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This webinar will explore the concept of therapist bias through a framework of anti-oppression, privilege, and oppression. Participants will explore cases where microaggressions reflect therapist bias, examine specific ways racism, homophobia, and ableism affect the therapeutic alliance and influence the outcomes of therapy, and discuss the potential consequences of bias (i.e. misdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, hospitalization, stigma/shame, victim blaming). 

This bilingual webinar is the first in a series that focus on the 2024 Code of Ethics and Guidelines of Practice. In 2018 the CASW Board established a federation committee to review and revise the CASW Code of Ethics, Guidelines for Ethical Practice (2005) and Scope of Practice (2008) to reflect current social work practice with a commitment to upholding the ten principles of the TRC Commission. The webinar provides an overview of the new Code, highlights key changes, and discusses the process undertaken to consult with social workers across the nation. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussions. 

Premier d’une série, ce webinaire bilingue se penche sur le Code d’éthique et les Lignes directrices de 2024. En 2018, le comité de la fédération, créé par l’ACTS, s’est lancé dans la révision du Code de déontologie et des Lignes directrices de 2005 et 2008. Objectif : adapter ces documents aux réalités actuelles du travail social, tout en respectant les dix principes de la Commission de la CVR. Ce webinaire offre un aperçu du Code révisé, met en lumière les modifications importantes et explique le processus de consultation des travailleurs sociaux à l’échelle nationale. Une chance pour les participants d’interroger et d’échanger.

Trans and gender diverse community members experience significantly higher rates of both suicidality ideation and suicide attempt when compared with the general population. Research indicates that social and environmental factors play a significant role in high rates of suicidality within trans communities. This webinar will explore what we know about trans communities and suicide, and provide attendees with actionable recommendations to both better support trans community members struggling with suicide and address the factors leading to heightened risk of suicide within trans communities.

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand social and environmental factors influencing suicidality in trans and gender diverse communities.
• Understand possible interventions and strategies to address suicidality in trans communities, with a focus on youth suicide prevention.
• Gain new skills to bolster inclusive service provision within a trans-inclusive suicide prevention framework.

Workforce turnover and retention is a perennial concern for child welfare agency management with implications for service outcomes for families and children. Nevertheless, there is scant evidence supporting the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving retention. Combined with data from Human Resource (HR) and targeted staff surveys, continuous quality improvement applications (CQI) can help shape the scaffolding needed to increase the prospects for identifying, implementing, and evaluating more effective interventions. This webinar will provide evidence for the use of turnover intentions and statistical predictors as leading indicators of turnover. Combined with the capacity for real time trend monitoring these indicators can provide a basis for forecasting turnover, and monitoring interventions.

The Ministry of Children and Family Development’s primary focus is to support all children and youth in British Columbia to live in safe, healthy and nurturing families and be strongly connected to their communities and culture. The Ministry supports the well-being of children, youth and families in British Columbia by providing services that are accessible, inclusive, and culturally respectful.

The Ministry has long recognized the need to go beyond tracking outputs, focusing instead on actionable reporting to best support the well-being of children and families it serves. This presentation will review the evolution of the Ministry’s outcomes reporting and discuss its current initiative of developing a child well-being analytics framework that is child centric.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s (CHRT) rulings on First Nations child and family services (FNCFS) were to 1) end discrimination; 2) ensure it does not reoccur.  Upholding these rulings requires changes to the structure, funding, and accountability of the existing program.  With the ongoing collaboration and contributions of FNCFS agencies and First Nations, an approach with the goal of holistic well-being of children, families, and communities was developed.  This presentation will review the approach and considerations for the interconnections of structure, funding, and accountability.

This webinar will provide an overview of the Family Group Conference Program provided at Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre has been operating the Family Group Conference (FGC) program for approximately 20 years. It’s an Indigenous-led initiative in Manitoba that aims to provide a culturally safe and trauma-informed alternative to the mainstream child welfare system. The FGC model emphasizes family and community involvement in decision making about child welfare issues and allows family to become the decision-makers in the development of their care plan with their immediate and extended family members in their circle of Ceremony. Through the FGC program, we focus on supporting families to concentrate on rediscovering their gifts and abilities, reaffirming their extended family relationships, and to act in their own self-interest. This program is grounded in Indigenous cultural values and practices. This includes extended family involvement, and self-determination from a strength-based approach. This culturally based programming has been effective when working with families who have or are facing the effects of trauma.

This webinar is part of the Fall/Winter 2023 Beyond Neglect series, brought to you in partnership with the Child Welfare League of Canada.

This presentation will focus on the child advocacy work of the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) office. Participants will learn how programs at MACY represent the rights, interests, and viewpoints of children, youth, and young adults throughout Manitoba who are receiving, or should be receiving, provincial public services. This includes direct advocacy support to young people and their families, the review of public service delivery after the death or serious injury of a child, and child-centred research and evaluation regarding the effectiveness of public services in Manitoba. The Manitoba Advocate is empowered by legislation to make recommendations to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of services provided to children, youth, and young adults. MACY is mandated through The Advocate for Children and Youth Act, guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and acts according to the best interests of children and youth, including the need for culturally relevant services and supports.

This webinar is part of the Fall/Winter 2023 Beyond Neglect series, brought to you in partnership with the Child Welfare League of Canada.

This webinar features presentations from two secondary and tertiary intervention programs in Québec and Ontario. Operating across most of Québec and housed in the West-Central Montreal Integrated Health and Social Services Centre (CIUSSS), the Polarization Clinic is a team of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists, including child psychiatrists, providing specialized supports to individuals and families affected by radicalization to violence. The John Howard Society of Ottawa’s Project ReSet offers multi-disciplinary services in Eastern Ontario to support individuals and families affected by hate-motivated violence by providing interventions aimed at disengagement and reintegration for cases of radicalization to violence. Similar to webinar three, this session discusses the programs’ approaches, objectives and outcomes, as well as case management and interventions supporting disengagement from violent extremism.

This webinar is part of a series called, Preventing and Countering Radicalization to Violence in Canada: A Webinar Series with Frontline Practitioners on Evidence-Based Approaches, Multi-Agency Collaboration, and the Role of Social Work. This webinar series is brought to you in partnership with the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence.

This presentation will focus on the way the integrated hub model of services at RaY works to create a safe and inclusive space for youth from all cultural backgrounds. The presenters will begin by providing a brief overview of RaY's services and programs, followed by a more detailed discussion of RaY's cultural programming and how cultural safety is created across the agency as a whole, especially for youth from marginalized backgrounds, including those with experience in the child welfare system.

This webinar is part of the Fall/Winter 2023 Beyond Neglect series, brought to you in partnership with the Child Welfare League of Canada.