Walking This Path Together

Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice, 2nd Edition

Jeannine Carrière, Susan Strega, Jeannine Carrière, Susan Strega

• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781773633992
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

Walking This Path Together is an edited collection devoted to improving the lives of children and families that come to the attention of child welfare authorities by demonstrating and advocating for socially just child welfare practices. In this new, updated edition, authors provide special consideration to the historical and political context of child welfare in Canada and theoretical ideas and concrete practices that support practitioners, educators and students who are looking for anti-racist, anti-oppressive and anti-colonial perspectives on child welfare practice.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• An Introduction: Anti-Racist and Anti - Oppressive Child Welfare - Susan Strega and Sohki Aski Esquao [Jeannine Carrière]
• Chapter 1: Indigenous Children in the Centre: Indigenous Perspectives on Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice - Qwul’sih’yah’maht [Robina Thomas] and Kundoqk [Jacquie Green]
• Chapter 2 - Meeting Here and Now: Reflections on Racial and Cultural Difference in Social Work Encounters - Donna Jeffery
• Chapter 3 - Family Group Decision Making: Does It Engage Indigenous Families in Child Protection? - Tara Ney, Kinewesquao [Cathy Richardson] and Maureen Maloney
• Chapter 4 - Race Matters: Social Justice, not Assimilation or Cultural Competence - Sarah Maiter
• Chapter 5 - Critical Well-Being in Child Welfare: A Journey Towards Creating a New Social Contract for Black Communities - Nicole Bonnie and Gordon Pon
• Chapter 6 - Adjusting a Power Imbalance: There Is No Anti-Oppression Without Service Users’ Voice - Gary Dumbrill and Winnie Lo
• Chapter 7 - Acknowledging Métis Aspirations: Preparing Social Workers to Support Métis Families - Kinewesquao [Cathy Richardson]
• Chapter 8 - Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Child Protection: Assessment and File Recording - Michele Fairbairn and Susan Strega
• Chapter 9 - Invisible Fathers, Blamed Mothers: Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare PracticeChristopher Walmsley, Susan Strega, Leslie Brown, - Marilyn Callahan and Lena Dominelli
• Chapter 10 - Taking Children’s Resistance Seriously: A Response-Based Approach to Children Experiencing Violence - Kinewesquo [Cathy Richardson] and Shelly Bonnah
• Chapter 11 - Indigenous Families: Substance Use and Child Welfare - Charlotte Loppie and Bernie Pauly
• Chapter 12 - Creating Places of Belonging: Expanding Notions of Permanency with Indigenous Youth in Care - Sandrina de Finney and Lara di Tomasso
• Chapter 13 - Honouring Adoptee Rights: Towards Anti-Oppression in Indigenous Adoption - Otiskewa¯pit [Raven Sinclair] and Sohki Aski Esquao [Jeannine Carrière]
• Chapter 14 - Practising from the Heart: Living and Working in First Nations Communities - Sohki Aski Esquao [Jeannine Carrière] and Wa Cheew Wapaguunew Iskew [Carolyn Peacock]