Why
Benefits of Ripple Effects Training Workshops
Aboriginal Awareness

For service providers such as teachers, social workers, psychologists, correctional officers, police officers, care givers, and nurses Ripple Effects Training Workshops will show you how to achieve more positive results through enhanced communication with your Aboriginal clients.

Ripple Effects Training Workshops will help you to create greater understanding and enhance communications between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. The workshops will serve as a tool for gaining awareness and understanding of a group of people who, through historical events, location, law, legislation and policies have remained separated, isolated, segregated and marginalized from mainstream society. The building of trusting and respectful relationships will occur through awareness, comfort, confidence and much improved communications.

Here are two questions that will challenge your current knowledge of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples:

Do you know why 100% of all treaty indians are status but only 50% of status indians are treaty?
(This is not a trick question)

If I am an Aboriginal and not an Indian what am I?

Get the answers by taking our short quiz or
contact Robert Laboucane to get the answers.

Did you know?

  • Over the past decade, the overall proportion of on-reserve Aboriginals in receipt of social assistance has averaged more than 40%.
  • Today, there are over 40 000 Aboriginal students attending post-secondary Institutions.
  • Today, the government of Canada is providing $360 million annually for programs that are primarily targeting Aboriginal employment.
  • The absence of communication that would lead to relationships between the private sector and the greater Aboriginal community works against potential success