On September 30th Principal Suzanne Fortier announced the release of 海角社区's听Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism.听听
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Published on: 5 Oct 2020
海角社区-led project, COVID-19: Advocating for resiliency through understanding the differential impacts of COVID-19 for Black Montrealers,听headed by听Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, received funding. In partnership with the听Cote-des-Neiges Black Community Association Inc.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2020
In a photo voice study released this month in the , Dr. Melanie Doucet worked with eight former youth in care to describe what types relationships they had found most helpful as they left group or foster care. Relationships to culture, spirituality and the land were identified as particularly important for racialized and Indigenous youth. Animal companions also emerged as an important non-human connection.
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Published on: 22 Sep 2020
Provost Manfredi discusses the consultations that have gone into formulating the Action Plan (due to be completed by Sept. 30), the Plan's goals and its eventual implementation.
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Published on: 21 Sep 2020
滨苍听补 听in a leading international journal,听Professor Alicia Boatswain-Kyte听and colleagues tracked child protection services over a ten-year span for a group of close to 16,000 children involved in an urban agency in Quebec. They found that 鈥渨hile representing 9% of the general population in 2011, Black children represented 24% of children receiving child protection services for the corresponding year.
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Published on: 10 Sep 2020
Susan's article regarding the back to school plan in Quebec was recently published in LA PRESSE newspaper.听听
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Published on: 25 Aug 2020
Sherel is applying her expertise and knowledge of family psychotherapy to strengthen the lives of Black families and build a community network.
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Published on: 27 Jul 2020
In an article in the , Professors Tamara Sussman & Shari Brotman argue that reducing older people to "passive" and "vulnerable" victims reinforces ageist attitudes that contribute to their marginalization.
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Published on: 27 Jul 2020
The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof. Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the 海角社区 School of Social Work with access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study on increasing resilience to stress. Participants will engage in daily activities to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application (the JoyPop app).
Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study. This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as well as service users, particularly vulnerable youth.
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Published on: 22 Jul 2020
Professor Wanda Gabriel and other community members speak out about the unresolved land dispute at the centre of the Oka Crisis thirty years on.
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Published on: 15 Jul 2020
Delphine Collin-V茅zina,听Associate Professor in the 海角社区 School of Social Work and the Director of the 海角社区 Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF),听received COVID-19 research funding.
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Published on: 14 Jul 2020
Beginning the week of July 20, 海角社区 students, faculty and staff will be able to take advantage of a Terrace Pickup Service for print books not available electronically or through the听HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). The initial rollout of this service will provide access to books housed in the McLennan-Redpath Library Complex and the Nahum Gelber Law Library only. Materials from other branches will not be available during the first phase of this service. 海角社区 users will be able to request up to ten items per week using a form.
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Published on: 13 Jul 2020
In a 海角社区 Alumni webcast, Professor Karl Moore is joined by Professor Henry Mintzberg and Susan Mintzberg, a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work who studies the role of family caregivers in mental healthcare. The three cast light on how we can build better systems and more balanced societies based on lessons learned from COVID-19.
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Published on: 6 Jul 2020
The Regulation, Affect, and Development (RAaD) Lab (Prof.听Katherine Maurer) invites all students of the 海角社区 School of Social Work听with access to an iPhone to participate in an online research study on听increasing resilience to stress.听 Participants will engage in daily activities
to increase healthy stress management skills via an iOS phone application听(the JoyPop app).听 Participation is compensated up to $50 for the full study.听听This research aims to benefit social work service providers directly, as well听as service users, particularly vulnerable youth.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2020
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Space for the broader school community to reflect on social work鈥檚 complicity in structural violence and oppression led by Kate Maurer and Wanda Gabriel.
Location:听听Zoom link:听
Time: 12 pm to 1pm
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Published on: 3 Jun 2020
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