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As part of the duty to provide culturally relevant services WFS Caring for and raising its children is central to the Anishinabe utilizes customary care as the primary means of meeting the needs of culture. Weechi-it-te-win affirms and asserts Cultural Competence children who are in need of alternative placement. Customary care is which assists our Agency in the process of assessing our child an important strategy for avoiding the cultural displacement experiwelfare services and adapting attitudes, policies and practices to enced by Anishinabe children separated from their families, extended become culturally competent as the Agency interacts with Aborigifamilies and communities. While Customary care can be generally nal client populations. Weechi-it-te-win believes that a culturally understood as a traditional approach to caring for children through competent Agency acknowledges and incorporates, at all levels, extended family members in ways that are grounded in the traditions, the importance of culture, assessment of cross-cultural relations, values, teachings, and customs of that child’s community. Customary vigilance towards the dynamics that result from cultural differences, care concepts are rooted in teachings that the Anishinabe care for one the expansion of cultural knowledge and the adaptation of child another from birth to death. Customary care is not merely about foswelfare services to meet culturally unique needs. Cultural comter care but is a way of life that ensures the rights of the Anishinabe petence is considered as a preferred goal for the Agency to strive are adhered to. Customary care is a way of life that ensures natural and achieve and to become culturally competent is recognized as a cultural resiliency and promotes positive cultural identity by way of systematic and developmental process. land base, language, clan, and family. To learn more about Weechi-it-te-win Family Services and their unique service delivery model please visit their website at www.weechi.ca
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