An analysis of the systemic aspects of rights training for people with intellectual disabilities

Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) as a group have been subject to abuse. Individuals with ID need to be made aware of their rights. The 3Rs: Rights, Respect and Responsibility Human Rights Project is promoting rights awareness in individuals with ID, their caregivers and family members. To be effeCtive, abuse prevention must include support from the whole organization and its processes. This research evaluated the impact of the 3Rs initiative on the organization. It focused particularly on descriptions of organizational change perceived by full-time staff and managers in response to the initiation of the 3Rs Project. Behavioural interviews were conducted and a thematic analysis was used to describe changes in the organizational culture and behavioural mechanisms maintaining these changes. Systemic barriers to change were also explored. The results indicate that the Association is effectively implementing and supporting the rights-based philosophy.

Three people on the lawn near Memorial Hall, Chapman College, Orange, California

Three people are sitting on the lawn near Memorial Hall, Chapman College, Orange, California.

An address, to the people of New-England

A vindication of Jefferson's administration.

A national monument to Laura Secord : why it should be erected, an appeal to the people of Canada

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The Transfer of Wilderness Trips to the Everyday Lives of Young People: A Case Study

There has been considerable research that investigates the outcomes, benefits, and perceptions of wilderness trip experiences. However, the transfer of learning from a wilderness trip to the everyday lives of youth trip participants, that has deliberately explored post-trip experience, is minimal. Using a qualitative multi-case study approach, methods of data collection included interviews with six youth program participants, six parents/legal guardians, and three program staff, as well as document solicitation. Reports from the participants suggested that the key content transferred to a post-wilderness trip context were interpersonal skills; life skills; and instances of personal growth. Participants applied their learning content from the wilderness trip to school; sports; community and international volunteering; work and career aspirations; family and home life; and social life contexts. Implications for adventure programming and curriculum design, instruction, and transfer are considered.

A Home at School: Building Stronger Indigenous People through Cultural Resurgence in an Urban Ontario Public School Context.

In this thesis, I work through the educational narratives of young Aboriginal women and men as I explore the relationship between cultural programming and student engagement. My analysis is structured through a collaborative Indigenous research project. My overarching task is to explore how a cultural support program, the Native Youth Advancement with Education Hamilton (NYA WEH) Program, offered at Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School, located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, attempts to re-imagine Aboriginal education in ways that directly challenge the residential school legacy. In particular, I work to illuminate how particular forms of Aboriginal education are connected to the graduation rates of Aboriginal youth. I argue that the ways in which the NYA WEH Program navigates Native Studies curriculum, relationships, and notions of culture and tradition are significant to the engagement of Aboriginal youth. This research develops theoretical connections between the contemporary experience of Aboriginal social inequality and educational initiatives which attempt to reverse that legacy. By placing the NYA WEH Program narratives side-by-side with literature supporting Aboriginal education for Self-determination, I work to learn how to best support and encourage Aboriginal student engagement in secondary schools across Ontario.

Investigation of Changes in Prescribed and Voluntary Job Roles in Community Service Delivery for People who have Intellectual Disabilities after the Implementation of the 3 Rs; Rights, Respect and Responsibility Project

The purpose of this thesis was to explore whether there is change in organizational citizenship behaviours in community agency staff following agency adoption of a rights - based service philosophy. Four community agency support staff were interviewed to investigate how residential care providers in services for persons who have intellectual disabilities describe their voluntary job related behaviours following training about human rights. The major finding was that the participants were actively engaged in displaying civic virtue, courtesy, and altruism discretionary behaviours. There was evidence of a post rights training shift in communication patterns with support staff reporting that they used language that prom,oted and advocated for human rights, and reported increased communication exchanges among persons supported by the agency, support staff and managers. Participants also suggested that the individuals they support asserted their rights more frequently and they were more active in their own life choices following rights training.

Broadside of a requisition to W. Woodruff from William W. Ball, John McBride, Robert N. Ball, W. Servos, Joseph Wynn and 150 other people for Mr. Woodruff to run as a Representative in Parliament

Broadside, 45 cm. x 30 cm. of a requisition to W. Woodruff from William W. Ball, John McBride, Robert N. Ball, W. Servos, Joseph Wynn and 150 other people for Mr. Woodruff to run as a Representative in Parliament. This is followed by a positive, and humble response from Mr. Woodruff, June 3, 1856.

Face to face with the mexicans : the domestic life, educational, social, and bussines ways statesmanship and literature, legendary and general history of the mexicana people.

