Walking This Path Together AntiRacist and AntiOppressive Child Welfare Practice, 2nd Edition. This item is unavailable.Walking This Path Together AntiRacist and AntiOppressive Child Welfare Practice, 2nd Edition

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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.

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. 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.