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This project was funded by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF), but the views expressed in this report are the personal views of the author(s). [...] I was in and out of group homes and foster care and by the age of fifteen I was ordered to attend AA. [...] We were still living in tar paper shacks on the reserve and it was incredible, the poverty and isolation. [...] They have to understand that this is an epidemic-this cycle of abuse of children and then they repeat that abuse to themselves through drugs and alcohol. [...] Research,.2002;.2003), •. Mapping the Healing Journey (Lane.et.al.,.2002), •. NNADAP.general.rev ew.and.renewal.framework.d scuss on.paper.(Nat onal.Nat ve.