Journal articles and research
- Privilege as a moving target: Re-imagining privilege for social work practice byPublication: Critical Social Work, 19(2)Publication Date: 2018Drawing on research conducted with social workers in Southwestern Ontario, this paper explores privilege as a dynamic, fluid concept, and looks at its relevance to social work practice.
- Increasing awareness of racial identity among white social workers - a narrative approach byPublication Date: 2018This graduate thesis was developed on the premise that the lack of white racial identity awareness is a contributor to the experience of racism in social services by Indigenous people.
- Racialization, silences and the negotiation of power within child welfare institutions in Ontario byPublication: Canadian Ethnic Studies, 48(3), 109-127Publication Date: 2016Note: you have to be authenticated by OACAS’s library databases to access
- An anti-oppression (AO) framework for child welfare in Ontario, Canada: Possibilities for systemic change byPublication: British Journal of Social Work, 45(2), 474-492Publication Date: 2015This article presents the development and potential use of a method of bringing systemic change to child welfare, while taking into account the many challenges.
- Training child welfare workers from an intersectional cultural humility perspective: A paradigm shift byPublication: Child Welfare, 90(5), 27-49Publication Date: 2011This article promotes cultural humility in child welfare service to liberate workers from expectations of cultural expertise about others, and to actively engage the clients, inclusive of their cultural differences, in the service delivery process.
Collections of resources
- National Child Welfare Workforce Institute: Racial equity resourcesResources to support child welfare staff and leaders as they confront implicit bias, implement system changes, and work to achieve racial equity within their organizations and across systems
- Racial Equity ToolsWebsite offering a collection of tools, research, curricula and more to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity