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"The Commitment to Change Working Group invites all members to this conversation circle as an opportunity for engagement and discussion that explores the following questions:
How might CASWE-ACFTS and its membership develop a mutually supportive partnership in collaboratively transforming our colonial reality towards a “an economically, socially, and environmentally just world [that respects] the worth, agency, and dignity of all beings”? And more specifically, how can social work education better support Indigenous land and water sovereignty?

The forthcoming Brown Paper was created in response to the Lighting the Fire: Social Work and Indigenous Land and Water Sovereignty teach-in hosted on March 3, 2021, by a group of Indigenous and allied social work educators and students via the CASWE-ACFTS platform. The Brown Paper is a framework of action that encourages and inspires education, dialogue, and social work practice in support of Indigenous land and water sovereignty; essential elements to our social and environmental justice mandates, the new social work code of ethics, as well as the CASWE-ACFTS accreditation standards.

Brown Paper co-authors and CTC-EEC Working Group members will describe the current activities of the CTC-EEC Working Group and the Brown paper Calls to Action. Participants will have the opportunity to commit to action points, plan their first steps, and predict and troubleshoot anticipated barriers in this work, supporting one another.
Ultimately, the goal is that participants will leave the conversation circle invigorated and re-energized, with a sense of how they might begin implementing the Commitment to Change and Brown Paper Calls to Action at their respective schools, who they may be able to lean on for support, how they might support CASWE-ACFTS in this movement, and how they might be able to overcome potential barriers. "