School of Indigenous Relations

Please join me and Amie Skilling as we co-facilitate the Traditional Indigenous Parenting Series in July at the N'Swakamok Native Friendship Centre. https://forms.gle/wm6dkuA2qbPqb83D8 Registration is free and lunch will be provided. Amie is anishinaabekwe from wikwemkoong with roots in Point Grondine. She is a student in the ISWK program at Laurentian University and is doing her 3rd year placement with this series. She has shadowed me and is looking forward to adding her knowledge and flair to the two day series. Please feel free to forward to others. Miigwetch!

ISO Two people who are interested in face painting on June 21 from 10-3pm at Bell Park. This is a paid position via honorarium. We can supply some supplies. Please PM me. :)

Job opportunity!

Employment opportunity: Addictions counsellor. See photo for details on how to apply.

Please join us on April 5 at 2:00pm in the Indigenous Sharing and Learning Centre, round room for a student Art Show. ISWK 2315 students will share their cumulative art projects they have been working on in each quadrant. We started in the East with the Social Work landscape, South learning about relationships, West was spent on critical thinking and heart knowledge, and the North was the last quadrant focusing on wisdom and doing. Each art piece is a representation of each quadrant. There will be refreshments and a light snack. Please share with others. Miigwetch!

Lavi Hoff is a 4th-year ISWK student and worked diligently at supporting and contributing to the 40 Chances Team. 40 Chances won 3rd place in a national competition to combat homelessness. Great work, Lavi! Their promo video can be seen here: https://youtu.be/dUPMsn_u9uU

Call out for all ISWK students! Nominations for all positions are now open! Miigwetch to Christine Blair for creating the poster. Applications/nominations are open until Feb 15 at 11:59pm. We hope to gather a great group of people who want to effect change and have fun doing it! Link to apply: https://forms.gle/5ksJTjo2egv9eMv78 Want to know more about the positions? Link here (need LU email address to view): https://bit.ly/3XcCksP

Introducing Dr. Joey-Lynn Wabie, the BISW Coordinator, who has been answering emails from the [email protected] account. Please continue to be patient as Spring session has opened up which means email requests have increased. As Indigenous Social Work students you can book 15 minute appointments with her on Mondays, as needed here: https://bit.ly/3I0TkxG Miigwetch.

October 7th, 2022: Last day to drop a Fall/Winter course and receive a 75% tuition refund.

What is academic advising? It is requesting your plan of study, what to register for, courses needed, override requests, who is teaching, which sections are open, etc. If you think it might be an academic question related to your studies, please use this email.

If you need academic advice OR information about the Indigenous Social Work or Master of Indigenous Relations programs, forward all inquiries to: [email protected] What is academic advising? It is requesting your plan of study, what to register for, courses needed, override requests, who is teaching, which sections are open, etc. If you think it might be an academic question related to your studies, please use this email. Please share post with your peers!

Biindigen/mino piijan/welcome to our two limited term faculty members joining our small but mighty School. We are over the moon to have amazing people of such high calibre and character working with us. Here’s to the new academic year with Michelle Kennedy and Nicole Wemigwans! ❤️

Fast Fact Friday! SIR is a well attended Bachelor of Indigenous Social Work program. We are working hard to stay in contact with all of our amazing students. Miigwetch for your patience!

According to Benton-Banai (1988), the Creator gave the seven grandfathers the responsibility to watch over the people: Wisdom, Love, Respect, Bravery, Honesty, Humility, and Truth. These teachings are treated with respect and used within the helping relationship of our Indigenous social work program. For more info on becoming an RSW: https://www.ocswssw.org/

We would like to introduce our new page with a bit of history of the School of Indigenous Relations. We go back to the 80s and were created with the surrounding community and Indigenous faculty and allies.