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Themes, Trends, Gaps and Prospects UAKN Prairie Regional Research Final Report The Urban Aboriginal Service Delivery Landscape: Themes, Trends, Gaps and Prospects UAKN Prairie Regional Research Centre Authors and Affiliations: Isobel M. Findlay, Jania Chilima, Tamara Chambers-Richards, Vincent Bruni-Bossio, Dana Carrière, and William Rowluck, Community-University Institute for Social Research, University of Saskatchewan 1 ABSTRACT In the context of an increasingly urbanized and mobile population of Aboriginal people in Canada, an “invisible infrastructure” of urban Aboriginal service delivery organizations has emerged to meet identified needs in such sectors as social services, language and culture, economic development, employment, education, and health. Yet Aboriginal people face gaps and lags in service delivery because of a range of systemic and other factors related to the history of colonization and ongoing marginalization. This research project, the Saskatchewan portion of phase two of a larger Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network national study, examines this organizational infrastructure to identify gaps or areas requiring attention or development. The first phase developed a national inventory of urban Aboriginal organizations and examined how those organizations facilitated participation in the Canadian economy. This second phase of regional projects led by UAKN research centres was guided by these themes: • Improving urban Aboriginal economic participation • Improving services in underserviced areas • Facilitating improved relationships between urban Aboriginal organizations, non- Aboriginal organizations, and First Nations, Métis, Inuit organizations To support consistency and comparability across regions, the research study is guided by this standardized set of questions: • What services are being provided by urban Aboriginal organizations? • What services are being provided by which urban Aboriginal service organizations? Who are the target service population? Are there gaps in services or target groups? • Which of these services enhance economic participation of urban Aboriginal people? How? • What are three priority areas for service delivery? How were these priorities determined? How are these priorities met? • What are the best practices/lessons learned on how services are designed and delivered that have emerged over the last decade? • What do these organizations perceive as being facilitating factors, and threats, to their sustainability? Based on a literature review and 35 interviews with urban Aboriginal service delivery organizations across all treaty territories and 11 of 13 health regions in Saskatchewan, this report discusses findings on opportunities and challenges associated with service delivery to urban Aboriginal peoples in Saskatchewan, many of which confirm themes, trends, and challenges observed elsewhere in Canada. The interviewed organizations face unusual burdens of not only meeting diverse Aboriginal community needs but also navigating cultural expectations of their own communities and mainstream society and, in the absence of federal and provincial government leadership, educating newcomers and mainstream Canadians on Aboriginal and treaty rights. In fulfilling these tasks, organizations can depend on the passion and commitment of staff, boards, chief and council, and other leadership to Aboriginal control of services, a 2 proven facilitator of urban Aboriginal economic participation, to education and cultural transfer of knowledge for sustainability and social medicine. Quality of life improvement emerged as an overarching theme related to everything from food security to meeting the physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual needs of community members. At the organizational level this is expresses by interrelated goals of equity in education, economics, and health with each organization focusing on a different balance. Although cultural services were viewed as essential to quality of life, too often they were sacrificed to reductive views of value. Common sense views of the economic bottom line, or employment numbers, as the primary and even only indicator of how communities are faring, however well intentioned, violate traditional principles of community organization and self- sustainment. Culture is no less necessary than food on the table and opportunity at hand. Services that enhance economic participation of urban Aboriginal people include business development, Aboriginal-controlled organizations, sports and culture, as well as education and skills training to reduce dependency, build on capacities, and help Aboriginal youth understand who they are so they can effectively participate in the workforce. To reach their goals, urban Aboriginal organizations continue to support the journey toward self- determination, assessing and addressing needs, while focusing on the long term, understanding their place in the story of self-determination and celebrating their commitment and ability to support future generations. While there are limited funding opportunities from the governments and funding agencies to institute services to meet levels of quality of life enjoyed by non-Aboriginal peoples, there are opportunities for re-imagining and reorienting the many and complex urban Aboriginal organizations that offer services to an ever-growing population. The report discusses issues of access, ongoing barriers, and initiatives to give urban Aboriginal people voice and choice, visibility and authority, to draw on networks and partnerships and to stretch dollars to serve their own communities, to close educational and employment gaps, to include all treaty people, and to build bridges across communities to the benefit of all Canadians. 3 INTRODUCTION Since the end of World War II, Aboriginal people in Canada have become increasingly urbanized while maintaining links with rural and reserve settings. An “invisible infrastructure” of urban Aboriginal service delivery organizations has emerged in response to the identified needs of this urban population (Newhouse, 2004) extending to such sectors as social services, language and culture, economic development, education, art, and health. Yet Aboriginal people face many gaps and lags in service delivery because of a range of systemic and other factors related to the history of colonization and ongoing marginalization. This research project, the Saskatchewan portion of phase two of a larger Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network national study, examines this organizational infrastructure and develops an inventory of organizations and their service areas in order to identify gaps or areas in need of additional attention or development. The first phase developed a national inventory of urban Aboriginal organizations and examined how those organizations facilitated participation in the Canadian economy. The second phase of regional projects identified through discussions of the inventory by regional UAKN research centres was guided by these themes: • Improving urban Aboriginal economic participation • Improving services in underserviced areas • Facilitating improved relationships between urban Aboriginal organizations, non- Aboriginal organizations, and First Nations, Métis, Inuit organizations The research study is also guided by these questions: • What services are being provided by urban Aboriginal organizations? • What services are being provided by which urban Aboriginal service organizations? Who are the target service population? Are there gaps in services or target groups? • Which of these services enhance economic participation of urban Aboriginal people? How? • What are three priority areas for service delivery? How were these priorities determined? How are these priorities met? • What are the best practices/lessons learned on how services are designed and delivered that have emerged over the last decade? • What do these organizations perceive as being facilitating factors, and threats, to their sustainability? Building on this research base, this report reviews the literature, elaborates our methods, and discusses findings, especially themes and trends associated with Aboriginal service delivery organizations in Saskatchewan, exploring disparities in services delivered to urban Aboriginal peoples, how they may have been minimized, and the extent to which opportunities have been realized by Aboriginal service organizations and their partners. By way of conclusion, we consider prospects for service delivery organizations in Saskatchewan. 4 LITERATURE REVIEW I. The Urban Aboriginal Service Delivery Landscape: Background Increasingly Aboriginal people (defined constitutionally as First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples) live off reserve (DeVerteuil & Wilson, 2010; Peters, 2005, 2011; Prairie Wild Consulting, 2014) in a movement that was recognized as early as the end of World War II when Aboriginal-identifying peoples started to form communities in urban areas (Newhouse, 2003; Peters, 2011). Nationwide, as of 2011, there were 1.17 million Aboriginal people, of which 54% lived off reserve (Snyder & Wilson, 2012). A similar trend is observed in Saskatchewan whereby at the current time, 15.6% of the total population identify as Aboriginal peoples and increasingly live in the cities and urban settings (Prairie Wild Consulting, 2014). An additional and unique situation characterizes the majority of the people who identify as Aboriginal who live in urban settings: the high level of flux and movement between reserve and off reserve (rural and urban), which makes them highly mobile and results in high rates of population
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