Prairie Child Welfare Consortium / Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare
Putting a Human Face on Child Welfare: Voices from the Prairies is a first book emerging from the collaboration between The Prairie Child Welfare Consortium (PCWC) and the Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare (CECW). The book focuses on the challenges faced and lessons learnt by practitioners, researchers, and academics in the field of child welfare. It focuses on issues relevant to the Prairie Provinces, and in particular on child welfare in relation to Aboriginal communities. The chapters reflect the 22 contributing authors’ vast experiences as practitioners, program planners and academics.
Additional Information
Individual chapters may be opened below:
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: Voices Discovering Each Other as They Rise From Canada's Fragmented Child Welfare System
- Introduction: Development of the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium and This Book
- Chapter 1: Contextual and Cultural Aspects of Resilience in Child Welfare Settings
- Chapter 2: Identity, Community, Resilience: The Transmission of Values Project
- Chapter 3: Reconciliation: Rebuilding the Canadian Child Welfare System to Better Serve Aboriginal Children and Youth
- Chapter 4: Here be Dragons! Breaking Down the Iron Cage for Aboriginal Children
- Chapter 5: The Journey of the Métis Settlements Child and Family Services Authority: Serving Alberta's Métis Settlement Children, Youth, and Families
- Chapter 6: Children with Disabilities Involved with the Child Welfare System in Manitoba: Current and Future Challenges
- Chapter 7: Supporting Aboriginal Children and Youth with Learning and Behavioural Disabilities in the Care of Aboriginal Child Welfare Agencies
- Chapter 8: A Sacred Family Circle: A Family Group Conferencing Model
- Chapter 9: On the Matter of Cross-Cultural Aboriginal Adoptions
- Chapter 10: Aboriginal Children: Maintaining Connections in Adoption
- Chapter 11: Creating Conditions for Good Practice: A Child Welfare Project Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Social Workers