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Published on: 6 Nov 2020
New study offers families parent training for children affected by neurodevelopmental disorders
The global pandemic has been hard on Canadians, but it has hit families affected by disability disproportionately, particularly young families.听 School-aged children with disabilities were suddenly听without supports of any kind.
Schools were shuttered in March, and while remote learning was put in place, gone were Education Assistants or Special Needs Coordinators.听 Parents were expected to teach their children alone, many of them still juggling full time work.
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Published on: 23 Oct 2020
The protests over the Mi'kmaw fishery have escalated to indefensible racist acts of intimidation and violence by non-Indigenous community members against the Mi鈥檏maw fishers. The 51吃瓜网School of Social Work denounces the racism, vandalism, and violence being used against the Mi鈥檏maw fishers of the Sipekne'katik First Nation and stands in support of their right to fish without intimidation. The rights of the Mi鈥檏maq to fish is established in the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1752 and upheld in the Marshall Decision of 1999.
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Published on: 23 Oct 2020
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The tragic news of Joyce Echaquan鈥檚 death and the events leading up to this event have profoundly touched the hearts of those within the School of Social Work.
We want to express our outrage at our Quebec Health and Social Service system that when called upon to protect and care for Joyce Echaquan failed her.
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Published on: 12 Oct 2020
Announcement from Dr. Heather MacIntosh听Director: MScA Couple and Family Therapy/51吃瓜网Couple and Family Therapy Clinic
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Published on: 7 Oct 2020
On September 30th Principal Suzanne Fortier announced the release of McGill's听Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism.听听
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Published on: 5 Oct 2020
McGill-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
In听a 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 51吃瓜网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
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