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Walking this path together : anti-racist and anti-oppressive child welfare practice /

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Canadian child welfare policies and practices have been central to maintaining a settler colonial nation by controlling and managing the childhoods and future lives of children. While ostensibly grounded in the "best interests of the child," child welfare policies and practices far too oft...

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Other Authors: Gosek, Gwendolyn, 1951- (Editor), Fairbairn, Michele (Editor), Carrière, Jeannine (Editor), Strega, Susan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Halifax, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2025].
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Racism in social services > Canada.
Child welfare > Canada.
Indigenous children > Canada > Social conditions.
Indigenous children > Services for > Canada.
Social work with Indigenous peoples > Canada.
Table of Contents:
  • Decolonial, Anti-Racist and Equitable Child Welfare / Osowa Askiy Iskwew (Gwendolyn Gosek) and Michele Fairbairn
  • Indigenous Children in the Centre: Indigenous Perspectives on Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice / Qwul'sih'yah'maht (Robina Thomas) and Kundoqk (Jacquie Green)
  • The Long and Twisted Road to Child Welfare: My Mother's Story Through Colonization, Trauma and Strength / Osowa Askiy Iskwew (Gwendolyn Gosek)
  • Child Welfare Assessment, Documentation and Recordkeeping: Decolonial, Anti-Racist and Equitable Approaches / Michele Fairbairn
  • Giidosendiwag: Walking Together with Indigenous Youth in Care / Nancy Stevens and Ziigwanbinesii [Rachel Charles])
  • Four Level Model of Consciousness with Family Group Conferences: A Wise Practice for Awareness of Colonization and Decolonization / Don Robinson)
  • Recentring M̌tis Kinship Protocols of Care: Disputing Colonial Child Welfare Practices / Julie Mann-Johnson and Angie Tucker
  • Decolonizing Prevention: Support and Surveillance in Indigenous Child and Family Services / Erika Finestone
  • "Your Best Can Only Take You to Where the Good Is": Strange Things Black Parents Say and Do to Prepare Black Children for a Racist Society / Paul Banahene Adjei
  • "Deportation Is Double Punishment": The Neoliberal "Crimmigration" System / Mandeep Kaur Mucina, Jessica Pratezina and Amira Abdel-Malek
  • Decolonial Trauma-Informed School-Based Practice: Hearing the Voices of Refugee Newcomer Parents / Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
  • Taking Children's Resistance Even More Seriously: A Response-Based Approach to Children Who Have Experienced Violence / Kineweskẘw (Cathy Richardson) and Shelly Dean
  • Calling All Warriors: Indigenous Social Workers Fighting Inequity within the Child Welfare System / Carolyn Peacock and Brooke Lightning-Montour.