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Knowledge Mobilization Project

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Knowledge Mobilization Focusing on Protective Factors for Children's Welfare: the case of Urban Indigenous, African Nova Scotian, and Immigrant and Refugee communities.

This project involves a one-year series of interactive educational and outreach activities seeking to raise awareness and to foster dialogue between and within communities. The project also seeks to guide health and social services providers, policy makers, and culturally specific organizations on how to serve and engage with families and children.

The project further seeks to identify strategies that will prevent further overrepresentation of Urban Indigenous, African Nova Scotian, and immigrant and refugee populations in state care.

Urban Indigenous communities

African Nova Scotian communities

Immigrant and Refugee communities

Project Team Members

Principal Investigator:

Sara Torres, School of Social Work, Laurentian University

Co-Investigator:

Nancy Ross, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University

Co-Investigator:

Barbara Hamilton-Hinch, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University

Collaborators:

Naiomi Metallic, Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Schulich School of Law Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University

Jemell Moriah, Association of Black Social Workers of Nova Scotia

Wenche Gausdal, Director, Refugee Settlement, Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS)

Winnie Grant, Director Department of Community Services

Project coordinators:

Chloe Pictou – Urban Indigenous Community

Marsha Hudson-Ash – African Nova Scotian Community

Stephanie Barrón – Immigrant and Refugee Community

Jenica Witkowski – Practicum BSW Student Dalhousie University

Research Team Members

Principal Investigator:

Sara Torres, School of Social Work, Laurentian University

Principal Investigator:

Ingrid Waldron, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University

Co-Investigator:

Nancy Ross, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University

Co-Investigator:

Winnie Grant, Association of Black Social Workers of Nova Scotia

Partners:

Jemell Moriah, Association of Black Social Workers of Nova Scotia

Natalie Downey, Department of Community Services

Naiomi Metallic, Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Schulich School of Law Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University

Wenche Gausdal, Director, Refugee Settlement, Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS)

Leah Carrier, Research Assistant, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University

Thank you to our supporters:

Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Center

Association of Black Social Workers (ABSW)

Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS)

Contact Us

strongcommunities-families@laurentian.ca