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In history's shadow: Child welfare discourses regarding Indigenous communities in the Canadian Social Work journal
No full textThis article was originally published as: Schmid, J. & Morgenshtern, M. (2022). In history's shadow: Child welfare discourses regarding Indigenous communities in the Canadian Social Work journal. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Services, 13(1), 145-168. It is available at: https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijcyfs/article/view/20662This article reviews all items in the Canadian Social Work journal over
its almost 90-year history that relate to child welfare practice in an Indigenous
context. We review the journal contents as a way of understanding the profession’s
voice, noting that a journal’s discursive practice reflects disciplinary discourse and
that this journal positioned itself as a platform for social work debates. Our analysis
contributes also to the truth-telling and accountability of social workers. While
around 10% of the 1500 journal articles focused on child welfare practice, only 9
of these 152 articles addressed child welfare practice with Indigenous children and
families. Our discourse analysis highlights that there was contemporaneous silence
regarding social work complicity in the residential schools movement, the Sixties
Scoop, and the current Millennium Scoop. In the 1980s, sustained critique around
the role of social work in perpetuating colonization began to emerge. The journal,
though, left child protection discourse unexamined and thus overlooked its role in
maintaining dominant Canadian child welfare practice. We suggest that White
supremacy and settler colonial discourses support the dominance of the child
protection discourse, and that part of decolonizing child welfare practice relates to
revealing and resisting these discourses and generating alternative decolonized
discourses.https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/25740/Schmid2022.pdf?sequence=
Jamrach’s Menagerie: art at sea
No full texthttps://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/26021/Walker.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=yWinning essay - English Department Competition 2021-2022Winning essay - ENGL 27
Planning for sustainable seaweed aquaculture on the east coast of Central Vancouver Island
No full textVancouver Island’s food system has low resiliency, which means that it cannot quickly adapt to external shocks and stresses. The result of this low resiliency is that the communities on the Island are left vulnerable to food shortages in times of crisis. Increasing the amount of food produced by Vancouver Island communities can help improve the food system resiliency. One crop which would be beneficial for communities to produce is seaweed, and Vancouver Island has been identified as the ideal place for BC to establish a thriving seaweed aquaculture industry. Worldwide studies indicate that introducing seaweed aquaculture to a community can provide numerous economic, environmental, and food security benefits. Planners can support the growth of this new industry by developing zoning bylaws that allow for the cultivation and processing of seaweed, creating official community plans that support the expansion of the industry, helping to preserve valuable aquaculture infrastructure, and raising awareness of the industry amongst the community members.https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/25316/FoulkesMajorProject.pdf?sequence=3Thesis/major project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Community Planning in the Department of Community Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vancouver Island University
Crisis communication by school leaders during the COVID-19 global pandemic
No full textSchools are not immune to crises. Whether it be earthquakes, wildfires, shootings, or global pandemics, schools will always be required to react quickly and efficiently to crises (Liou, 2015, p. 248). One large component of this reaction is communication. Therefore, school leaders need to be prepared to communicate quickly, efficiently, and effectively both internally and with the broader community during times of crisis. The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 created an exceptional urgency for schools to practice and refine their crisis communication as they dealt with the ongoing pandemic (Government of Canada, 2022). In British Columbia, the pandemic caused a state of emergency that has lasted nearly a year and a half (Lawson et al., 2021). During this time, schools went through many different situations of crisis, including short-term emergencies and long-term sustained stress. Schools also needed to react quickly to changing government guidelines, community exposures and public health directives (BC Ministry of Health, 2021). The purpose of this study is to examine the opportunities and challenges that arose as school leaders attempted to develop best practices, processes and procedures that amounted to effective communication during an unprecedented international health emergency
Plan Canada - Volume 62, Number 1 (Spring 2022)
No full textThe future of work|L'avenir du travail / Haiqing Xu & Glenn Miller -- Automation, telework and the gig economy: Different implications for different workers / Marc Frenette, René Morissette, Yuri Ostrovsky, & Grant Schellenberg -- Work of the future: Land use planning in a post-pandemic world / Eric Aderneck -- Rebooting the way we plan for work / Melanie Hare -- Neighbourhood pocket parks as catalysts for socio-economic resilience / Gloria Venczel -- The evolution of employment land / Antony P. Lorius -- Challenges of growth and development amidst the housing crisis: Perspectives of two municipal planners / Casandra Begin & Hena Kabir -- World views on work: A roundup of what organizations are thinking / Glenn Miller -- Upcoming themes|Thème à venir -- Musings on the future of work|Réflexions sur l'avenir / Nick Tunnacliffe -- Planning research digest|Condensé de recherches en urbanisme -- Planner's bookshelf|L'étagère du planificateurThe future of work|L'avenir du travailThe future of work|L'avenir du travail / Haiqing Xu & Glenn Miller -- Automation, telework and the gig economy: Different implications for different workers / Marc Frenette, René Morissette, Yuri Ostrovsky, & Grant Schellenberg -- Work of the future: Land use planning in a post-pandemic world / Eric Aderneck -- Rebooting the way we plan for work / Melanie Hare -- Neighbourhood pocket parks as catalysts for socio-economic resilience / Gloria Venczel -- The evolution of employment land / Antony P. Lorius -- Challenges of growth and development amidst the housing crisis: Perspectives of two municipal planners / Casandra Begin & Hena Kabir -- World views on work: A roundup of what organizations are thinking / Glenn Miller -- Upcoming themes|Thème à venir -- Musings on the future of work|Réflexions sur l'avenir / Nick Tunnacliffe -- Planning research digest|Condensé de recherches en urbanisme -- Planner's bookshelf|L'étagère du planificateu
