Presentations (conference)

Chaplin, J., Ion, A., Sinding, C., Dumbrill, G., Gizzarelli, R., Penney, S., Wright, K., Jones, N., Perkins, A., Robertson, S. (2019, June). Preparing for Critical Practice in Child Welfare: A Collaborative Justice-Focused Educational Program Towards Transformation in Child Welfare. Canadian Association of Social Work Education (CASWE) Conference. Vancouver, Canada.

Yee, J.Y., & Dumbrill, G. C. (2019, April). Courageous leadership and organizational change: Towards equitable outcomes. CIECYR Equity & Inclusivity Symposium 2019, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.

Dumbrill, G., Ion, A., Chaplin, J., Sherry-Kirk, S., Greene, L., Sinding, C., Maikawa, T., et al. (2018). The McMaster BSW with child welfare specialization: The story of its development. 3Voices in Child Welfare Conference. McMaster University, Canada, February 22, 2018.

Greene, S., Ion, A., Muchenje, M., O’Brien-Teengs, D., Carroll, S, Lotfi, M., Dumbrill, G. C. (2018). The Positive Parenting Pilot Project: a community-based HIV research and training response to supporting mothers living with HIV who have child welfare involvement. 3Voices in Child Welfare Conference. McMaster University, Canada, February 22, 2018).

Ion, A., Daly, C., Greene, S., O’Brien-Teengs, D., Dumbrill, G. (2017). Building capacity, strengthening knowledge and skills: Effectiveness of HIV training for child protection workers and social work students in Ontario [poster presentation]. 26th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (CAHR conference). Montreal, Canada, April 6-9, 2017.

Gladstone, J., Damiani-Taraba, G., Dumbrill, G., Koster, A., Leslie, B., and Young, M. (2016, August 31). Client engagement and intervention outcomes: Yes, there is a relationship and here's what it looks like. The 21st ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Calgary, Canada, August 31, 2016.

Greene, S., O’Brien-Teengs, D., Dumbrill, G., Ion, A., Shindler, S., Porter, M., Beaver, K. (2015). Developing an HIV education and training module for child and family service workers in Ontario: Lessons learned from the positive parenting pilot project [poster presentation]. 24th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research. Toronto, Canada, May 2015.

Dumbrill, G. (2014, April). The social construction of "bad parenting" ideologies. Paper presented at the Global Social Science Conference, Hong Kong.

Marquis, B., Vander Kloet, M,. Dumbrill. G. Joshi, A., Lo, W., Rossi, V. (2014, June) Transforming teaching and learning environments to increase inclusion. STLHE 2014: Transforming our teaching and learning experiences. Queens University, Kingston, Canada.

Dumbrill, G. (2013, June). Building theory from service users' definitions of good anti-oppressive practice. Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference. Victoria, Canada.

Dumbrill, G. (2013, April). Learning from service users: What they say, how they say it, and why we all need to listen. Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Symposium. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.

Leslie, B., Gladstone, J, Dumbrill, G., Koster, A., Young, M., & Ismaila, A., A. (2012, September). Effective intervention begins with client engagement. Paper presented at the European Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care for Children and Adolescents (EUSARF), Glasgow, Scotland.

Dumbrill, G. C. (2012, May). Left at the border: Service user perspectives in social work. Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference. Waterloo, Canada.

Gladstone, J., Dumbrill, G., Leslie, B., Koster, A., Young, M., & Ismaili, A. (2011, May). The influence of engaged worker-client relationships on child welfare outcomes. Paper presented at the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER),5th Annual International Conference on Sociology, Athens, Greece.

Dumbrill, G. C. (2010, June). A service users association: The key to anti-oppressive child protection policy and practice. Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies 2010 International Conference on Child Welfare and Child Wellbeing: Putting Children First. Toronto.

Young, M., Gladstone, J., Koster, A., Leslie, B., Dumbrill, G. C., & Ismaili, A. (2010, June). Parent–worker engagement: What it is and how to do it. Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies 2010 International Conference on Child Welfare and Child Wellbeing: Putting Children First. Toronto.

Dumbrill, G. C. (2009, June). A social work service users association: The key to promoting harmony and justice in a world of conflict? Promoting Harmony and Justice in a World of Conflicts: An International Conference on Social Work and Counseling Practice. City University. Hong Kong.

Dumbrill, G. C. (2009, May). A social work service users association: A remedy for social service regulation and privatization? Canadian Association for Social Work Education Annual Conference: Social Work Identity in the age of Interdisciplinarity and Globalization. Carleton University, Ottawa.

Dumbrill, G. C. (2009, April). Balancing power: The need for a child welfare service users’ union. Gender and Child Welfare: 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference Cardiff School of Social Sciences. Cardiff, UK.

