Hello friends, comrades, and radical social workers! Since I have put this video out (and it's now approaching 10,000 views), I have been made aware of this video being used in social work education curricula at higher education institutions, which I think is both pretty neat and brings up some contradictions for me. If you are an instructor or faculty who has been using my video in a course that you teach, please consider the contradiction of using my freely accessibly video to supplement the teaching you are paid to do at an institution where students (such as the past me who made this video) are paying for their increasingly unaffordable education and/or provide unpaid labor at their internships/practicums. If you use content that I create in the context of a higher education institution please consider supporting my Ko-Fi page so I can continue sustaining this project: ko-fi.com/criticalhealingmoment
Right on! As a homeless person (couple) doing organizing from radical theory & praxis, I want to thank you & express how great to find your channel. It helps reinforce for me what I'm fighting against, also from my perspective being adopted by christo-fascist racists, from infancy, & raised in their cult, kicked out at 15 y.o. for no longer wanting to attend... I've been better prepared...w 5 yrs university, I try my best to do poverty scholar work as I can, circumstances are hard though. Community Organizing, now in a small town where we've been 3 years, we formed Mutual Aid group, now meeting weekly this summer. It's what works. It's complex but also a Sundown Town here, & fighting City Council 'devils'. Recent 'No Camping Ordinance', we're appealing on unconstitutionality. Incl all 3 orgs that "help" here are christian church-based & corrupt. Anyway, your focus caught my eye as lately I realized - Healing for Homeless ppl - is not on the radar. Been generating ideas and what's radically interesting about that. Always more ambition than ppl hours but we'll see. So many good ppl out there no matter how ill-portrayed in media. Ty again!
Wow that means a lot to me! I've toyed around with the idea of getting a PhD but academia never felt like the right fit. However, I love democratizing information! Thanks for watching :)
So well organized. A perfect summary of the semester to review ahead of finals. Would love to see more of your content around programs and policies. Thank you for sharing!
My university lecturer linked his students to your channel in Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within Australia suffered genocidal terrorism from British colonialism in 1788; to this day in Australia, First Nations people suffer transgenerational trauma.
Super informative and well done!! I would add that the Indian Child Welfare Act and surrounding advocacy wasn't just passed in response to boarding schools but also due to the rising rates of Native American kids being snatched off of reservations for private adoptions and to be put into foster care in the 50s-70s. All done under the often-explicit guise of "killing the indian, saving the man" and the discontinuity of cultures. By requiring placement preference for kids within their tribes and the involvement of tribal governments in these placements, ICWA is actually very relevant in discussions of tribal sovereignty. (I know there wasn't room to include all this in such a nicely condensed video, but thought I'd add for anyone who's interested).
This is so great! Thank you! I'm showing this in my Social Policy & Social Justice course as we're talking about the parallel histories of social work and social welfare policy.
Thank you for this video! Definitely required viewing for anyone in a social work program or social workers in general. I would be interested in seeing a video going more into policy
Very informative video.I appreciate the history you shared on the English poor law and how the churches very involved in early Social welfare by providing assistance.
Love this, thanks for posting! Learned so much and great that it was a condensed version of a semester haha...I'm interested in applying to social work programs so I can obtain my LICSW and practice a form of therapy I'd like to call "ancestral therapy" or a form of therapy that honors our ancestral pathways of trauma and healing.
Thank you for the suggestion. I am still a student so that is not something I know a lot about but maybe I will learn something interesting to share about it in the future.
Your narrative is extremely compelling, but the underlying music that sounds like a tape being played backwards is really disruptive and unprofessional. Can you edit that out?
Thanks for the feedback! Like I commented to another person, I was new to making videos then and still getting used to working with the program. Hopefully my newer videos have better quality if you watch any future ones.
Hi, I go to your former university and I just want to let you know the BSW program is using your video as course material online. Are you aware of this? I know you used to have a video up about how you felt abused by the institution and that it caused you to leave and transfer.
Hi there, I am aware that this video has been shown in the context of the program I just graduated from, but not the one I transferred from. If you'd like to discuss in more detail please dm me on Instagram or email me since I am not comfortable being specific with my location on my social media platforms. As of now there is not much I can do as I'd like this knowledge and information to be free and accessible to all in the field.
Interesting to frame it as oppressive vs what had to happen. Of course, by today's standards it would be seen as oppressive, but every country on the plant was suffering from these woes and luckily these systems were created. Were they perfect? Far from it. But it was a necessary evolution for humankind to shift away from what was the previous status quo. Maybe a poor analogy (as it just popped into my head) but am I glad WW2 happened? Not really, but the outcome has been a global reduction in the rates of war across the globe.
