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(Full Text) Failure to Protect: Institutional Oppression as a Social Norm in Child Welfare
Generational socioeconomic divisions are maintained by oppressive systems of power.
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(Full Text) Ending Violence at the Roots
Understanding the link between socioeconomic division and violence
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(Full Text) Grieving Disability
The absence of psychological support in disability rehabilitation
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(Full Text) Ableism is Oppression Against People with Disabilities
Ten ways you can you fight ableism and support people with disabilities.
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My First Foster Home
Where the law is concerned sometimes the solution is worse than the problem
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My Life after Aging Out of Foster Care
I'm one of the lucky ones who almost made it.
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Foster Care & Traumatic Brain Injury (E-TBI)
Unresolved trauma, stress disorders and poor health as a legacy of foster care.
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(Full Text) Euthanasia and the Dehumanization of Disabled Canadians
Overlooking the Dangers of Ableism and Elitism in Law and Medicine
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(Full Text) Listing of Disability Support and Advocacy Organizations Across Canada
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(Full Text) Disability and Domestic Violence in Canada
Disabled Canadians are the most likely to face sexual or domestic violence in Canada and are the least likely to be supported or see justice served.
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The Intersection
This is a site about surviving violent trauma, the child welfare system, institutional care, and living with disabilities written by an institutional care survivor living with complex trauma and physical disability.
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