Cultural responsiveness: measuring and evaluating social work practice

This project aims to develop tools for use by social workers that measure and evaluate culturally responsive practices with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The tools have potential application across numerous sectors in social work practices with clients and families. The project will benefit social workers who can measure, evaluate and improve their culturally responsive practice, and in turn, the health and well-being outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Output(s)

The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools (CICRT): Creating More Culturally Responsive Social Workers

Type

Journal article

Authors

Bindi Bennett & Claire Morse

Publisher

Australian Social Work

Publication date

2023

Rights notice

© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent

File

The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools CICRT Creating More Culturally Responsive Social Workers.pdf

Link

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0312407X.2023.2186255

Project information

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Community / Language group(s)

Project contact(s)

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Researcher(s)

Professor Bindi Bennett
Professor Susan Green
Professor Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

2018

End date2022

Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

Funder(s)

Organisation(s)

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

Dr Bindi Bennett is a K/Gamilaroi woman, mother, and social worker. She is committed to improving and growing cultural responsiveness; re-Indigenising Western spaces; understanding and exploring Indigenous Knowledge Systems; and exploring the human-animal bond.

Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, of the D'harawal nation, is a researcher and lecturer whose outputs are increasingly encapsulating and promoting Aboriginal Australian standpoints and perspectives across a diversity of disciplines (most notably education and psychology).

Methodology is anchored in broader philosophies (values and beliefs) and epistemologies. For an Aboriginal academic, this means we build our methodologies on our own knowings, doings, and beings. We call this an Indigenous standpoint. The authors’ (BB’s and CM’s) Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing were utilised to collate, measure, and assess culturally responsive social work practice (Rigney, Citation1999; Martin & Mirraboopa, Citation2003). Within this project, pragmatism allowed the researcher to flexibly engage with, and be led by, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and standpoints. This then ensured that the knowledge and tools developed within the project will best serve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The authors of this paper would like to acknowledge that this paper was written on the unceded sovereign lands of the Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi peoples. Bindi is a Gamilaraay woman and Claire is a non-Indigenous settler. We pay genuine respect to Elders past and present.

Cultural responsiveness: measuring and evaluating social work practice

Output(s)

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AIATSIS acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of Country and recognises their continuing connection to land, sea, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.