Decolonizing Social Work

For many BIPOC employees, we walk into rooms and must constantly read the air, deciding how much of ourselves is safe to bring.

This documentary raises awareness of current issues that continue to affect Indigenous communities and emphasizes the importance of recognizing and addressing the ongoing realities of settler colonialism in Canada.

Since the 1970s, the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada’s correctional system has been a critical concern (Ndegwa et al., 2023). According to David & Mitchell (2021), the overrepresentation of Indigenous as well as Black people in Canadian prisons is a direct outcome of settler colonialism