"Thirteen case studies are being conducted as part of the impact evaluation of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF). The case studies are intended to provide a detailed, holistic view of the projects and their performance. All data collection, analysis, and synthesis are being done by community support coordinators under the facilitative guidance of Kishk Anaquot Health Research (KAHR). The case studies were selected to include representation from a variety of project types and targets.1 This case study examines a parenting skills course in a rural community that combines Western and traditional approaches and targets Survivors who are living in La Ronge, Saskatchewan, and surrounding area, whether they are First Nation, Métis, gay/lesbian, disabled, men, women, youth, or Elders.

The project addressed here is the Kikinahk Parenting Program delivered by the Kikinahk Friendship Centre Inc. of La Ronge, Saskatchewan (AHF- funded project # RB-67-SK). The primary purpose of the project is to ensure that families will develop traditional and modern parenting skills and ways of relating that will allow them to be functional and healthy. The centre hopes to accomplish this goal via a parenting program from where a blend of traditional parenting models together with opportunities to learn modern expectations of parents are offered. The report describes the program’s approach, what the project hopes to achieve in the short and long term, team and participant characteristics, La Ronge, Saskatchewan, the Aboriginal community, and the surrounding area. It also discusses the methods used, their limitations, and what could be discerned from available data about the changes in individual participants as well as in the community.” (Case Study Report: Kikinahk Parenting Program, page 1).