Oct 26, 2022 — This is the second of a series about Mi’kmaw culture & heritage. Gerald Gloade will lead members through what social workers need to know when visiting Mi’kmaw people, in order to ensure culturally sensitive services.
Sept 30, 2022 — This is the first of a series about Mi’kmaw culture & heritage. Gerald Gloade will lead members through exploring the traditional districts of Mi’kma’ki through the lens of the Mi’kmaw language, a verb-based language that describes how each of these areas got their name.
Jun 30, 2022 — As National Indigenous History Month comes to a close, on the eve of a celebration of nationalism, let us reflect upon the treaties that enable us to live here, on Turtle Island. This weekend, and every day, let us listen, learn and do what we can to honour these treaties and the people whose lands we live within.
Jun 1, 2022 — There are many ways to honour National Indigenous Peoples Month, especially for those of us who are not Indigenous to Mi’kma’ki. The NSCSW encourages social workers across Nova Scotia to take time this month to learn and reflect on ways to actively work towards reconciliation and decolonization.
June 29, 2022 — A virtual tour of the Mi’kmaq Resource Centre at Cape Breton University, for NSCSW members during National Indigenous History Month.
May 25, 2022 — A crucial part of our land acknowledgement was omitted from our special general meeting and annual general meeting this month. Alec Stratford shares an apology.
May 5, 2022 — Red Dress Day, also called the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-spirit People, is an annual day of remembrance and action that stretches from coast to coast to coast. NSCSW Council has committed to a decolonization framework to support social workers in addressing these urgent calls to action.
March 4 2022 — Mini-conference on challenges and opportunities of serving Nova Scotians who face intimate partner violence during the pandemic.
September 30, 2021 — National Truth and Reconciliation Day calls on all of us to make space for the grief and healing of survivors and the remembrance of those lost, but also to participate in necessary and long overdue change.
25 Jun, 2021 — A workshop to develop social workers’ knowledge of the inherent jurisdiction of the Mi’kmaw of Nova Scotia over child welfare.
CONNECTION is the official newsletter of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers.
