
An affirmative action
program begins with a comprehensive study identifying the reasons
why minorities may be under represented in your business. Those
reasons often have to do with training, recruitment, and lack of
awareness on the part of the target population(s) and the employer.
The study also examines the employer's objectives and priorities.
It also examines government programs that may be of assistance in
overcoming the barriers to employment faced by many of those in
the target populations. The resulting plan of action will improve
employment ratios and will also, in most cases, increase productivity,
lower costs, and improve public relations.
The team approach guarantees
that all sectors are covered in the study and resultant recommendations.
The Affirmative Action Research Team includes people with expertise
in business management, labor relations, and minority or target
group populations.
Our team does more than
competent research. We provide affirmative action and cross-cultural
workshops with a viewpoint independent of government. We assist
in developing in-service training programs. We can handle special
recruitment needs for those programs finding difficulty attracting
applicants from target populations through normal channels. We can
advise on current provincial and federal human rights legislation.
We can assist in the overall supervision of your affirmative action
program.
Cross cultural and race
relations programs help prevent racial problems in the workplace
and the community. In Saskatchewan aboriginal people are the largest
racial minority facing such problems. Hawkeye Associates has developed
one and two day workshops that include a general understanding of
cross cultural relations with specific application to the aboriginal
community. Workshops can be tailored to the individual needs of
a business, school, union, professional association or community
group.
We are prepared to give
cross-cultural training in the following areas:
- perception
- communications
- prejudice
and discrimination
- conflict
resolution
- affirmative
action
- aboriginal
history and nations
- current socio-economic
and political conditions
- native self
identity and world view
- treaties,
Indian Affairs and the reserve system
- building
a cross cultural understanding cross-cultural counselling
It is estimated that
by the year 2005 50% of all the new entrants to the Saskatchewan
work force will be of aboriginal ancestry. The "two solitudes" -
aboriginal and non-aboriginal must come together for the enrichment
of our province and to ensure our economic future. We can help provide
the knowledge and the skills necessary for increased understanding
and communication.
Lifeskills and Lifeskills Coaches' Training
Lifeskills has become an integral part of skills training since its
inception in 1972. The Lifeskills curriculum has been adapted to assist
various populations including inmates, welfare recipients, prospective
university students, mentally handicapped, long term unemployed, physically
handicapped, new immigrants, visible minorities and others to develop
positive approaches to problems using personal strengths and community
resources. Lifeskills has been defined as "problem solving skills
appropriately applied" and all of us can improve those skills.
We can customize the lifeskills curricula to your program needs
maximizing participant learning and program effectiveness. We also
offer trained, experienced lifeskills coaches.
The lifeskills course is based on experiential learning. Students
are given exercises and assignments that will generate feelings
which are then used in the learning process. The learning that takes
place is, therefore, at two levels -- cognitive and affective. Lifeskills
is based on psychological models developed by Adler, Rogers, Glasser
and others. The lifeskills coaches' training delivered by Hawkeye
Associates includes reference to the contribution and application
of these thinkers providing a link between the lifeskills program
and group counselling. The lifeskills coaches' training course will
use aboriginal specific cross-cultural material developed by Hawkeye
Associates.
Students who successfully complete the lifeskills training course
will be competent to use the lifeskills approach with the following
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