#ojibwaysocialworker

When I started as a youth worker working with homeless youth I used to have to discharge this one client over and over again. He was disrespectful, disregarded the rules, generally just created problems all day long. I'd kick him out and by my next shift he would be back. My manager would let him back in. One day I stormed into my manager's office demanding to know why he was back in, again. She told me something that has stuck with me ever since. She said, Josh, how do you know this last chance we're giving him isn't the last chance he needs to get his life on track. Last I heard this young man is doing well, sober, a productive member of society, so to speak. He has a family and ended up going back to school. What would have become of him had I gotten my way back then? Would he be dead or locked up like so many others? Like I should be? Sometimes we need to protect ourselves by setting boundaries and sticking to them, but sometimes people need just need someone to have faith in them before they can have faith in themselves. I am so grateful for those that saw something in me when I couldn't see it myself. I'm here today because people believed in me when I didn't believe in myself. Miigwetch #ojibwaysocialworker #socialworkdad #tattoosandsocialwork #ryersonstudent #indigenousknowledgeinformedsocialworkpraxisandpedagogy #indigenize #decolonize #trysomethingdifferent #holistichealing #firstnations #mentalhealthandaddictions #lovespeaks (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpzrRy6HckX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h7fx7ncn5bvf

Topic: Wealth Western Worldview Within a Euro/Western worldview wealth is understood and communicated by how much someone possesses (invokes notions of ownership and is self focused). Indigenous Worldview (as understood from the traditional teachings I received as well as pan-Indigenous Academic Literature). Wealth is understood and communicated through how much one is able to give away and contribute to one's community. This frame of mind prioritizes community over the individual while still valuing that individual as an independent living being that is interconnected with all other living things. It is understood that helping others, even if not returned directly by the same individual, will benefit the person that is giving/helping. #indigenization #indigenoussoveriegnty #indigenousknowledgeinformedsocialworkpraxisandpedagogy #indigenous #ojibwaysocialworker #ojibway #ojibwe #cree #firstnations #aboriginal #socialwork #ryersonstudent #ryerson #ryersonsocialwork #nativepride #honourthetreaties #indigenousknowledge #indigenousmethodology #holistichealth #holisticapproaches #mentalhealthandaddictions #mentalphysicalsprititualemotional #mhealth #healingjourney #antioppressivepractice #anticolonialism #postcolonialism #toronto #traditionalknowledge (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BowlGd4nBcy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=njt7vuz22sqn