Episode 164: Advocating For Indigenous People with Developmental Disabilities

In Episode 164, Ben chats with Gitxsan-born Indigenous developmental disabilities advocate Frankie (Sii Lu Yee) Abel.  Frankie works as an Indigenous Practice Advisor for Community Living BC in rural remote British Columbia while attending Simon Fraser’s Beedie School of Business in the Indigenous Executive MBA program.  She is passionate about advocating for Indigenous people and vulnerable adults and children who don't have their voices yet. Frankie hopes to focus her career on bridging the gap between Indigenous people and the rest of the world.

 

Continuing Education Credits (https://www.cbiconsultants.com/shop)

BACB: 1.5 Learning
IBAO: 1.5 Cultural
QABA: 1.5 DEI

Contact:

https://www.gitanmaax.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankie-abel-8bab06234/

https://www.communitylivingbc.ca/about-us/indigenous-relations/

Links:

Residential schools 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/first-person-facing-genocide-mohawk-institute-la-tuque-residential-school-1.6527631

The Indian Residential Schools Surivivors Society

https://www.irsss.ca/

The 60s scoop

https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/sixties_scoop/

Indigenous Day school

https://irshdc.ubc.ca/learn/indian-day-schools/

Indigenous Foster Care

https://themedium.ca/disproportionate-suffering-indigenous-children-and-ongoing-discrimination/

The Gift Of Being Different 

https://aidecanada.ca/resources/learn/asd-id-core-knowledge/the-gift-of-being-different

Shikabe Makwa

https://www.camh.ca/en/driving-change/shkaabe-makwa

Behaviour Speak Podcast Episodes Referenced

Rachelle Gladue

https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-132-culturally-safe-harm-reduction-with-rachelle-gladue-pisimoyapiy-ka-nipawit/

Grant Bruno

https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-37-the-realities-of-autism-in-first-nations-communities-in-canada-with-grant-bruno-phd-candidate/

Louis Busch Episode

https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-11-the-treatment-of-life-threatening-pica-with-louis-busch-bst-abs-hc-med-bcba/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links:

DMV Association of Black Behavior Analysts (DMV ABBA)

https://www.dmvabba.org/

Black Men in Behavior Analysis

https://bmbanetwork.org/

Black Applied Behavior Analysts 

https://babainfo.org/

Missouri Black Behavior Analysis Community (MOBBAC)

https://www.mobbac.org/

TAP: The ABA Pathfinders