In the second episode of the Creating Communities of Care Podcast, we focus on the African Nova Scotian community, the challenges and barriers that they face when interacting with service providers, and what one organization in particular is doing to make things better.
The Association of Black Social Workers is one of the four Creating Communities of Care partner organizations. In an effort to provide culturally-specific programming to their clients, the ABSW is integrating elements of Afrocentricity into their programs, creating spaces where healing and growth can happen through the formation of trusted relationships.
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If you heard parts of your own story in this podcast, and are interested in learning more about the organizations mentioned in this episode, please refer to the following:
More about Creating Communities of Care
Association of Black Social Workers:
- Contact or intake number/email: ccc@nsabsw.ca OR 902-407-8809
- Link to online intake portal: https://www.nsabsw.ca/contactus/
Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia:
Mi’kmaw Legal Support Network:
- Contact or intake number/email: 902-379-2042 OR 902-895-1141
- Link to online intake portal: www.MLSN.ca
Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre:
What is Creating Communities of Care?
In an effort to address the barriers and gaps in care experienced by African Nova Scotian and Urban Indigenous women in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), four organizations banded together to provide culturally-specific programming to address the issue of gender-based violence as it appears in these two communities.
Inspired by Indigenous customary law and Afrocentricity, these programs aim to address the failures of our inherited colonial systems by connecting women with other members of their community in spaces where their culture is integrated into the care they receive. Although this project has seen huge successes so far, but there is still much to learn, and much more work to do.