© Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health 6(2) 2008 65 The CIET Aboriginal Youth Resilience Studies: 14 Years of Capacity Building and Methods Development in Canada

• Main Authors: Neil Andersson, Robert J Ledogar
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Canada; First Nations; James Bay
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.514.5341; http://www.fsin.com/healthandsocial/childportal/images/6.2D_CIET_Aboriginal_Youth_Resilience.pdf

CIET started supporting Canadian Aboriginal community-based research-ers of resilience in 1995. An evolving approach to Aboriginal resilience used a combination of standard instruments and questionnaires of local design. Over the years, CIET measured personal assets like sense of coherence, spiritu-ality, knowledge, pride in one’s heritage, mastery or self-efficacy, self-esteem, low levels of distress, involvement in traditional ways and activities, church attendance. Other indicators reflected the social dimension of resilience: feel-ing supported; parental care and support; parental monitoring, attitudes, and example; peer support; and support from the wider community. Pride in one’s heritage, self-esteem, low distress, and mastery were measurable personal assets of resilient Aboriginal youth in a variety of cul-• Acknowledgments. Health Canada funded the Nechi, Wunska, LoPHID, and LIHC studies. The James Bay Cree Board of Health and Social Services funded studies in there area and collaborated in others funded by the Assembly of First Nations, namely the AFN-HIV and AFN-CPNP studies. The Canadian