• To know us is to know an ocean: A racialized social worker’s unruly, Mad, decolonial autoethnography 

  Sharma, Aman K (2023-04-26)

  This research explores the implications of my life as a racialized social worker with lived experience of psychiatrization, practicing in the mental health field in British Columbia. Situated in the context of BC’s involuntary ...
• Community Drug Checking and Substance Use Stigma: An Analysis of Stigma-Related Barriers and Potential Responses 

  Davis, Samantha (2022-09-12)

  The illicit drug overdose crisis is an ongoing epidemic that continues to take lives at unprecedented rates and British Columbia, Canada has been identified as the epicenter in Canada, where approximately five deaths per ...
• How to Assess and Mitigate Risk from a Mi'kmaq Perspective 

  MacEachern, Mary (2022-09-07)

  Within the journey of self-determination, Indigenous Peoples are creating various systems that reflect their ways of knowing and being. Mi’kmaq Family & Children Services is such an agency, however, it is mandated to use ...
• We were children and we are human beings: Tsartlip Indian Day School student experiences 

  Carolyn, Sampson Thulih’Wul Wut’ XET’XOT’EL,WET (2022-02-25)

  Storytelling was utilized to capture the experiences of Tsartlip Indian Day School students by telling their stories. Storytelling is a way of living, being, and a way of knowing, while walking with the voices of our ...
• Honouring our ancestral wisdom: a Squamish way of life 

  McReynolds, Kelley (2021-09-29)

  The foundation of this research was to establish a framework based on ceremonial work, gathering around fires of the longhouse to honour our ancestral wisdom. As a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Coast Salish researcher and social work ...
• Where are persons with disabilities? A reflexive thematic analysis of Federal Government climate change documents 

  MacDonald, Sarah Ellen (2021-09-15)

  While persons with disabilities are not a homogenous group, most are likely to be disproportionately impacted by climate change and the “natural” disasters that result from these changes. As a social worker living with ...
• Voices in the media: key stakeholders and the overdose crisis 

  Booth, Katyanna (2021-08-26)

  Opioid overdose deaths have impacted the lives of countless Canadians at unprecedented rates and have taken the lives of over 19,000 people since 2016, over 4,000 of those deaths occurred in 2017. The overdose crisis has ...
• Centering a Métis grandmothers’ knowledge: story of grandmothers’ teachings and Métis child welfare in B.C. 

  LaFrance, Shelley Angela (2021-07-29)

  Despite decades of evidence in Canada of injustices involving child welfare systems and outstanding recommendations, the overrepresentation and harm to Indigenous children, youth, and families remain (Blackstock, 2011, ...
• Fat bodies in space: explorations of an alternate narrative 

  Webb, Natasha K. (2021-05-03)

  For far too long ‘obesity’ and healthcare have been inextricably linked, both forming and maintaining distinct narratives responsible for the “fear of fat” North American societies have embraced. Largely unrecognized, ...
• Intergenerational trauma and stories of healing through Jesus 

  Mohammed, Dionne A. (2021-04-29)

  Through a storytelling/yarning methodology (Bessarab & Ng'andu, 2010) and experience centered narrative research (Patterson, 2008), three Indigenous followers of Jesus and original inhabitants of the lands currently known ...
• Stitching ourselves back together: urban Indigenous women's experience of reconnecting with identity through beadwork 

  Bowler, Shawna (2020-11-04)

  This thesis explores how urban Indigenous women experience reconnections to cultural identity when they take up the practice of traditional beadwork. A beading methodology was used to explore the experiences of five urban ...
• Contesting care: applying a critical social citizenship lens to care for trans children 

  MacAdams, Alyx (2020-08-18)

  Recent years have seen an unprecedented paradigm shift wherein pathologizing approaches to caring for trans children have been contested by efforts to accept and affirm trans children as their self-determined gender. This ...
• Leadership supports for Indigenous staff with lived experience 

  Perrett, Sarah (2020-04-08)

  Social work practice involves acknowledging the interconnection between the personal and professional. Organizations hiring Indigenous staff are responsible to recognize the lived experience that comes with being an ...
• Wounded healer or stigmatized healer? First-person experience with suicidality among helping professionals in suicide prevention and intervention 

  Huss, Sabine (2020-02-18)

  This study sought to explore the experiences of helping professionals who have first-hand lived experience with suicidal ideation or suicidal behaviour and who work with suicidal people. The research is placed in the ...
• How one becomes what one is: transformative journeys to allyship 

  Knudsgaard, Harald Bart (2020-01-09)

  This thesis explores the phenomenon of Indigenous/non-Indigenous allyship. In this thesis, Indigenous child welfare leaders were interviewed regarding their perspectives on allyship and were asked to identify non-Indigenous ...
• The connection between culture and wellness for indigenous social workers: how culturally-grounded practice can impact our work with children, families and communities 

  Brown, Alysha Kerry Anne (2019-12-23)

  Reflecting on my own experience as an Indigenous social worker, and a thorough literature review of mostly other Indigenous researchers, I addressed the following questions: What can wellness look like for Indigenous social ...
• An inquiry into the stories of First Nations Fathers and their path to Fatherhood: a narrative analysis conducted with Kwakwaka’wakw Fathers 

  Johnston, Tanille (2019-12-18)

  The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the other works that have been done in the area of Fatherhood in hopes to cause a shift in child welfare practice. Moving child welfare away from mother-centrism, and towards ...
• There goes the neighbourhood: a case study of social mix in Vancouver's downtown eastside 

  Edelman, Valerya (2019-05-01)

  Social mix is a highly contested global trend in urban planning as it can result in some of the same negative social consequences as gentrification, such as displacement and social polarization. In 2014, the City of Vancouver ...
• Stress in corrections: a critical racist, feminist and neoliberalism analysis 

  Shoker, Jasbir Kaur (2019-01-25)

  This study explores the risk and resiliency factors for stress within a correctional environment and how correctional staff are impacted personally and professionally by occupational stress. Employing a qualitative research ...
• The next chapter: a practical guide for individuals, families, communities, social workers, and organizations supporting indigenous youth aging-out of care 

  Mahikwa, Robert (2018-12-07)

  This research utilized Indigenous methodologies rooted in oral traditions, storytelling practices, and the Medicine Wheel teachings to examine how individuals, families, communities, social workers, and organizations can ...

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