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Discrepancies in the delivery of child welfare services
INCONSISTENCIES IN SOCIAL WORKER PRACTICE STANDARDS
Recommendation 7: MCFD should collaborate with Indigenous peoples to create a formal plan for recruitment and retention of Indigenous MCFD staff, with clear principles, goals, milestones, and timelines.-
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Discrepancies in the delivery of child welfare services
INCONSISTENCIES IN SOCIAL WORKER PRACTICE STANDARDS
Recommendation 8: MCFD must review hiring and human resource policies to remove barriers for Indigenous applicants and make workplaces safe for Indigenous employees-
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Discrepancies in the delivery of child welfare services
INCONSISTENCIES IN SOCIAL WORKER PRACTICE STANDARDS
Recommendation 9: MCFD should consider the creation of specialized, equitably-resourced, Indigenous-specific teams as recommended by Jane Rousseau in Struggling toward Indigenous representation and service improvement within the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development-
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Discrepancies in the delivery of child welfare services
INCONSISTENCIES IN SOCIAL WORKER PRACTICE STANDARDS
Recommendation 10: MCFD must ensure that efforts are embedded at all organizational levels including by training supervisors, providing opportunities for Indigenous managers, and promoting the involvement of Indigenous employees in strategic planning and practice development-
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Discrepancies in the delivery of child welfare services
Subtitle:SYSTEMIC RACISM
Recommendation 12: Project participants also expressed the need for training to cover the following topics: genderbased violence; Indigenous rights, identities, and cultures; the role of ongoing colonialism on intergenerational trauma; the potential for communities and families to provide more appropriate solutions to family healing; and the importance of culture and connection to the child’s well-being.-
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Discrepancies in the delivery of child welfare services
Subtitle:A TOP-DOWN APPROACH
Recommendation 13: MCFD must review its policies and practices to increase the use of ADR processes, including changing the definition of family in ADR processes to recognize and honour Indigenous conceptions of family.-
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Conclusion and Recommendations
Recommendations for improving prevention-based efforts
Recommendation 38: Funding for cultural programming that is consistent and frequent-
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