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Mac Saulis

Aboriginal Worldview – A Conversation with Professor Mac Saulis

Professor Malcolm Saulis, is the co-ordinator of the Wilfred Laurier University Faculty of Social Work – Aboriginal Field of Study program and a First Nations scholar. He has a wise sense for the substantial difference between the Aboriginal and European world view. The following is an edited conversation in which Mac describes these differences by explaining the deep Aboriginal connection to Creation.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.