We are working to compile our activities since 2017. If you’d like to add your initiative to this list, please let us know.

ACTIVITIES

2025 Events

July 2025

Building Bridges: Collaborative event with Kababayan Multicultural Centre (Toronto)

Rizza Solis (Executive Director, Kababayan Multicultural Centre – KMC), Ruth Marie Wilson (Board of Director, KMC and Assistant Professor, King’s College) and Dr. Monica Anne Batac (University of Manitoba) hosted a full-day engagement at the Parkdale office. Photos and more details to come.

July 2025

FCSCWN hosted its first Writing Retreat (Ottawa) 

Hosted by Drs. Monica Anne Batac (University of Manitoba) and Ilyan Ferrer (Carleton University), the network hosted its first full-week writing retreat in the nation’s capital. We began with two full days of working meetings, then shifted to full-day writing sessions. Photos and more details to come.

Feb 2025

FCSCWN hosted The Contours of Filipino Social Work Praxis in the Canadian Diaspora Virtual Symposium

Hosted on the weekend of February 7th, the Contours of Filipino Social Work Praxis in the Canadian Diaspora Virtual Symposium was the first academic conference for FCSCWN. We invited Filipino-Canadian scholars and practitioners in all stages of their careers (including undergraduate and graduate student scholars, community-based researchers, service providers, community organizers) to gather for critical kuwentuhan (storytelling) on the emerging field of Filipino-Canadian social work.

 

Missed the symposium?

  • Watch The Honourable Wanda Thomas Bernard’s  (PhD, C.M., O.N.S Senator – Nova Scotia (East Preston)) Keynote here.
  • Take a look at the program and list of guests and speakers here.