CSWDSN Conference Schedule
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Professional Development Day
Location: 246 Bloor Street West
Time Activity 1:00 to 2:00pm Opening remarks and introductions 2:00 to 2:30pm Panel Discussion 2:30 to 2:45pm BREAK 2:45 to 3:15/3:30pm Workshops: publishing process, entering the job market, thesis proposal 3:30 to 4:00pm Closing day remarks
Conference
Location: 180 Bloor Street West
Time Activity 9:00 to 9:30am Registration, breakfast, and welcome from chairing committee 9:30 to 9:45am Schools of Social Work opening remarks 10:00 to 11:30am Keynote speaker 11:30 to 12:30pm LUNCH 12:30 to 2:00pm Presentations – Large Room & Small Room
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Large Room:
12:30-12:50pm – Disrupting Co-optation: A Decolonial and Abolitionist Critique of Anti-Racism and Equity Work within Community-Based Nonprofit Organizations
12:50-1:10pm – Decolonizing Epistemology in Canadian Health Sciences Academia: Integrating Epistemologies from Religion
1:10-1:30pm – Breaking through the Webs of Epistemic Injustice: Case Study on Butterfly’s Epistemic Resistance
1:30-1:50pm – Reclaiming the Intimate as Political: Palestinian Women’s Everyday Activism as Decolonial Social Work Praxis Under Settler Colonialism
Small Room:
12:30-1pm – Sharing Circle: Experiences, Needs, and Utilization of Services by Victims of Lethal or Near Lethal Domestic Violence
1-2pm – Workshop: Developing Radical Social Work Pedagogies for Sovereign Futures2:00 to 2:20pm BREAK 2:20 to 4:00pm Presentations – Large Room & Small Room
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Large Room:
2:20-2:40pm – Navigating Theatre of the Oppressed in Research: Reflections of a Researcher-Practitioner
2:40-3pm – Weighty matters for social work: intra-actions with ChatGPT for weight-loss advice
3-3:20pm – Participatory Policymaking Using Feminist Ethics of Care
3:20-3:40pm – Interrogating the Ruling Relations: A Critical Decolonial Institutional Ethnography of Social Assistance in Alberta
Small Room:
2:30-3pm – Sharing Circle: Black Girls in Space
3-4pm – Workshop: PhD Students in the Interior of Research Ethics4:00 to 4:10pm Closing remarks 5:30 to 7:30pm Networking dinner – Duke of York (39 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto) Time Activity 9:00 to 9:30am Breakfast 9:00 to 10:30am Activity 10:30 to 11:30am Presentations – Large Room and Small Room
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Large Room:
10:30-10:50am – Caregiver Grief Connexion: A Social Justice-Oriented Model for Clinical Supervision and Grief Intervention
10:50-11:10am – Decolonizing Attachment: Culturally Situated Caregiving and Structural Resilience among Left-Behind Filipino Children
11:10-11:30am – Navigating Displacement Through Ubuntu: Lessons from the Experiences of Older African Refugees
Small Room:
10:30-11:30am – Workshop: Fostering Connection and Healing: An Intervention Study to Understand Adolescent Sexual Offending Treatment Effects, Mechanisms, and Worldviews11:30 to 12:30pm LUNCH 12:30 to 2:00pm Presentations – Large Room and Small Room
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Large Room:
12:30-12:50pm – Pulling the Veil-A Decolonial Approach in Examining the Impact of Historical Trauma Among Afro-Caribbean Canadian Women
12:50-1:10pm – Ontologies of Madness: Tracing the Roots and Routes of Mental Health Systems in Pakistan
1:10-1:30pm – Immigrant Women’s Mental Health Stories: A Qualitative Inquiry in Canada
1:30-1:50pm – Addressing the mental health needs of African Refugees in Canada: A call for an Afrocentric Approach
Small Room:
12:30-1pm – Sharing Circle: Ideas and Questions About Social Work and Artificial Intelligence
1:10-1:30pm – Poster: Insight, Internalized Stigma and Cognitive functioning: correlations with quality of Life of patients with Schizophrenia
1:30-1:50pm – Poster: Barriers and Facilitators to School Social Work Practice2:00 to 2:10pm BREAK 2:10 to 3:50pm Presentations – Large Room and Small Room
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Large Room:
2:10-2:30pm – Wholistic Wellness, Disability, and Indigeneity in Social Work Practice
2:30-2:50pm – Chronic illness and disability in Uganda
2:50-3:10pm – The Coloniality of Care: Black Womens Care Needs and Strengths Navigating Sexual and Reproductive Care Continuums
3:10-3:30pm – Unpacking the fight against homophobia and transphobia in Québec: Power, Policy and the representation of violence against LGBTQ+ people
3:30-3:50pm – Digital Gatekeeping and the Politics of Cancel Culture: Navigating ‘Brown Girl Trauma’ in Online Activism
Small Room:
2:10-3:10pm – Workshop: Migration, Gender, Race and Mental Health: Privileging the voices and experiences of Black African Immigrant and Refugee Men in Canada
3:10-3:40pm – Sharing Circle: Disrupting Anglonormativity in Social Work: Language Diversity as a Social Justice Issue
3:50 to 4:00pm Closing Remarks Time Activity 9:00 to 9:30am Breakfast 9:30 to 10:30am Presentations – Large Room and Small Room
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Large Room:
9:30-9:50am – Examining Family Estrangement: Social Representations of Family and Parenthood Through a Critical Lens
9:50-10-10am – Beyond Carceral Logics: Contrasting Boot Camp for Young Offenders with African Indigenous Approaches through an Abolitionist Perspective
10:10-10:30am – Unrecognized Credentials for Chinese Skilled Immigrants in Canada
Small Room:
9:30-10am – Sharing Circle: Social work and police partnerships: Possibilities for social justice?
10-10:30am – Sharing Circle: Reimagining Afrocentric Leadership in Culturally Specific Community Social Work Organizations10:30 to 10:40am BREAK 10:40 to 12:00pm Presentations – Large Room and Small Room
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Large Room:
10:40-11am – Examining the Problematization of Black Youth Behaviours: Implications for Social Work Practice
11-11:20am – “People Will Notice That Level of Silence Way More”: How Identity-Based Language in EDI Policies Shapes LGBTQ+ Youths’ Belonging
11:20-11:40am –A Participatory Action Research Study of Youth Activists’ Experiences of Climate Activism and Mental Health
11:40-12pm – Exploring Food Insecurity Among Adolescent Mothers in Sub-Saharan Africa- An Ecosocial Theoretical and Intersectionality framework12:00 to 1:00pm LUNCH 1:00 to 2:00pm Presentations – Large Room and Small Room
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Large Room:
1-1:20pm – Demitted: Centering a “Love Ethic” & Children’s Rights in Decolonizing School Attendance Policy
1:20-1:40pm – Re-Considering the Duty to Report Child Abuse: Teaching and Practicing Just Futures
1:40-2pm – Decolonizing Systems: Re-Visioning Provincial Child Advocate Offices through Two-Eyed Seeing
Small Room:
1-2pm – Workshop: Destabilizing divorce: nuclear normativity, emotion and the law2:00 to 2:15 Closing