How to identify and respond to racism: An environmental scan of existing resources

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MacEwan University: School of Social Work
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Careers & Experience Team
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3
Project
Academic experience or paid work
100 hours per student
Student
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Intermediate level

Project scope

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Social work
Skills
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Details

Immigrants may find it challenging to tell whether they have experienced discrimination based on their race or ethno-culture. Based on past working experience, and conversation with several staff from community agencies serving immigrants, Lun and McKenzie propose to work on a project in this area. This project aims to search and document existing materials (e.g., manual, brochure, video) regarding how to identify and respond to racism experienced by immigrants in Canada. At the end of this project, we will have a list of available resources, which will be shared with community agencies in Edmonton. Besides, we will also identify the gaps in supporting immigrants to deal with situations and conversations when they experience racism. 

Deliverables

The student assistant will work on following tasks:

A- Conduct a search for available resources related to support immigrants to deal with racism.

B- Document, categorize, and summarize the identified resources.

C- Examine the resources and identify potential gaps in this area.

D- Attend meetings with community agency staff to share the findings. 

Mentorship

A- I will provide mentorship to the student assistant in gaining more knowledge in immigration settlement and discrimination experienced by immigrants.

B- I will provide guidance for the student assistant on how to conduct academic writing.

C- I will support the student assistant to develop community partnership and collaboration. 

About the company

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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
0 - 1 employees
Education

Transformative, collaborative and supportive education: it’s at the heart of what we do. The same qualities are at the heart of what social workers do when they work with families, provide support and transform lives in the communities where they live and work. Students are prepared with the competencies and practice skills to assess and practice in a professional social work setting. Faculty members have a wide range of expertise in social work education, strong connections with the community, and active engagement in research and scholarly activities to advance social work education.