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Walking This Path Together

by Gwendolyn Gosek
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781773637372
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 30.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 428 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social Work, Adoption & Fostering, and Children's Studies

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 often make the lives of young people more precarious because they are stratified along race and class lines rather than caring for their wellbeing. There have been dire consequences for Indigenous communities but also for Black, newcomer, non-citizen and poor people, who are also disproportionately the primary focus of child welfare. The contributors to this book reveal these unjust conditions so that workers can contribute to the ongoing transformation of child welfare to facilitate child wellbeing.

The third edition of Walking This Path Together continues the transformative vision of the first two editions and charts a new way forward. There are several new chapters and authors, who focus on Métis kinship protocols, family group conferencing, decolonizing child welfare, and the criminalization of newcomers, refugee children and Indigenous youth in care. They demonstrate how to bring forward transformative practices to moving child welfare into a truly new decolonial era. This transformative vision is the path that we are walking.

Carrière, Jeannine: -

Sohki Aski Esquao, Jeannine Carrière is Métis and was raised in St. Adolphe Manitoba. She has been teaching social work since 1994 in Alberta and at the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, since 2005. In 2024 Jeannine is retiring from her academic career after many years of service to Indigenous social work education. Her research contributions have included topics such as Metis children's identity, and needs for cultural safety in adoptions and child welfare services.

Fairbairn, Michele: -

Michele Fairbairn is an educator with the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, located on the unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples, including the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ Peoples. Michele is a former ward of the child welfare system and a former child welfare worker.

Gosek, Gwendolyn: -

Osawa Askiy Iskwew (Gwendolyn Gosek) is a member of Lac La Ronge First Nations. She is an assistant professor with the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, located on the unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples, including the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ Peoples.

Strega, Susan: -

Susan Strega taught in the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, until her retirement in 2021. Susan is a former youth in care and former child protection worker.

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