Protecting Aboriginal Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774811712)

Since the 1980s, bands and tribal councils have developed unique community-based child welfare services to better protect Aboriginal children. Protecting Aboriginal Children explores contemporary approaches to the protection of Aboriginal children through interviews with practising social workers employed at Aboriginal child welfare organizations and the child protection service in British Columbia. It places current practice in a sociohistorical context, describes emerging practice in decolonizing communities, and identifies the effects of political and media controversy on social workers. This is the first book to document emerging practice in Aboriginal communities and describe child protection practice simultaneously from the point of view of the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social worker.

Author: Chris Walmsley
ISBN-10: 0774811714
ISBN-13: 9780774811712
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.83w x 0.55d