Culture is Healing: Supporting Belonging for Indigenous Youth
Indigenous youth are disproportionately represented in the Child Welfare and juvenile justice systems. These young people are often defined by the deficits and harrowing statistics tied to the traumatic and dysfunctional experience they navigate and endure. There is a distinct connection between colonization and how ongoing oppression negatively impacts Indigenous youth. While Indigenous youth may face challenges and endure hardships, they remain powerful and offer much to their home communities. Indigenous youth are more than a diagnosis, condition, or case file number; they have strength in their identities, kinship, culture, spirituality, caring connections, and much more. This webinar will provide practitioners with culturally rooted ways to support belonging for and empowerment of Indigenous Youth.
About the Presenter
Korina Barry, MSW
Korina Barry, MSW, is a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. She is a mother, organizer, advocate, and Full-Spectrum Indigenous doula. She supported American Indian youth and children while working in the area of Indian Child Welfare as a social worker for nearly fifteen years. Korina spent five years working closely with researchers on the translation of critical research into practice tools and training materials for social workers in the field of Child Welfare. She has worked on policy advocacy and systems reform in the field of child welfare, and more broadly advocating for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.