“Growing up in a Anishinaabe Wiisaakode (Ojibwe Metis) community in the 1960’s, Social Work Professor Patricia McGuire and her siblings knew exactly who the government-appointed social worker was and what happened when he came to their village…
Today, McGuire is herself a social worker and part of a group at Carleton’s School of Social Work that is acknowledging the field’s difficult history with residential schools, child welfare and education. This group of social workers is committed to decolonizing and reconciling social work’s relationship(s) with Indigenous peoples in Canada—beginning with its own program.” (Excerpt from FPA Voices article by Karen Kelly)
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