• Handicapped children's services : policy, practice and implementation: an analysis 

  Crocker, Cheryl Lynn (2018-02-14)

  Handicapped Children's Services is a provincial program designed to support the families of children with disabilities to maintain their children at home. Recently, the government of Alberta has shifted responsibility and ...
• The aboriginal justice inquiry-child welfare initiative in manitoba: a study of the process and outcomes for Indigenous families and communities from a front line perspective 

  Gosek, Gwendolyn M (2017-12-22)

  As the number of Indigenous children and youth in the care of Manitoba child welfare steadily increases, so do the questions and public debates. The loss of children from Indigenous communities due to residential schools ...
• Seeking social services on the Gaspé Coast: a narrative analysis of anglophones’ experiences of access and care 

  Finlayson, Sarah (2017-05-02)

  This research addresses the concern that Anglophone populations in the predominantly French speaking Gaspé region of eastern Québec are experiencing high rates of social problems such as poverty and unemployment. Anglophones ...
• Genealogy of Resilience in the Ontario Looking After Children System 

  Latour, Laurie-Carol (2017-01-03)

  Resiliency has become common in child welfare parlance in recent decades and producing resilient youth is touted as the panacea to improving notoriously poor outcomes for youth in care, when compared to youth not in the ...
• That’s my Grandma: my Grandmother’s stories, resistance and remembering 

  King, Jennifer (2016-08-31)

  Knowing our stories as Indigenous peoples is a powerful means of remembering and resurgence. My research used an Indigenous storytelling methodology to gather stories from my Grandmother about her life and our family. The ...
• First Nations experiences with adoption and reunification: a family and community process 

  Starr, Lenora (2016-08-30)

  This thesis, or storytelling journey, examines the stories of four First Nations adults who survived cross-cultural adoption into non-First Nations families and reunification with their birth families and/or communities. ...
• Adult Palliative Care Providers and Their Interactions with Children of Palliative Patients: A Situational Analysis of Dominant Grief Discourse 

  Scott, Ian (2015-10-14)

  Health care providers (HCPs) who work in adult palliative care occasionally encounter children who have a parent who is dying. This grounded theory (GT) study examines how adult palliative care providers respond to the ...
• De-Colonizing Post Secondary Education: Using Ktunaxa students’ experiences to inform decolonization processes of post secondary institutions 

  Haley, Wendy (2015-09-01)

  Post secondary institutions are a product of, and teach colonial ontology, epistemology and axiology. Because of this, there is significant under-representation of Indigenous students who pursue post secondary education. ...
• Risky Business: Child Protection in Canada 

  Hebditch, Heidi (2015-04-27)

  Risk assessment is ‘risky business’ when we consider that it is based on the individual values, knowledge, experience and personality of thousands of unique social workers throughout the Country. And, combined with the ...
• Exploring experiences of men accessing residential addictions services: towards an anti-oppressive policy development and implementation perspective 

  Streibel, Mark (2015-04-15)

  Many men seek to address their substance use issues in a variety of resources including hospitals, detoxification centres, treatment programs, supportive recovery housing and more. How policy is constructed and implemented ...
• Indigenous Ceremony and Traditional Knowledge: Exploring their use as models for healing the impacts of traumatic experiences 

  Nyman, Sheila A. (2015-01-21)

  Using Indigenous methodology and a story telling method this thesis is the result of research that looks at the benefits of traditional Indigenous ceremony and healing practices as a way to heal from traumatic experiences. ...
• Cognitive difference in a postmodern world : Asperger's, autism, stigma, and diagnosis 

  Gates, Gordon (2014-09-02)

  Asperger’s was eliminated as a distinct diagnosis in the DSM-5. While controversy lingers over the assimilation of Asperger’s into autism spectrum disorder, my study explores the experience of stigma through interviews ...
• The Frontline Workers' Perspective on Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice 

  Rivet, Michelle K. (2014-08-29)

  Through my research I explored the frontline worker’s perspective of anti-oppressive child welfare practice (AOP). Five frontline workers from the Children’s Aid Society of Brant, Ontario (Brant CAS) were interviewed to ...
• The Community Support Worker of the 1980s, as She was Imagined: A Genealogy 

  Cambiazo, Pamela (2014-08-25)

  I am a community support worker who supports people with intellectual disabilities to live full lives with dignity in the community. This is a role that can trace its heritage to the 1980s when large institutions in BC ...
• Maintaining Workers Resolve: Examining Influential Factors and Supports Leading to Long-Term Worker Permanence in Child Welfare 

  Howard-Peacock, Suzanne (2014-06-02)

  Retention of experienced workers is an ongoing challenge in child protection social work. The purpose of this study is to understand more about the permanence of frontline child protection workers, where permanence is ...
• Cultural Permanence for Indigenous Children and Youth in Care: Advancing Knowledge and Current Practices for Promoting Resiliency and Belonging 

  Bennett, Kathleen (2014-04-29)

  This thesis is concerned with cultural connection and its role in creating cultural permanence when planning for Indigenous children and youth in care. Its goal is to mitigate the current path of disconnection and imbalance ...
• From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times 

  MacLeod, Suzanne (2014-03-26)

  As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs ...
• Narrative practice: encouraging preferred identities with male youth who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviours 

  Flower, Jennifer (2014-03-20)

  This thesis examines narrative practice in relation to identities of male youth (12-18) who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviours. To answer the following research question: How do male youth who have engaged in ...
• Behind the colonial wall: the chains that bind resistance 

  St. Germain, Brenda (2014-03-20)

  The “colonial wall” is the analogy drawn between a visible, physical barrier designed to confine, control, and contain a nation and a psychological barrier designed to control, confine, and contain a nation by internalized ...
• Giving voice to one legacy of foster care : how Aboriginal females have resisted the effects of sexualized violence in the foster system in British Columbia 

  Dallaire, Rachelle (2014-03-18)

  The Ministry of Child and Family Development (MCFD) plays a critical role in creating assessment tools, producing policies endorsing ‘best practices’, assuring and alleging equity and safety in its child welfare practices ...

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