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People you know by George Ade; illus. by John T. McCutcheon and others

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Expenditures on Lotteries: What Do People Say and Wht They Do? a Econometric Analysis.

Underdeclarations Are Typical When Alcohol, Tobacco and Gambling Consumptions Are Questioned in Surveys. Recent Surveys on Expenditures on Lotteries Have Similar Problems: the Declared Expenditures Equal Between 60 to 65 Percent of the Revenues of the Various State-Run Lottery Entreprises. by Using the Relatively Accurate Data on the Revenue Side of This Industry One Can Deal with the Problem of Underdeclarations of Consumption Patterns in Suveys and Obtain Better Income Elasticity Estimates. the Statistical Analysis Permits to Test Specific Hypotheses on a Lottery Model Developed by Brenner, and Suggests Broader Implications Both for Future Econometric Analysis and the Confidence One Gives to Elasticity Estimates Derived From Aggregate Sectorial Data for All Consumption Expenditures.

How do Young People Choose College Majors?

Previous studies on the determinants of the choice of college major have assumed a constant probability of success across majors or a constant earnings stream across majors. Our model disregards these two restrictive assumptions in computing an expected earnings variable to explain the probability that a student will choose a specific major among four choices of concentrations. The construction of an expected earnings variable requires information on the student s perceived probability of success, the predicted earnings of graduates in all majors and the student s expected earnings if he (she) fails to complete a college program. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we evaluate the chances of success in all majors for all the individuals in the sample. Second, the individuals' predicted earnings of graduates in all majors are obtained using Rumberger and Thomas's (1993) regression estimates from a 1987 Survey of Recent College Graduates. Third, we obtain idiosyncratic estimates of earnings alternative of not attending college or by dropping out with a condition derived from our college major decision-making model applied to our sample of college students. Finally, with a mixed multinominal logit model, we explain the individuals' choice of a major. The results of the paper show that the expected earnings variable is essential in the choice of a college major. There are, however, significant differences in the impact of expected earnings by gender and race.

An interview with Avigail Eisenberg : “Reasoning about the Identity of Aboriginal People”

Document de travail

Public Reason that Speaks to People : Iris Marion Young and the Problem of Internal Exclusion

Dossier : In Memoriam, Iris Marion Young (1949-2006)

Exploration de la perception de l’interdisciplinarité de la part des infirmières en milieu gériatrique

Problématique : Dans un contexte de vieillissement de la population et de complexification des besoins de santé, travailler en interdisciplinarité est devenu une nécessité pour prodiguer des soins de qualité aux personnes âgées vulnérables. Les avantages de l’interdisciplinarité sont connus mais son intégration dans la pratique des professionnels de la santé se vit parfois difficilement. La compréhension de la perception de l’interdisciplinarité de la part des infirmières est un élément majeur d’une pratique de collaboration interprofessionnelle réussie, mais ce sujet a été peu étudié, encore moins en milieu gériatrique. Méthodologie : Le but de cette étude était d’explorer la perception de l’interdisciplinarité des infirmières dans le cadre d’une étude qualitative exploratoire. Les données ont été collectées grâce à sept entrevues semi-dirigées et une discussion de groupe. La méthode de Tesch (1990) fut utilisée pour l’analyse des données et une représentation de la perception fut élaborée. Résultats : Pour les participantes, l’interdisciplinarité est perçue comme un processus d’équilibre parfois difficile entre leur désir d’affirmer leur identité professionnelle et leur désir de collaborer et de travailler en synergie avec les autres intervenants, et ce pour le bien-être de la personne âgée. Elles trouvent que l’apport de l’infirmière à l’équipe interdisciplinaire est indispensable et que sa disponibilité et sa proximité du patient lui donne un statut privilégié pour être le pivot au sein de l’équipe interdisciplinaire. Elles soulignent aussi que la vulnérabilité de la clientèle et l’absence du proche-aidant lors des réunions interdisciplinaires poussent les infirmières à jouer le rôle de porte-parole de la personne âgée. Elles identifient unanimement la communication comme l’élément déterminant d’une collaboration réussie. Elles ajoutent que le leadership, la compétence et l’expérience de l’infirmière sont des déterminants importants pour une interdisciplinarité réussie, alors que la présence du désir de collaborer et le respect mutuel doivent être présents chez tous les intervenants de l’équipe pour collaborer harmonieusement. Par ailleurs, parmi tous les facteurs structurels et organisationnels, seule la pénurie des ressources professionnelles a été identifiée comme un déterminant ayant une incidence sur le travail interdisciplinaire.