Parity in Child Welfare

Dr. Jennifer Hedges is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Social Work Inner City Social Work Program. She is the co-chair of the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium and co-chair of the International Association of Schools of Social Work Research Committee.Dr. Marlyn Bennett (WaaWaaTe Ikwe | Northern Lights Woman) is a proud member of the Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation and an Associate Professor in Social Work and Education at the University of Calgary. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Children’s Wellbeing.Dr. Jason Albert (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the School of Indigenous Social Work, First Nations University of Canada, where he has been a faculty member since 2002.Dr. Peter Choate is a professor of Social Work at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Peter is an expert witness in social work with sub-specialties in the areas of case management, parenting capacity, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and cross-cultural assessment.Don Fuchs is Dean and Professor Emeritus at University of Manitoba, Faculty of Social Work. His scholarship has included groundbreaking research on Children in Care with FASD and other disabilities.

• ForewordFrom the EditorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction—Jason Albert & Christine ChateauChapter 1—The Prairie Child Welfare Consortium Story: A Model for Collaboration—Jennifer HedgesChild Welfare PolicyChapter 2: The Talking Circle as an Approach to Indigenous Leadership within Indigenous Organizations—Christine Chateau and Jason AlbertChapter 3: Māori and Oranga Tamariki: Taku Kuru Pounamu, my precious treasure. Shifting power in Aotearoa New Zealand’s foster system—Kā mihi nunui Kerri CleaverChapter 4: Preserving Indigenous children rights to connection within culture: Where do the priorities lie?—Peter W. ChoateChapter 5: Achieving Parity in Indigenous Child Welfare: The Promise of Bill C-92 and the Potential of Long-Term Reform to the First Nations Child and Family Services Program in Canada—Marlyn BennettChild Welfare PracticeChapter 6: Grief in Child Welfare—Ashlee HomewoodChapter 7: Child protection workers and the impact of difficult work: Going beneath the surface—Faye HamiltonChapter 8: The complexity of family for children in care—Christina TortorelliChapter 9: Making Sense of Complicated Love: Partners of child sexual abuse perpetrators speak—Lorna Hanson and Eveline MillikenChild Welfare ResearchChapter 10: Examining child poverty and child neglect within the sustainable development goals framework—Daniel Kikulwe, Peyton Drynan, and Mykayla BlackmanChapter 11: Introducing the Childhood Adversity and Resilience Research Training Platform (CARe RTP): Bringing Together Community Partners, Students, and Academics to Increase Research Capacity to Generate Impactful Research in Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare—Ashley Stewart-Tufescu, Tracie O. Afifi, Tamara L. Taillieu, Jamie Pfau, Julie-Anne McCarthy, Ana Osorio and Lauren MacGowanChapter 12: Social Work Education for Social Justice Work in Child Welfare—Jennifer HedgesEpilogue—Marlyn Bennett, PhDAbstractsAuthor Biographies

“For those of us who have waited decades to witness fundamental change in Canada’s child welfare system, this book shares a pathway forward. It is a parallel pathway that places children at the centre, walking in step with families, communities and a reborn child welfare system. It is a pathway bounded by common values and action, and celebration of many ways of knowing, doing, being and connecting.” —Jackie Sieppert, Dean Emeritus, University of Calgary