Background Info.
This is a term that refers to a period of time in Canada, in which Indigenous children were removed from their families and adopted out.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
This is a term that refers to the mistrust and negative thought processes passed through families.
What is intergenerational trauma?
These people are often the bridge between youth and institutions like schools and social services.
What are Child and Youth Care workers?
This is a field in which Indigenous families experience disproportionate risks and chances of losing children through state intervention.
What is Child Welfare?
This is something that Indigenous ways of parenting and communicating are seen as, through a Western lens.
What are "problems"?
We must seek what from families before jumping to action, especially in situations that might involve child welfare?
This is the province that had the most residential schools in Canada.
What is Alberta?
This is something that leads to harmful assumptions and actions when teachers and school staff lack this.
What is cultural understanding?
Our well-intentioned efforts at this (curriculum, training etc.) may be superficial if they don’t change underlying power dynamics, trust deficits, and bias.
What is reconciliation?
This is the group of people whose experiences are the main focus in the article.
What are Indigenous families?
What schools or other systems call “support” might feel like ______ to Indigenous youth and their families.
What is surveillance or punishment?
Teachers and social workers are positioned as _____ between families and the state.
What are mediators?