Projects
Project Announcement: Lii Michif Niyannan | We Are Métis
Social Work project to shed light on Canada’s untold Métis story (Dec 2019)
The project will be led by Jeannine Carriere, a professor and accomplished researcher with the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria for the past 15 years. Award-winning Métis filmmaker and professor Emeritus in Gender Studies, Christine Welsh, is co-producer for the film and co-lead on this important endeavor. Highly accomplished Social Work graduate student, Trish Pal, has also agreed to work on the project as a research assistant. Pal is a Two-Spirit Metis person who won the Dean’s Award for Indigenous Graduate Students along with a faculty academic achievement award.
Report Release - Fostering Success: Improving Educational Outcomes for Youth in/from Care
Research Report - Fostering Success
Project Announcement:
Mapping Approaches to Improve Educational Outcomes for Youth from Care
An article focussing on youth from care and informal support
New "Brief Report" Series Focussing on Youth from Care
Someone's Mother, Sister or Daughter: Street Sex Workers, Their Families and Transitioning Out of Street Sex Work
Someone's Mother, Sister or Daughter: Street Sex Workers, Their Families and Transitioning Out of Street Sex Work
Research Team - Susan Strega (Principal Investigator), Leslie Brown, Sinead Charbonneau, Sohki Aski Esquao (Jeannine Carriere), Caitlin Janzen, and Qwul'sih'yah'maht (Robina Thomas)
Report Release - An Assessment of Youth Homelessness Prevention:
Avoiding the Precipice - Full Report
Avoiding the Precipice - Evaluation Summary
Project Proposal Summary: The Link: An Assessment of Youth Homelessness Prevention
The Principal Researcher for this study is Dr. Deborah Rutman. Co-‐Principal Researchers are Carol Hubberstey and Sharon Hume. Project partners: Aunt Leah’s Place Society and the School of Social Work, University of Victoria.
Substance Using Women with FASD and FASD Prevention:
The Principal Researcher for this study is Dr. Deborah Rutman. Project partners: BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, the Aurora Centre, Inter Tribal Health Association, Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria FASD Community Circle, Canadian National Coalition of Experiential Women, and PEERS Victoria.
- Newsletter 21 February 2011
- Women With FASD
- Substance Using Women with FASD - Voices of Women Report
- Substance Using Women with FASD - Service Providers' Perspectives Report
- Substance Using Women with FASD - Literature Review
Deborah Rutman (principal investigator) with Corey La Berge, & Donna Wheway (FAS/E Support Network of BC)
Citizenship rights of sexually exploited children: self, dignity, power
Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha, principal investigator
Denied assistance: closing the front door on welfare
Bruce Wallace, principal investigator. Tim Richards, Marge Reitsma-Street, and Seth Klein.
Fathering within child welfare
Leslie Brown, principal investigator. Marilyn Callahan, Susan Strega, Lena Dominelli, and Chris Walmsley.
Grandmothers caring for their grandchildren research project
Leslie Brown, Barb Whittington, Pat MacKenzie, Marilyn Callahan, Gayle Ployer.
Parenting with FASD: challenges, strategies and support issues
Deborah Rutman, principal investigator. Corey La Berge & Donna Wheway (FAS/E Support Network of BC)
The pedagogy of anti-oppression
Donna Jeffery
Jo-Anne Lee, principal investigator. Xiaobei Chen and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, co-investigators.
Promoting positive outcomes for youth from care
Deborah Rutman, Ph.D. & Carol Hubberstey, M.A., co-principal researchers. April Barlow & Erinn Brown (research assistants / peer support workers).
- When youth age out of care - a report on baseline findings
- When youth age out of care: bulletin of time 2 findings
- When youth age: where to from there? final report
Supporting grandmothers raising grandchildren
Project team: Barbara Whittington (principal investigator, UVic), Leslie Brown & Patricia MacKenzie (UVic), Tina Pearson (Parent Support Services), David Burns (Association of Family Serving Agencies) and Marion Gracey (project coordinator).
- Supporting grandparents raising grandchildren resource booklet - a work in progress (2nd edition, 2007)
- Resource booklet letter to grandparents
Supporting young people's transition from government care
Deborah Rutman & Carol Hubberstey, co-principal investigators. April Barlow & Erinn Brown.
"Stepping stones: life skills workshops for youth leaving care - a facilitator's guide" is a resource produced through this project. It contains numerous activities and skill-building exercises specifically geared to assisting youth in their transition from care.
- Stage one report
- Stage two report
- Stepping stones: life skills workshops for youth leaving care - a facilitator's guide
Wedge provisioning project: provisioning, women and community
Marge Reitsma-Street, principal investigator. Sheila Neysmith, Elaine Porter, and Stephanie Baker-Collins, co-invesitgators
The experiences of students with children at the University of Victoria. A report prepared by Barbara Whittington, Martha McAlister, Helvi Apted & Michelle Dale, with support from the Equity & Human Rights Office, February, 2004.
Dr. Amy Salmon, Women’s Health Research Institute
Dr. Deborah Rutman, Research Initiatives for Social Change, School of Social Work