Denouncing the Continued Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in Canadian Child Welfare: Findings from the First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019
October 30 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Please join us for our next lecture in the 2023-2024 Alumni Series, presented by the FIFSW Alumni Association, where we will be joined by Dr. Barbara Fallon in a talk titled, “Denouncing the Continued Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in Canadian Child Welfare: Findings from the First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019.”
Alumni, students, faculty and members of the public are all welcome to attend.
When: Monday, October 30, 2023 | 6:30PM – 8:00PM ET
Where: Online (Zoom)
Dr. Barbara Fallon is the Associate Vice-President, Research for the University of Toronto and a Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. Dr. Fallon also holds a Canada Research Chair in Child Welfare. She is an Adjoint Professor at the Kempe Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Colorado School of Medicine and at The Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Fallon’s research interests include comparisons of child protection systems, the disproportional and disparate representation of racialized groups within the child welfare system, and the contribution of worker and organizational characteristics to child-welfare decision making.