Indigenous Perspectives & Social Work Series: Part 1 - Our Shared Past and Future

Presenter: Kara Moss
Summary of Presentation
Canadian social workers are highly diverse yet share the same values of social justice, respect for all and service to humanity. As a country and a profession we have the opportunity to move forward with genuine reconciliation. This two part webinar series strives to encourage ongoing discussion and continual learning. Understanding and acknowledging our shared colonial past will help us to create a more just and healthy shared future. This is a webinar series for all social workers.
Webinar objectives are:
To encourage ongoing discussion and learning about our shared history of colonization
To examine colonization from our social work lens
To discuss where we are today as a consequence of colonization
Kara Moss is a registered social worker, therapist, trainer and community volunteer. Kara is passionate about attachment theory and is applicability to all cultures. She has worked in Mexico and Sierra Leone and now works across Manitoba including within a number of remote Northern First Nation communities. She also spent 15 years working in child welfare in both front line and management roles.
Today Kara provides therapeutic services through Samsara Therapy, her private company, and for FNIHB. Providing training for Manitoba’s CFS staff also keeps Kara busy as does volunteering as a member of the Manitoba College of Social Workers’ Continuing Competence Committee. She is a Certified Attachment Trainer for Circle of Security. After earning a Diploma in Radio and Television Broadcasting from Confederation College, Kara went on to graduate from the University of Manitoba with a BSW and a MSW.

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Regarding how can the relationship between indigenous people and social workers can be strengthened, social work needs to be culturally relevant to the diverse communities. through culturally relevant social work education. From this practice arise the "Ground up approach" this approach draws on the diverse custom laws of the community in guiding the social work practice. By presenting this model to the community you build defererence from the community by building moral credibility

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High risk youth hearing the history of their ancestors would probley connect more fragmented aspects of their brain and heal their relationship with themselves, family and the colonial state

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What are the resources to read about the role of social workers in taking indigenous children away from their families and putting them in the homes of white people? Both in Canada and the U.S.