Early Intervention

Although there are over 5000 indigenous communities around the world, the global responsibility to protect the indigenous is not being realized, since Indigenous communities still suffer socio-economical disadvantages, marginalization, discrimination and denial of justice to a certain extent.

This is evident throughout the world, in nations such as Australia and Canada, which pride themselves on their nations freedom, equality and safely. Australia despite being a first world nation has immensely failed at protecting it’s indigenous population, most notably it’s Indigenous youth, since over 80% of youth suicides in 2010 were of young Aborigines. Early intervention is the key to protecting Aborigines, as commented by Social Justice Minster,

Early intervention is conducted through educating programs such as NSW Family & Community Service. Not only does this service provided educating facilities, but also legal services which aim to aid Aborigines struggling with the Australian judicial system. However, since there is a vast amount of uneducated adult Aborigines, NSW Aboriginal Consultative Group Inc. provides advisors, representative and educators to tutor indigenous adults, so that they may gain equal opportunity in employment and become literate. Services like this lower incarceration rates, because poverty and unemployment are contributing factor to criminal behavior, therefore by providing an education the individual will be employable and able to provide for themselves without resulting to commit offences . For early intervention to occur it is vital that there if good parenting and that children are not neglected, the ‘Boomerangs Coolamon Parenting Program’ educates parents about issues of drug abuse, neglect, self-care and guidance. This is an effective program to protect the indigenous because it ensures that children are not neglected or mislead, since many scholar such as Heckman suggest that “poor parenting contributes to incarceration rates of youth”. Scholar Anne Gerstian backs Heckmans argument, that programs which

This is evident from the case of Sammy Yatmin a native Canadian who was shot by a policeman for possession of a pocket knife. Tragically the native was shot by someone entrusted by the government to protect them, exhibiting corruption in the system. As a result, the Canadian community created ‘The Affected Families of Police Homicide’ organization, however this is ineffective, since it does not provide sanctions for offences. Amendments of legislations are required because the criminal justice system has loop holes, so when governmental organization and services commit offences due to negligence or prejudice they are pardoned. The Tina Fontines case about the young native girl placed in foster care exhibits the Canadian governments lack of protection. Since, Tina was placed in foster care by Manitoba’s Child and Family Service, for her safety however, her dead body was found battered in the Red River a week later. This is negligence, since the service had placed the girl in a environment for safety, however it led to her death. Statistics provide that a native women is safer with her community than a white women in hers, revealing that the service had been negligent and therefore should suffer a consequence. In 2011 another native women had suffer abuse due to the governments failure to protect, Manitoba