Understanding together, healing together: Mi’kmaq language revitalization as a tool for community mental health and well-being.

The intention of this study is to construct linguistic teaching tools in the community through community engaged research. The objective will be to work with the Sipekne’katik community health centre parental programs and community partnerships to foster conversations around community-based healing and well-being practices. The audience will be with parents, guardians, and families with infants, toddlers, and pre-primary aged children. The expected benefit to the partner organization in the community of Sipekne’katik will be to have intellectual rights to evidence-based research on language resurgence, revitalization, reclamation, and maintenance in relation to mental and physical health and well-being. The grassroots benefits include parents, guardians, and families
accessing Mikmaq language to communicate with their children and families. This is the first step to creating language nests, and promoting healthy families, and community language speakers

Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Tinkham

Student:

Partner:

Mental Health Research Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Acadia University

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