Weweni Aasgaabwitaagen Anishinaabe Binoojiin Naagdoowenmin

Abstract

This report focuses on my advanced practicum experience with Nogdawindamin Family and Community Services. Nogdawindamin Family and Community Services is a child welfare agency that was created and is governed by the seven First Nations along the North Shore in Ontario, Canada. Nogdawindamin Family and Community Services is a multi-service agency that provides child welfare service among many other programs including Child Mental Health, Adult Mental Health, Youth in Transition, and many others that are aimed at addressing the challenges that their communities face. Further, the focus of my advanced practicum was to develop a better understanding of how I, as a non-Indigenous person, could work with Indigenous people in the context of child welfare in a good way. This report discusses what I learned from the literature and from my practicum experience with the Investigation