Resources supporting culturally safe, strengths-based practice
- One Vision One Voice: Changing the Ontario child welfare system to better serve African Canadians – Practice framework part 2 [2016]Part two of a practice framework which calls for sweeping reforms to the Ontario child welfare system to address systemic racism and to reduce the overrepresentation of African Canadian children in care. Part two identifies and recommends race equity practices to ensure systemic change occurs throughout all aspects of child welfare
- Critical Reflection GuideAn equity response in practice means examining our own bias, assumptions, and attitudes as we clinically intervene and assess risk. The following questions are to support and guide workers towards questions they need to ask themselves as they support families.
Resources related to intersectional identities and approaches
- The Black Queer Youth Initiative: Challenging racism, stigma & exclusion [2017]Chapter from Where Am I Going to Go? Intersectional Approaches to Ending LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness in Canada & the U.S. that presents the Black Queer Youth (BQY) as a case study. BQY is a group for Black, African, Caribbean and multiracial youth, aged 29 and under, who also identify as 2SLGBTQ+
- Persistent inequality: Ontario’s colour-coded labour market [2018]This report presents a portrait of the province’s racialized labour market as of 2016, and compares it to similar data from 2006. The study finds that racialized workers in Ontario continue to experience higher unemployment rates and significant wage gaps compared to non-racialized workers
Resources about African Canadian communities and experiences
Resources related to white privilege and racial anxiety
- The elephant in the room: Addressing racial anxiety of white social workers in child welfare [2018]Article by Jana Vinsky, Implementation Specialist with One Vision One Voice, on addressing anxieties and emotions like embarrassment and guilt when faced with our privilege
- White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack [1989]Much-cited article from Peggy McIntosh on the topic of white privilege that lists examples of everyday advantages that white people
