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Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and a professor at UU直播's School of Social Work, has made it her mission to make sure First Nations kids get the care that matches up with care received by other kids in Canada.

She talks about the long fight for this agreement, and why she鈥檚 still waiting to celebrate. (Front Burner, CBC News)

Front Burner:聽The 15-year fight to treat Indigenous children as equals

My colleagues at UU直播 are working on a project called:聽Young People, Well-being, and Connectedness in the Time of Distancing聽(funded by Quebec鈥檚 Minist猫re de la Sant茅 et des Services Sociaux (MSSS). They are currently recruiting youth participants (16-24 years old) from diverse communities and looking for support to spread the word!

Professors Nicole Ives and Wanda Gabriel have been selected as the 2021 recipients of UU直播鈥檚 Award for Equity and Community Building. Their pioneering work with Indigenous Access UU直播, the Field Studies course, Indigenous initiatives at UU直播, and most recently the BSW program to be delivered in Nunavik are some of the outstanding contributions that are being recognized by UU直播 for this award.

The School of Social Work is delighted to congratulate Susan Mintzberg PhD Candidate, who was selected as the Graduate Student winner of the Principal's' Prize for Public Engagement for 2021. Since the onset of the pandemic Susan has been actively speaking out about myriad of social issues closely tied to her own doctoral work such as our continued failure to recognize families as experts in the health of their relatives, and the problematic results of top down decision making .

Monica Batac is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work, a dedicated and inspiring leader whose initiative has had a direct and positive impact on undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff at UU直播. More specifically, through her lived experience, she has envisioned new ways of building community for and with racialized students at the university. This has included a dynamic vision for creating the types of spaces that nourish and sustain racialized students on campus and across the larger Montreal community.

While many are calling for more flexible prevention focused approaches, youth protection workers in Quebec are grappling with dwindling resources and risk aversive systems that places them, and the children, families, and communities they serve in increasingly difficult positions. This pressing need for transformation has recently been tragically underscored by the death by suicide of two youth protection workers.