Expressing civic rights for individuals with intellectual disabilities : social network responsibility and silences in communication
No full textThis study explores the role of communications in the understanding of expressions of civic rights for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). One expression of the low social capital held by individuals with IDD is their low rate of participation in elections. Electors in Canada are not subject to capacity testing but individuals with IDD experience unique barriers to voting—primarily informational and attitudinal—which effectively disenfranchise what is already a vulnerable population. The study uses Situational Analysis to analyse online survey, semi-structured interview, and discursive data. The data were focused on the social networks of individuals with IDD as key facilitators of electoral participation; mapping of the social worlds and arenas revealed the positions held within those worlds. Parents/caregivers were found to be critical facilitators—and potential gatekeepers—to this participation. The study found that efforts to mitigate barriers to political participation for individuals with IDD must address the important role played by social networks—including parents and caregivers—in that participation
A decolonial love story : matriarchs living In kinship with mother earth
No full textThis research is both partial autoethnography and ethnography. It is the telling of a decolonial love story intended to challenge the more dominant, patriarchal narrative through storytelling. Wisdom shared from matriarchs in leadership roles in their families or communities was gathered using open-ended interviews intended to add a greater presence of matriarchal insights within environmental education. Sharing a variety of stories in this way, celebrates both convergences and divergences on the path of life from those whose voices are not necessarily heard in the mainstream literature. These interviews were carefully braided by the researcher into a fourth story, while staying true to the women’s voices who found that matriarchal stories can provide deep nourishment with implications for a regenerative, rematriated relationship with Mother Earth. Researching the womens’ lived experiences with land through deep listening, ceremony, and relationships provided the guidance to share a love letter for the researcher’s young daughter, found at the end of this thesis.
Keywords: Autoethnography, ethnography, women, storytelling, story listening, matriarch, ceremony, decolonial love, environmental educatio
Help! I don’t feel safe : journeys of psychological safety shared by psychiatric nurses
No full textThis inquiry explored the psychological safety and coping strategies of registered psychiatric nurses (RPNs). The healthcare sector has struggled with workplace safety, bullying, and mental health support for nurses, all exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. In this inquiry, a storytelling method was employed in online interviews with five RPNs. Given that in the forensic workplace, organizational leaders have an important role in promoting psychological safety for RPNs, study participants sought support from a leader and the responses affected RPNs’ sense of safety in the workplace. Leaders’ capacity for empathy and inclusion were key elements in fostering a sense of psychological safety in the workplace. Organizational leadership as well as coworkers who judge, shame, are exclusive, and lack respect impact RPNs’ sense of psychological safety. Recommendations to foster psychological safety in the workplace are to model inclusive, empathetic, and open communication to encourage staff to adopt these approaches in the workplace
Fostering Thompson Region primary care provider leadership
No full textExtreme weather events such as wildfires and floods have impacted rural communities in British Columbia’s interior in recent years. This action-oriented study explored the following primary research question: “How might the Thompson Region Division of Family Practice foster primary care provider leadership during extreme weather events?” This project was designed following the Royal Roads University Ethics Policy and Tri-Council Ethical Guidelines and used qualitative interviews in combination with an arts-based method to generate stories about leadership during displacement due to wildfires and floods from rural-practicing primary care providers. Study findings revealed five key themes: lack of primary care provider involvement in emergency response, preparation and experience, values and leadership styles, collaboration and teamwork, and personal and professional balance. The resulting recommendations were to involve primary care providers in emergency preparedness and response, offer or promote leadership opportunities for primary care providers, and share supports for providers and patients
Unpacking form-based codes in a British Columbia planning context
No full textThere is consensus amongst the critics of Euclidean zoning that the tool has produced undesirable, unsustainable, and inequitable places. However, without the existence of a revised zoning framework, a major issue in our land-use planning today is that we have modern goals of sustainable design, compact development, and equitable policy while using a regulatory tool that is based on outdated principles. Form-based codes (FBCs) have been advertised as the answer to our planning problems, yet there has been little uptake in British Columbia. This thesis explores the debate around zoning reform, and more specifically, form-based zoning. The research explores the applicability of FBCs to British Columbia planning by taking a legal perspective on the limits to the zoning power under the Local Government Act and explores whether local governments are approximating FBCs. By conducting a comparative case study analysis between Seaside, Florida and Whistler, British Columbia, this research finds that while the BC municipality may be approximating an FBC with other regulatory methods, these tools are inconsistent in achieving central goals of the FBC movement and add to an already complex development process. The study concludes with key learnings and recommendations on how to best move forward with zoning in British Columbia.https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/25763/BellThesis.pdf?sequence=3Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Community Planning in the Department of Community Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vancouver Island University