Dumbrill, G. C., & Lo, W. (2008, May). Your Policy Our Children: Refugee Parents Speak about the Impact of Canadian Social Policy on their Families. A poster presentation at Symposium 2008. Cultural Diversity and Vulnerable Families: A Bias in Favour of Cultural Competence. University of Quebec in Montreal.

Dumbrill, G. C., & Lo, W. (2007, June). Oppression and anti-oppression in organized spirituality: An example from Christianity. The Second North American Conference on Spirituality and Social Work "Spirituality in Challenging Times: A Resource for Practice, Advocacy, and Self-Care." Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Dumbrill, G. C., & Lo, W. (2007, May). Bridging service users’ and service providers’ knowledge systems: Issues of power. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work Conference, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.

Sin, R., Ross, M., Semley, A., Fortino, J., Carlos, A., Henry, T., Lovelace, L., Balogh, K., Neil, M., Dumbrill, G., & Sinding, C. (2007, May). Facilitating Anti-Oppressive Dialogue through Personal Inquiry: A New Model of Learning for Social Work Practice. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work Conference, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.

Dumbrill G. C. (2006, October). A child welfare service users union: An idea from the reviving end of intervention. Paper presentation at the “Whitaker Field Education Conference: Social Justice In Social Work Education and Practice: Unfolding the Elsewhere and Otherwise.” University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Koster, A., Dumbrill, G. C., Lovell, P., Mulroney, M., Niemi, D., & Rivard, D. (2006, June). Developing a Collaborative Child Welfare Model for Ontario. Poster presentation at the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies and Children’s Mental Health Ontario “working together” conference, Toronto.

Dumbrill, G. C., & Rice-Green, J. (2004, August). Including Indigenous Knowledge in Web-Based Learning. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference of Human Services Information Technology Application, Hong Kong.

Sammon, S., Cho, M., Cosby, R., Dumbrill, G,. Ferreira, C., Lee, B., Palmer, S., Swan, T., Westwood, A., & Young, M. (2004, May). Transforming the social work curriculum? A community, faculty, student collaboration in designing anti-oppression education. A presentation at the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work 2004 Annual Conference, “Social work and place: Confluence and transformation.” Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Rice-Green, J., & Dumbrill, G. C. (2003, June). Developing diverse and inclusive social work knowledge systems. A presentation at the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work 2003 Annual Conference, “Diversity and inclusion: Putting the principles to work.” Halifax, Nova Scotia.

MacFadden, R., Herie, M., Dumbrill, G., & Maiter, S. (2003, May). Thinking and feeling: Building a constructivist, emotionally-oriented model for online education. A presentation at the Nexus Conference, “Connecting teaching, technology and inclusive education.” Toronto, Ontario.

Dumbrill, G. C. (2002, May-June). Child welfare: AOP’s nemesis? A presentation at the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work 2002 Annual Conference, “Anti-oppressive practice and global transformation: Challenges for social work and social welfare.” Toronto, Ontario.

Yee, J. Y., & Dumbrill, G. C. (2000, May). Racism: A forgotten concept in child welfare? A presentation at the Millennium integrated children's conference. Toronto, Ontario.

MacFadden, R. J., Dumbrill, G. C., & Maiter, S. (2000, May). Developing web-based training in child welfare: An early look at the present & future of human services education. A presentation at the Millennium integrated children's conference. Toronto, Ontario.

MacFadden, R. J., Dumbrill, G. C., & Maiter, S. (2000, April). Developing a graduate level Web-based course on cultural competence. A presentation at the conference, “Teaching, learning and research in today's university: Information technology and the university professor.” University of Toronto.

MacFadden, R. J., Maiter, S., & Dumbrill, G. C. (1999, September). Web-based course delivery in a graduate faculty of social work: Crossing the new frontier. A paper presented at Husita-5 Conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Dumbrill, G. C., & Trocmé, N. (1999, February). The social construction of modern child welfare—learning about the present by researching the past. Paper presented at the 1st International interdisciplinary conference on advances in qualitative methods. Edmonton, Alberta.

Maiter, S., & Dumbrill, G. C. (1997, March). Consumer centered child protection services. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Orthopsychiatry Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Dumbrill, G. C., & Maiter, S. (1996, June). Many cultures many solutions: Being competent in the world of diversity. A presentation at the millennium international conference. Toronto, Ontario.

Dumbrill, G. C., Maiter, S., & Mason, V. (1995, May). Consumer empowerment: An out-of-home care example. A presentation at the Child welfare league of America, Atlantic region training conference. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Dumbrill, G. C., Maiter, S., & Mason, V. (1995, May). Consumer-centered practice: Establishing powerful working relationships with the parents of children in care. A presentation at the Growing 95' Conference. Toronto, Ontario.