On March 5 2024, the Border(ing) Practices project and guest speakers hosted a policy forum to discuss new Canadian federal policies and how they may affect children and youth in child welfare.
On June 1 2023, the research team presented a panel examining the intersection of precarious immigration status and systemic racism in the child protection system and the field of social work more broadly.
On March 4 2022, The Border(ing) practices research team hosted a knowledge sharing community forum to explore how immigration status shapes child welfare services with immigrant families in Ontario and British Columbia.
On June 2 2023, Border(ing)'s Co-Principal Investigators joined the Law & Society Association's paper session, which brings together socio-legal scholars working in the United States and Canada.
On July 29 2022, the team presented a webinar to explore the gaps and challenges in social work practice related to recognizing and safeguarding the immigration status of children and youth in care.
On February 2-3 2022, the team presented findings from a discourse analysis of provincial and organizational child welfare policy documents that inform the assessment of risk for child abuse or neglect in Ontario and British Columbia.
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