How much money did residential school survivors get?
The IRSSA recognized the damage inflicted by the residential schools and established a C$1.9-billion compensation package called CEP (Common Experience Payment) for all former IRS students. The agreement, announced in 2006, was the largest class action settlement in Canadian history.
What is an IAP hearing?
The IAP involves a private hearing – not in a courtroom – that will allow you to tell your experience to a neutral adjudicator. The adjudicator will ask you questions and manage the hearing. The hearings and the compensation are ways to help bring closure to residential school experiences.
What has Canada done for residential school survivors?
To ensure that Survivors have emotional and cultural support during this time, Canada made a three-year investment through Budget 2021 to renew essential mental health, culture and emotional supports for residential school Survivors and their families as well as those impacted by Federal Day Schools.
What is the Independent Assessment Process ( IAP )?
Independent Assessment Process IAP Application & Guide The Independent Assessment Process (IAP) is a new process, which will acknowledge survivors who have endured sexual, physical and psychological abuse at Residential School.
How to contact Indian Residential School independent assessment process?
Former students of Indian Residential Schools who have questions about the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) or about their IAP claim can call the IAP Information Line. There is no charge to call this number. The IAP Information Line can assist former students to better understand the IAP and how their claims proceed in it.
How is the independent assessment process rating system?
The Point SystemThe Independent Assessment Process is rated by a point system which an adjudicator will use to calculate compensation for those who have been affected by the abuses suffered at residential school.
What is the Optum managed Independent Assessment Initiative?
The Optum-managed independent assessment initiative is enabling Arkansas, a state with a large rural population, to manage its Medicaid population with chronic conditions in an organized, coordinated way. The goal is to reduce and eliminate fragmentation of care — which is a barrier to an individual’s health and leads to higher costs.