Residential School Trauma

Workshop Content

  • History of the residential school process
  • History of the government belief system
  • Traumas experienced by the Aboriginal peoples
  • Aboriginal cultural disintegration
  • Sexual abuse
  • Physical, mental and associated abuses
  • The long term effects and damage caused
  • Lateral violence
  • Healing programs and systems to help victims heal

OBJECTIVE: Participants will leave the workshop with a good awareness of the long-term damage incurred by the aboriginal community as a result of the residential school system. The workshop will also offer some healing techniques, and direct participants to programs and services to help with healing.