The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 27, 2000 - A15

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IMAGINE GROWING up
without any hugs from dad.

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Or being a single parent
who’s literally unable to
pat yourself on the back,

That’s what it means to
grow up in a family that’s
been affected by the resi-
dential school system,
says Geri McDougall, ex-
ecutive director of the
Northwest Band Social
Workers Association,

The residential school
legacy manifests itself in
other ways, too: drug and
alcohol addiction, depres-
sion, physical and sexual
abuse, family violence and
even suicide, she says.

And it’s a legacy that’s
been passed on to the next
generation, the children
and grandchildren of the
Survivors.

Bul a new residential
school outreach counsel-
ling program is offering
new hope for healing, Mc-
Dougall said.

The association has
now obtained money from
the Aboriginal Healing
Foundation for three resi-
dential school outreach
counsellors.

“We've been dealing
with a lot of clients who
have gone through residen-
tial school,” McDougall
said. “They’re really suf-
fering, and there doesn’t
seem to be anything for
them,”

The team will be
headed up by Louisa
Smith, who went to a resi-
dential schoal and who has
been working in Prince
Rupert as a family vio-
lence counsellor for the
‘association. ;

She'll be joined by twa
other counsellors. They
will be based out of Ter-
race, and available to the
25 bands affiliated with
the association in commu-
nities from the Queen
Charlotte Islands west to
Hazelton, and narth to
Iskut.

“They’re really suf-
fering, and there
doesn't seem to be
anything for them.”

Six community work-
shops are planned, likely
starting in November. The
workshops will be open to
anyone feeling the effects
of the residential school
system.

One-on-one counselling
and smaller workshops will
also be available over the
next year.

“When we applied for
this funding, we were
‘thinking about third and
fourth generation people,”
said McDougall.

McDougall said entire
communities continue to
grapple with the effects of
the residential school sys-
tem, and nowhere is it
more evident than in the
family unit.

“If a father is afraid to
touch his son because he
might abuse him, his son
grows up and thinks, ‘My
dad hates me.””

McDougall, a social
worker with 12 years’ ex-
perience, said boosting
self-esteem is particularly
important for healing to
begin, but it’s really hard
for some people to ack-
nowledge their positive
accomplishments.

She remembers telling
a woman to give her self
an actual pat on the back
for her abilities as a single
mother.

Instead, the woman cal-

lapsed in a flood of tears.
“She couldn’t do it.”

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HEALING THE HIDDEN SCARS: Kathy Wesley-Scott, Geri McDougall, and

Tammy Ratcliff of the Northwest Band Social Workers Association outside the
Kitselas office. The association is launching a new counselling outreach pro-
gram this fall that’s aimed at helping families affected by residential schools.

McDougall said the
new residential school
counselling program will
differ from the family
counselling and sexual
abuse intervention pro-

: Brams the association al-

ready offers,
“We're always dealing
with the symptoms, You

have to go to the core of

what the problem is.”

The association offers a
professional counselling
program in Terrace through
a partnership with the
Counsellor Training Insti-
tute of Canada.

Eight students are
completing certification
for residential © school
counselling. — ;

And there’s still room
for 12 new students in an
accelerated certificate

program in residential
school counselling.

“A lot of them go back
to the communities, and
you get the snowball effect
— they’ll talk to one person
and another person, and
the next thing you know,
you've got healing going
on in a community,” she
said. “That’s my dream.”

For more than a de-
cude, adults who had been
sent to residential schools
have come forward with
their stories of verbal, phy-
sical.and sexual abuse at
the hands of the staff-at re-
sidential schools.

The schools were sanc-
lioned by the government
and operated by churches.
The goal was to assimilate
and educate the students,
who were often hundreds

of kilometres from their
homes.

In the northwest, a lot
of children were taken to
Port Alberni, McDougall
said,

Many children of Kitse-

las and Kitsumkalum resi-

dents were taken to Lyt-

ton, in southern B.C.,
while Gitxsan and
Wet’suwet’en children

were taken to one in Fra-

‘ser Lake.

Still others went all the
way to Edmonton, Alberta,
McDougall’s own father
went: to the residential
school there. She recalled
begging him to send her
there when she was a
child, but he refused at the
last minute.

In retrospect, she’s very
glad he did.

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A Mothers Wrath

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