Walking This Path Together.
Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice
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.
This edition has been replaced by Walking This Path Together, 2nd Edition
About the book
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.
What people are saying
Marilyn Callahan, retired professor of social work, University of Victoria“This collection must be read by all of those wanting to reclaim child welfare practice from its present attention to paper work and management systems to an enterprise focused on social justice for children and families. Emerging and experienced scholars alike grapple with how social workers can change their thinking and acting through adopting anti-oppressive approaches to practice.”
Cindy Blackstock, executive director of Caring for First Nations Children Society and member of the Board of Directors for the Child Welfare League of Canada“Jeannine Carrière, a much respected Aboriginal academic, along with her colleague Susan Strega, have gathered the wisdom of many to create this ground breaking collection on Aboriginal child welfare. I highly recommended it for researchers, policy makers, child welfare workers and community members who are working to ensure that this generation of Aboriginal children has the same opportunity as other Canadian children to live safely at home.”
Authors
Contents
- : Introduction (Jeannine Carrière and Susan Strega)
- : Children in the Centre: Indigenous Perspectives on Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice (Qwul’sih’yah’maht [Robina Thomas] and Kundouqk [Jacquie Green])
- : “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-Indigenous Social Worker (Christopher Walmsley)
- : Métis Experiences of Social Work Practice (Cathy Richardson)
- : What Parents Say: Service Users’ Theory and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice (Gary Dumbrill and Winnie Lo)
- : Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Assessment, Risk Assessment and Record-Keeping (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 (Cathy Richardson and Allan Wade)
- : Healing Versus Treatment: Substance Misuse, Child Welfare and Indigenous Families (Betty Bastien, Jeannine Carrière and Susan Strega)
- : Engaging With Fathers in Child Welfare (Leslie Brown, Susan Strega, Lena Dominelli, Christopher Walmsley and Marilyn Callahan)
- : Considerations for Cultural Planning and Indigenous Adoptions (Jeannine Carrière and Raven Sinclair)
- : Practicing From the Heart (Carolyn Peacock)
