Full Description
Drawing on the expertise of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including voices from the front lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, this book examines child welfare practices in kinship care, FASD, homelessness, aging out of the system, and transitions for rural youth leaving care. Themes running throughout the book include renewing and decolonizing child welfare work, anti-oppressive practices, the historical legacy of the 60s Scoop, and the needs of marginalized and vulnerable children.
Contents
Foreword • Jeannine Carriere
From the Editors
Acknowledgements • Dorothy Badry
Introduction • Don Fuchs
Part I: Policy
CHAPTER 1: Exploring Human Rights Approaches to Kinship Care Provision in the Prairie Provinces: Implications for Social Work Practice • Daniel Kikulwe & Julie Mann-Johnson
CHAPTER 2: Working with First Nations Child Welfare to Build Professionalism • Shelley Thomas Prokop, Laura Hicks, & Rachel Melymick
Part II: Practice
CHAPTER 3: Exploring Decolonization through Kinship Care Home Assessments • Julie Mann-Johnson & Daniel Kikulwe
CHAPTER 4: Aging Out of Care: The Rural Experience • Anne Marie McLaughlin, Richard Enns, & Deena Seaward
CHAPTER 5: Inappropriate Application of Parenting Capacity Assessments in the Child Protection System • Peter Choate & Gabrielle Lindstrom
CHAPTER 6: Listening in a Settler State: (Birth) Mothers as Paraprofessionals in Response to fasd • Michelle Stewart, Lisa Lawley, Rachel Tambour, & Alexandra Johnson
Part III: Research
CHAPTER 7: A Summary: On the Edge between Two Worlds: Community Narratives on the Vulnerability of Marginalized Indigenous Girls • Marlyn Bennett & Ainsley Krone
CHAPTER 8: Factors Associated with the Child Welfare Placement Decision in Alberta • Bruce MacLaurin, Hee-Jeong Yoo, & Morgan DeMone
CHAPTER 9: A Strained Relationship: Southern Sudanese Communities and Child Welfare Systems in Two Urban Centres in Western Canada • David Este & Christa Sato
CHAPTER 10: The Linkage between fasd and Homelessness for Individuals with a History of Child Welfare Care • Dorothy Badry, Christine Walsh, Meaghan Bell, & Kaylee Ramage
Part IV: Education
CHAPTER 11: The Development of a Training Video: Demonstrating Essential Skills for Child Welfare Practice • Cathy Rocke & Judy Hughes
CHAPTER 12: Transforming the Classroom: Supporting Critical Change in Social Work Education in the Spirit of Reconciliation for Child Welfare • Jennifer Hedges
Epilogue • H. Monty Montgomery
Abstracts
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index
