This is the final document adopted at the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) General Assemblies in 2020. The updated ...Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training is the product of an extensive global consultation that lasted for more than 18 months and included a wide range of social work academics, practitioners and experts by experience across 125 countries, represented by 5 regional associations and engaging with approximately 400 universities and further education organisations. The consultation and publication process was co-ordinated by Professor Vasilios Ioakimidis (IFSW) and Professor Dixon Sookraj (IASSW).
Common Insights, Differing Methodologies Evans, Mike; Hole, Rachelle; Berg, Lawrence D. ...
Qualitative inquiry,
05/2009, Letnik:
15, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In this article, we discuss three broad research approaches: indigenous methodologies, participatory action research, and White studies. We suggest that a fusion of these three approaches can be ...useful, especially in terms of collaborative work with indigenous communities. More specifically, we argue that using indigenous methodologies and participatory action research, but refocusing the object of inquiry directly and specifically on the institutions and structures that indigenous peoples face, can be a particularly effective way of transforming indigenous peoples from the objects of inquiry to its authors. A case study focused on the development of appropriate research methods for a collaborative project with the urban aboriginal communities of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada, provides an illustration of the methodological fusion we propose.
• Summary: This component of a larger participatory qualitative case study investigated how urban Aboriginal human service organizations respond to the needs of the growing Aboriginal populations ...residing in three small cities in the Interior region of British Columbia, Canada. The study focused specifically on the challenges that the organizations experienced in delivering health and social services, and in facilitating access to mainstream services. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight senior administrators from seven urban Aboriginal organizations.
• Findings: Participants reported numerous barriers to delivering adequate and culturally appropriate services. Their organizations were challenged to provide a complex array of services to a culturally diverse urban Aboriginal population. Moreover, these organizations operated in turbulent economic, institutional and political environments, which presented additional challenges in several areas: recruiting and retaining qualified Aboriginal staff; securing funding; meeting different and conflicting accountability requirements; using political influence; and linking with both mainstream organizations and local Aboriginal communities.
• Applications: Fundamental tensions between the existing specialized and expert-based, mainstream system and Aboriginal service providers’ holistic approach to well-being are apparent. Implications for future research, policy and practice needed to promote the development of culturally appropriate and responsive services are discussed.
... a forum was organized to evaluate Kelowna's readiness to deal with its changing population (Steyn 2008), 3 and a program called "OK to Say" (www.oktosay.ca) provided a crisis line, support, and ...referrals for victims of racism in the Okanagan Valley. ... we argue that the City of Kelowna is racialized as a white space (Aguiar, Tomic, and Trumper 2005b; Koroscil 2008; Peake and Ray 2001; Razack 2002) in which non-whites are not welcome (Drury forthcoming).
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Dostopno za:
DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, ODKLJ, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
This paper examines bureaucratic structures and the interplay of race, place and institutional ethics involved in a process of establishing a multi-cultural research project with Aboriginal peoples ...in a Canadian urban context. The paper focuses on the way that one of Canada's national research councils (SSHRC) has attempted to respond positively to contest the marginalization of Aboriginal people in research settings. In revising its research ethics policies to better protect Aboriginal peoples involved in research projects that it funds, SSHRC policy has had the somewhat contradictory effect of further marginalizing urban Aboriginal people. The paper is thus an attempt to illustrate empirically some of the power laden character of the ethics of 'participation'. A key point we wish to illustrate is that especially in Participatory Action Research, the who and the how of participation is never innocent or purely process driven, but rather always already power- full. These power relations have significant implications for the way that we should understand ethics as relational processes in research with Aboriginal and other indigenous peoples. Reprinted by permission of the author
This study examines predictors of service delivery to under-served clients by nonprofit human service organizations. It utilizes an organization-in-environment conceptual framework which integrates ...elements of institutional, micro-economic, niche, population/organizational ecology, and resource dependence theories. The data, which represent a probability sample of 342 nonprofit units, were obtained through a larger national telephone survey of outpatient substance abuse treatment units conducted in 1988 and 1990. The three measures of service delivery to under-served clients used are services to (1) low income, (2) visible minority and (3) free-service clients. Overall, the results of hierarchical OLS regression analyses show that concepts, such as competition, donation, federal government funding, predictability of the resource environment, and specialization, do not contribute significantly to the prediction of any of the three dependent variables. Few of the remaining independent variables remain significant in the parsimonious prediction models obtained through 'step down' procedures. First, (1) certification, (2) number of funding sources, (3) number of private insurance clients' (4) professionalism, (5) sale of services to private purchasers, and (6) year of founding, are not significant. Second, state government funding is related positively to service delivery to minority and free service clients, but not to low income clients in general. Third, local government funding is related positively to services to only minority clients; this relationship is also mitigated by expenditures on salaries and benefits. Fourth, local government funding is related to the delivery of free services, but this relationship is moderated by the extent to which the units (or their representatives) are involved in the field. Fifth, excess revenue generated through the sale of services to government or private purchasers is related only to service delivery to minority clients, and this relationship depends on the level of expenditure on salaries and benefits. And finally, by being involved in the field, the units (or their representatives) are able to moderate the effects of local government funding on service delivery to free-service clients. Overall, the findings provide mixed support for institutional and resource dependence theories, minimal support for economic theories, and no support for niche and population/organizational theories. Implications of these findings for under-served clients are discussed.
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