Introduction
The history of Canada is one that not many like to talk about. Between taking land, killings, residential schools, and high foster care rates there is a lot of intergenerational trauma that needs healing still. For this essay I picked Scenario number two, a story about an eight-year-old boy named Jackson. Jackson lives in Victoria, a city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. From his story a Child and Youth Care practitioner can learn what inter-generational impact the children go through and how they develop because of community, family, and personal history. To do this a practitioner needs to look at the child or youth’s strengths and resources before deciding on what to do next for the child.
Jackson’s Story
Jackson grew …show more content…
His mother attended residential school then had to deal with her own post traumatic stress. She turned to substance abuse and for Jackson, seeing her struggle has caused him and his sisters to develop their own trauma. For Jackson, his trauma was being put into a westernized adoption system which meant being ripped away from his family, just like his mother was. While he has been put into what seems like a loving home he will still struggle with his identity, his loss of family, the loss of his community, and lastly the loss of his …show more content…
To work within an Indigenous community, I need to understand my own culture, and come to grips with my white privilege. In White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack there is a list of twenty-six attributes that a Caucasian can feel because of their race (Mclntosh, 2002). The one main idea from this that struck me hard was “I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me” (p. 99). I thought about Jackson and his family and how their race is working against them to get their family back together. In my family we have always been lucky enough to have the law, and health readily available without
The history of Canada is one that not many like to talk about. Between taking land, killings, residential schools, and high foster care rates there is a lot of intergenerational trauma that needs healing still. For this essay I picked Scenario number two, a story about an eight-year-old boy named Jackson. Jackson lives in Victoria, a city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. From his story a Child and Youth Care practitioner can learn what inter-generational impact the children go through and how they develop because of community, family, and personal history. To do this a practitioner needs to look at the child or youth’s strengths and resources before deciding on what to do next for the child.
Jackson’s Story
Jackson grew …show more content…
His mother attended residential school then had to deal with her own post traumatic stress. She turned to substance abuse and for Jackson, seeing her struggle has caused him and his sisters to develop their own trauma. For Jackson, his trauma was being put into a westernized adoption system which meant being ripped away from his family, just like his mother was. While he has been put into what seems like a loving home he will still struggle with his identity, his loss of family, the loss of his community, and lastly the loss of his …show more content…
To work within an Indigenous community, I need to understand my own culture, and come to grips with my white privilege. In White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack there is a list of twenty-six attributes that a Caucasian can feel because of their race (Mclntosh, 2002). The one main idea from this that struck me hard was “I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me” (p. 99). I thought about Jackson and his family and how their race is working against them to get their family back together. In my family we have always been lucky enough to have the law, and health readily available without