Product Details
Dinayetr (The Breath of Our People): The ethical importance of supporting Alaska Native language revitalization
- Credit(s): 1 Alaska Native
- Course Number: AK-04282023-10AK
- Duration: 1 hour 1 minute
- Access: Available for 3 months after Registration
Self Study
- Non-Member Price
- $20.00
- Member Price
- $20.00

Description

Dr. LaVerne Xilegg Demientieff and Dr. Jessica Saniġaq Ullrich will discuss how Alaska Native language continuation is important for social workers to support. We will share a brief history of language suppression and how the NASW ethical values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of a person, importance of human relationships, integrity and competence align with efforts to keep Indigenous languages alive for collective wellbeing.

Learning Objectives:

Identify the ways language loss is linked to intergenerational trauma for many Alaska Native people.
Learn how the NASW code of ethics guides social workers to align with language revitalization efforts.
Discuss ideas for policy and practice change to support language learning and how these efforts connect to the wellbeing of all.

Credits

1 Alaska Native

Faculty

LaVerne Marie Demientieff, PhD, LMSWBio

LaVerne Marie Demientieff, PhD, LMSW Bio

Dr. LaVerne Xilegg Demientieff is Deg Xit’an (Dene) and her family is originally from Holy Cross and Anvik, Alaska. She is a social work professor at the University of Alaska. LaVerne is very active in learning and teaching her Deg Xinag language. She facilitates a weekly Deg Xinag language learning group online and is interested in exploring and creating awareness around the connection between language and well-being.

Jessica Saniġaq UllrichBio

Jessica Saniġaq Ullrich Bio

Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, MSW, PhD, is a Tribal citizen of Nome Eskimo Community, and a proud mother of 2 teenage daughters. Jessica worked in the Alaska child welfare system as a MSW in various positions before obtaining her PhD from University of Washington. Now as an Assistant Professor at Washington State University in the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) program, she focuses on the promotion of connectedness, wellbeing, relational healing, and social/environmental justice.

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