User profiles for Cindy Blackstock

Cindy Blackstock

Professor of Social Work, McGill University
Verified email at mcgill.ca
Cited by 4409

Pathways to the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in Canada's child welfare system

N Trocmé, D Knoke, C Blackstock - Social Service Review, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
This study compares child welfare services provided to Aboriginal (Indian) and Caucasian
children in Canada. The findings suggest that child welfare reports involving Aboriginal …

Residential schools: Did they really close or just morph into child welfare

C Blackstock - Indigenous LJ, 2007 - HeinOnline
72 Indigenous Law Journal Vol. 6 opportunities for restitution and, equally important,
learning by government so it does not happen again. Ten years later, on February 23, 2007, …

[PDF][PDF] The emergence of the breath of life theory

C Blackstock - Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, 2011 - jswve.org
Using First Nations Elder and scholar Willie Ermine and colleagues'(Ermine, Sinclair, & Jeffery,
2004) concept of ethical space, this paper proposes a bi-cultural theory founded in First …

[PDF][PDF] Reconciliation means not saying sorry twice

C Blackstock - From truth to reconciliation: Transforming the …, 2008 - shannensdream.ca
" I went to the Tribunal Hearing [Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations Child
Welfare alleging Canada racially discriminates by providing inequitable child welfare benefits …

The occasional evil of angels: Learning from the experiences of Aboriginal peoples and social work

C Blackstock - First Peoples Child & Family Review, 2009 - erudit.org
Social workers have significant impacts on the lives of children and families every day-especially
children experiencing maltreatment. The beliefs that we know what good is, are good, …

[PDF][PDF] Community-based child welfare for Aboriginal children: Supporting resilience through structural change

C Blackstock, N Trocmé - Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, 2005 - researchgate.net
Available data suggest that First Nations children, youth and families in Canada continue to
experience multiple and disproportionate human rights violations stemming from colonialism…

Child maltreatment investigations among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal families in Canada

C Blackstock, N Trocmé… - Violence against women, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
This comparative analysis of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal families uses a 1998 Canadian
study of child maltreatment cases to identify important differences: Aboriginal families face …

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations child welfare: Why if Canada wins, equality and justice lose

C Blackstock - Children and youth services review, 2011 - Elsevier
Repeated reports indicate that First Nations children on reserve receive less child welfare
funding than other children in Canada despite the fact that First Nations children have higher …

Placement decisions and disparities among aboriginal groups: An application of the decision making ecology through multi-level analysis

…, M Chabot, B Fallon, B MacLaurin, C Blackstock - Child abuse & …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: This paper examined the relative influence of clinical and organizational
characteristics on the decision to place a child in out-of-home care at the conclusion of a child …

[BOOK][B] A literature review and annotated bibliography on aspects of Aboriginal child welfare in Canada

M Bennett, C Blackstock, R De La Ronde - 2005 - fncaringsociety.com
This comprehensive and user friendly literature review and annotated bibliography has been
prepared at the request of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada as …