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Indigenous Wellbeing - Practice Considerations 

Presenter: Estelle Simard, MSW, ABD - Educational Leadership
1 CEU - May be counted as Clinical or Cultural Responsiveness

Indigenous children’s well being indicators, outcomes, and metrics are an important part of developmental frameworks, however, they must be constructed in manners that include historical contexts on identity and context. This workshop presents these historical influences on Indigenous peoples, the dichotomy of Indigenous identity development through a cultural socialization process, and concepts of cultural attachment as Indigenous wellbeing indicators. Further, it will conceptualize Indigenous wellness as cultural attachment as seen through six developmental domains.

Presenter:

Estelle is from the Anishinaabe Nation, from the territory of Treaty #3, and the community of Couchiching First Nation. She is an Indigenous Faculty within the Department of Social Work at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In addition, Estelle is the Director of the Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies. Estelle is pursuing a doctorate in Educational Leadership at Phoenix University, and her dissertation is a descriptive qualitative study on Cultural Attachment Theory.

*Please check with the regulatory board in the state(s) where you are licensed to ensure this course meets continuing education requirements.