Research Catalog

Title

Walking this path together : anti-racist and anti-oppressive child welfare practice / edited by Susan Strega and Jeannine Carriere.

Publication

Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Strega, Susan
• Carrière, Jeannine

Description

294 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book offers students and experienced practitioners alike the opportunity to explore a range of visions, strategies and concrete skills for anti-racist and anti-oppressive child welfare practice. Significant topics and emerging practice approaches are addressed by contributors who share a passionate commitment to the transformation of child welfare through socially just practices. The book challenges the current Anglo-American child welfare paradigm by centring Indigenous perspectives and voices."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Native children > Canada > Social conditions
• Native children > Services for > Canada
• Social work with Indigenous peoples > Canada
• Racism in social services > Canada
• Child welfare > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Children in the centre : indigenous perspectives on anti-oppressive child welfare practice / Kundouqk [Jacquie Green] & Qwul'sih'yah'macht [Robina Thomas] -- Meeting here and now : reflections on racial and cultural difference in social work encounters / Donna Jeffery -- Race matters : social justice not assimilation or cultural competence / Sarah Maiter -- Widening the circle : countering institutional racism in child welfare / Joan Pennell -- The practice of child welfare in indigenous communities : a perspective for the non-idigenous social worker / Christopher Walmsley -- Métis experiences of social work practice / Kïnewesquao [Cathy Richardson] -- What parents say : service users' theory and anti-oppressive child welfare practice / Gary Dumbrill and Winnie Lo -- Anto-oppressive approaches to assessment, risk assessment and file recording / Susan Strega -- Supporting youth in care through anti-oppressive practice / April Feduniw -- Reconstructing neglect and emotional maltreatment from an anti-oppressive perspective / Henry Parada -- Oppressing mothers : protection practices in situations of child sexual abuse / Julia Krane and Rosemary Carlton -- Taking resistance seriously : a response-based approach to social work in cases of violence against indigenous women / Kïnewesquao [Cathy Richardson] and Allan Wade -- Healing versus treatment : substance misuse, child welfare and indigenous families / Betty Bastien, Sohki Aski Esquao [Jeannine Carrière] and Susan Strega -- Engaging fathers in child welfare practice / Leslie Brown [and others]. -- Considerations for cultural planning and indigenous adoptions / Sohki Aski Esquao [Jeannine Carrière] and Raven Sinclair -- Practising from the heart / Wa Cheew Wapaguunew Iskew [Carolyn Peacock].

ISBN

• 9781552662922
• 1552662926

OCLC

• 299224678
• SCSB-12391568

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library