A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH IN COMBATING DUAL PANDEMICS BY NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIAL WORKERS
For people in the African Nova Scotian community, the year 2020 will be remembered as the year of battling dual pandemics: the COVID-19 pandemic and the anti-Black racism pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced everyone into a different way of living where sanitizing hands, wearing a mask, and connecting virtually for work and with loved ones for communication and play is the new normal. The horrific state violence that led to the murder of George Floyd and the serious injury of Jacob Blake, as well as other traumas, social injustices and blatant acts of anti-Black racism in both Canada and the United States have brought the pandemic of racism to the forefront and to the attention of the wider community, locally and globally.
20 Connection | Fall 2020
Since the formation of the Association of Black Social Workers (ABSW) in 1979, the organization has sought to address social injustices in the African Nova Scotian community through their volunteer group of Black social workers and human service workers.
