Case Critical: Social Services and Social Justice in Canada

Cover
Praise for Case Critical
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
	A Note about Quotes, Co-authors, and Formatting
1 Ntamkidwinan First Words
	Welcome
	An Anishinaabe Elder’s Perspectives
2 Power, Ideology, and Social Services
	Ongoing Colonialism and Its Consequences
	Canadian Apology for Residential Schools
	Indigenous Child Removal System and the “Sixties Scoop”
	Today’s Colonialism
	Individualism and Privilege
	Progressive Social Work
3 Naming and Resisting Injustices
	Colonial Privilege
	Racism and Privilege
	Class Privilege
	Patriarchal Privilege
	Heterosexual/Cisgender Privilege
	Ableism and Privilege
	Social Justice and Social Services
4 Roots: Early Attitudes
	Early North American Social Welfare
	“Survival of the Fittest” – Social Darwinism
	Social Work: The Beginnings
	Oppression and Resistance
	Indigenous “Assimilation” and Resistance
	Inuit and Métis
	Early 1900s Unrest
	Social Programs and Social Injustices
	Resistance and Progressive Movement
	Neoliberal Backlash
5 Diverging Schools of Altruism
	Conflicts inside the Social Work Curriculum
	Conventional: Ecological-Systems Theory
	Anti-Oppression Perspectives
	The Controversy about Competency Models
	From Aboriginal Circles in the Classroom to Indigenizing Social Work
	Four Principles of Good Practice
6 Social Workers: On the Front Line
	Where Social Workers Work
	How People Become Social Service Users
	Hierarchies and the Stratification of Social Services
	The Challenge of Social Work
	The Bottom Line: Managerialized Social Services
	Privatization of Social Services
	A Challenge: This Story Must Change
7 Reality Check: Service Users’ Experience
	Welfare “Reform”: Smoke and Mirrors
	Different Shades of Social Coercion
	Caring Social Services: Take a Deep Bow
8 Challenging Feeling Hopeless
	Social Justice Movements
	Labour Unions and Social Work
	Dealing with Challenges: Tiny Miracles
	Alternative Social Services
	An Activist Agenda by Progressive Social Workers
9 Toward Liberation
	Challenging Multiple Oppressions
	Themes for Liberation in Social Work Practice
	Indigenous Healing and Liberation
	Liberation and Social Services
	The Pendulum of Practice: A Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence
	Completing a Cultural Competence Self-Audit
	Competence Matrix
	Supporting and Actualizing Transformation
10 Nawây-pîkiskwêwina After Words
	Can we go where we have never been?
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