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social services & social justice in Canada
Social services are in crisis. After numerous service cuts, many of its jobs are now short-term, part-time and non-unionized, prompting us to ask why is there not a greater public outcry for helping people in need? This book applies decolonized, critical analysis to highlight what is often hidden from view for most Canadians, the personal trauma and communal devastation inflicted on Indigenous people by past and present colonialism, and how neoliberal tax cuts, austerity and privatization are creating more inequality, homelessness and despair among both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The authors advocate for social service providers to become social activists to delegitimatize colonial and neoliberal policies by working in solidarity with progressive, grass roots social movements committed to Indigenous Treaty rights, and to economic, environmental and social justice for everyone.
1. Ntamkidwinan first words -- Welcome -- An Anishinaabe Elder's perspectives -- 2. Power, ideology, and social services -- Ongoing colonialism and its consequences -- Canadian apology for residential schools -- Indigenous child removal system and the "Sixties Scoop" -- Today's colonialism -- Individualism and privilege -- Progressive social work -- Naming and resisting injustices -- Colonial privilege -- Racism and privilege -- Class privilege -- Patriarchal privilege -- Heterosexual / cisgender privilege -- Ableism and privilege -- Social justice and social services -- Roots : early attitudes -- Early North American social welfare -- "Survival of the fittest" - Social Darwinism -- Social work : the beginnings -- Oppression and resistance -- Indigenous "assimilation" and resistance -- Inuit and Métis -- Early 1900s unrest -- Social programs and social injustices -- Resistance and progressive movement -- Neoliberal backlash -- Diverging schools of altruism -- Conflicts inside the social work curriculum -- Conventional : ecological-systems theory -- Anti-oppression perspectives -- The controversy about competency models -- From Aboriginal circiles in the classroom to Indigenizing social work -- Four principles of good practice -- Social workers : on the front line -- Where social workers work -- How people become social services users -- Hierarchies and the stratification of social services -- The challenge of social work -- The bottom line : managerialized social services -- Privitization of social services -- A challenge : this story must change -- Reality check : service users' experience -- Welfare "reform" : smoke and mirrors -- Different shades of social coercion -- Caring social services : take a deep bow -- Challenging feelings hopeless -- Social justice movements -- Labour unions and social work -- Dealing with challenges : tiny miracles -- Alternative social services -- An activist agenda by progressive social works -- Toward liberation -- Challenging multiple oppressions -- Themes for liberation in social work practice -- Indigenous healing and liberation -- Liberation and social services -- The pendulum of practice : a tool for assessing cultural competence -- Completing a cultural competence self-audit -- Competence matrix -- Supporting and actualizing transformation -- Nawây-pîkiskwêwina after words -- Can we go where we have never been?
Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell), Raven Sinclair, Ben Carniol, Donna Baines.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-215).