Vincent Mousseau

The Government of Canada launched the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program in 2008 to strengthen Canada’s ability to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and/or engineering and health.

The President’s Awards are intended to recognize the high academic achievements of students who have successfully been awarded major scholarships from the Tri-agency doctoral competitions.

The objectives of this scholarship are to stimulate student interest in humanities and social sciences, arts and literature research, and to support research excellence by providing the best applicants with financial assistance to undertake or pursue a master’s research program in humanities and social sciences, arts and literature fields.

The Laurent McCutcheon scholarship is an excellence scholarship for master’s students whose research subject is the realities of people of sexual diversity and the plurality of gender identities and expressions (LGBTQ2+).

he CGS M program provides financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in an eligible master’s program in Canada. This support allows these scholars to fully concentrate on their studies in their chosen fields.

Several awards, valued at up to $15,000 per year and renewable for two years, are awarded annually to full-time undergraduate students enrolled in Year Two of any degree program. The award is based on a combination of academic achievement, financial need, and community service.

From a friendly meeting between colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic, our exchanges have developed into strategies of resistance and resilience. In this spirit, and based on our respective personal experiences, we invite you to a privileged and intimate conversation between friends around the “black condition” (Ndiaye, 2008) in social work as we perceive it. We will discuss the ways in which we navigate the sometimes hostile institutions that surround us, but where we refuse to be defined by the treatment of others. In our own voices, we share our observations, our victories, our frustrations, our concerns and our successes, without reservation or alternating language codes, even though they may be difficult for some people to hear. In a fishbowl style of discussion, we hope that the intimacy we share will become a space for reflection and (un)learning for all.

Copresented with Charlène Lusikila, Caroline Foray, Jessica Gilles, Maryam Diakho

Bilingual, diverse in origin, and culturally rich, Montréal’s Black queer and trans communities have played an active role in making our city the vibrant metropolis that it is today. Despite these massive contributions, though, there is still a systemic underrepresentation of Black folks who are accessing services at organizations like RÉZO. The Kominote project set out to understand this underrepresentation. This community-run initiative consulted a vast array of Black guys who are into guys and non-binary folks to see how we could better address their needs and make our services safer and more accessible to them. The results that stemmed from this community needs assessment encourage us to think critically about the role that 2SLGBTQ+ organizations play in maintaining white supremacy—often without even being aware of it—and allow us to reflect on how we can do better to ensure that all members of our communities feel represented by our service offerings. This presentation will provide an overview of our theoretical framework, methodology, as well as the results of the study and the concrete actions that we plan to take to implement the recommendations of this report.

Fall 2022
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Winter 2022
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Winter 2022
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Nova Scotia College of Social Workers

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Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

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Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec