Our Populations project on Aboriginal children in foster care in Alberta has been very eye-opening, I went into it not knowing much about the subject. Which developed into a very interesting topic. I am very glad I took the chance to search something I had no knowledge in, it made a great learning experience. Although there are many failures and negative things involving this aspect of the First Nations children, there is an also a good amount of strengths in this field. One of the biggest positive things about Aboriginal children in foster care is that when they are adopted they may not be in their culture, but they have an adoptive family who is obligated to uphold the child’s culture by letting them attend cultural events and even allowing
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Any statistics on the Government of Alberta Website had seemed outdated, with a publication date of 2011. The Aboriginal people seem to be dehumanized and by that, there is very little to no information on a certain subject involving them. The information is very limited that they have and they seem to not care about like they should be, they are human beings but are treated unfairly. If I was to do this project again with the same topic again being Aboriginal People, I would want to try and contact sources to try and get information about the population. That way we can find more detailed, accurate and maybe passionate answers about the subject. I feel we did our best on the subject and with the lack of studies and knowledge on the internet, it’s hard to come to a positive outcome of the situation. The problem has been around for a very long time and just seems in recent years that it has gotten any attention, which limits information on the subject. I think what I have taken from this project is that we need to look into the oppressed groups and advocate for them, trying to help and solve issues like this. Certain issues like the one we researched have not had much attention and by that people aren’t aware of the problems it faces. By having a greater knowledge of all areas that social work can work in
Any statistics on the Government of Alberta Website had seemed outdated, with a publication date of 2011. The Aboriginal people seem to be dehumanized and by that, there is very little to no information on a certain subject involving them. The information is very limited that they have and they seem to not care about like they should be, they are human beings but are treated unfairly. If I was to do this project again with the same topic again being Aboriginal People, I would want to try and contact sources to try and get information about the population. That way we can find more detailed, accurate and maybe passionate answers about the subject. I feel we did our best on the subject and with the lack of studies and knowledge on the internet, it’s hard to come to a positive outcome of the situation. The problem has been around for a very long time and just seems in recent years that it has gotten any attention, which limits information on the subject. I think what I have taken from this project is that we need to look into the oppressed groups and advocate for them, trying to help and solve issues like this. Certain issues like the one we researched have not had much attention and by that people aren’t aware of the problems it faces. By having a greater knowledge of all areas that social work can work in