Parity in Child Welfare

Dr. Jennifer Hedges is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Social Work Inner City Social Work Program. She is the co-chair of the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium and co-chair of the International Association of Schools of Social Work Research Committee. Dr. Marlyn Bennett (WaaWaaTe Ikwe | Northern Lights Woman) is a proud member of the Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation and an Associate Professor in Social Work and Education at the University of Calgary. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Children's Wellbeing. Dr. Jason Albert (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the School of Indigenous Social Work, First Nations University of Canada, where he has been a faculty member since 2002. Dr. Peter Choate is a professor of Social Work at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Peter is an expert witness in social work with sub-specialties in the areas of case management, parenting capacity, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and cross-cultural assessment. Don Fuchs is Dean and Professor Emeritus at University of Manitoba, Faculty of Social Work. His scholarship has included groundbreaking research on Children in Care with FASD and other disabilities.

Foreword From the Editors Acknowledgements Introduction-Jason Albert & Christine Chateau Chapter 1-The Prairie Child Welfare Consortium Story: A Model for Collaboration-Jennifer Hedges Child Welfare Policy Chapter 2: The Talking Circle as an Approach to Indigenous Leadership within Indigenous Organizations-Christine Chateau and Jason Albert Chapter 3: Maori and Oranga Tamariki: Taku Kuru Pounamu, my precious treasure. Shifting power in Aotearoa New Zealand's foster system-Ka mihi nunui Kerri Cleaver Chapter 4: Preserving Indigenous children rights to connection within culture: Where do the priorities lie?-Peter W. Choate Chapter 5: Achieving Parity in Indigenous Child Welfare: The Promise of Bill C-92 and the Potential of Long-Term Reform to the First Nations Child and Family Services Program in Canada-Marlyn Bennett Child Welfare Practice Chapter 6: Grief in Child Welfare-Ashlee Homewood Chapter 7: Child protection workers and the impact of difficult work: Going beneath the surface-Faye Hamilton Chapter 8: The complexity of family for children in care-Christina Tortorelli Chapter 9: Making Sense of Complicated Love: Partners of child sexual abuse perpetrators speak-Lorna Hanson and Eveline Milliken Child Welfare Research Chapter 10: Examining child poverty and child neglect within the sustainable development goals framework-Daniel Kikulwe, Peyton Drynan, and Mykayla Blackman Chapter 11: Introducing the Childhood Adversity and Resilience Research Training Platform (CARe RTP): Bringing Together Community Partners, Students, and Academics to Increase Research Capacity to Generate Impactful Research in Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare-Ashley Stewart-Tufescu, Tracie O. Afifi, Tamara L. Taillieu, Jamie Pfau, Julie-Anne McCarthy, Ana Osorio and Lauren MacGowan Chapter 12: Social Work Education for Social Justice Work in Child Welfare-Jennifer Hedges Epilogue-Marlyn Bennett, PhD Abstracts Author Biographies