Priscilla Day
Priscilla
A. Day, Anishinaabe, MSW, Ed.D. is an enrolled member
of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe from the Leech Lake
Reservation. Day received her Bachelor’s degree from
Bemidji State University, her MSW in 1991 from the
University of Minnesota Duluth and her Ed.D. from the
University of Minnesota in 1999. She is the mother of
three adult children. She is active on her home
reservation and in 2009 was appointed by the Tribal
Council as Chair of the Leech Lake Tribal College
Board of Trustees.
Day
is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Minnesota
Duluth where she
has worked for 17 years. In 2006, she became the
Principal Investigator and Director for the Center
for Regional and Child Welfare Studies
that offers
students scholarships to train and work in the field of
child welfare.
Dr. Day co-created a model of diversity education called
"Cross Cultural Explorations: Learning Circles" that is
offered as an elective in her department of social work.
She has done numerous presentations on cultural competence
including indigenous cultural competence, organizational
cultural competence, and working effectively with diverse
groups. Her research, “What does it take to raise a healthy
Anishinaabe child?” can be found at Raising Healthy Anishinaabeg
Children.
Day
is a member of the Council of Social Work Educators
(CSWE) and
served on its Board of Directors from 2002-2005. She is
a member of the American Indian/Alaska Native CSWE Task
Force which produced a report she co-presented to the
CSWE Board of Directors, Fall 2009, on the status of
American Indian/Alaska Natives in social work education.
She is continuing to work on the recommendations in
hopes of increasing the numbers of American
Indian/Alaska Natives that choose social work and social
work education as a career. She is a member and
co-president of the American Indian/Alaska Native Social
Work Educators.
Day’s awards
include the “Significant Achievements” TRIO Award that
honors those who have made significant lifetime
achievements and the "Woman of Distinction" Leadership
Award given by the YWCA of Duluth Minnesota to honor women
who have made significant contributions to the Duluth
community and region.
She has written
numerous articles on issues related to American Indian
families. Two of her recent works are book chapters
Day PA,
“American Indian
Elders in Nursing Homes”
in
Social Work Practice with Ethnically and
Racially Diverse Nursing Home Residents and Their
Families,
Patricia
Kolb, Editor, Columbia Press, New York, NY, 2007
Day PA, “Leadership from an American Indian Perspective”
in
Women of Color on the Rise: Leadership and
Administration in Social Work Education.
Halaevalu
F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi, &
Wilma Peebles-Wilkens, Editors, Columbia University
Press. New York, NY, 2009.
Several of Dr. Day’s publications are available through the
University of Minnesota Duluth Department of Social Work
website:
Day PA,
(2007).
American Indian Elders. In P. J. Kolb,
(Ed.), Social Work
Practice with Ethnically and Racially Diverse Nursing Home
Residents and Their Families (pp. 41-71).
New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Tellett A & Day PA (2008).
“Creating University and Tribal Community Collaborations”,
http://www.bemaadizing.org/2008/04/21/creating-university-and-tribal-community-collaborations/
Day
PA, & Tellett A.
“Minnesota Anishinaabe: Nations and People-An
Information and Resource Manual”.
Department of Social Work, University of Minnesota-Duluth,
MN, 2002. (http://www.d.umn.edu/sw/cw/cc/AmericanIndianContent.html)
Day,
PA.,
A Guide to Cultural Competency, Department of
Social Work, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN,
1994.
http://www.d.umn.edu/sw/culturalcomp/culcomp.html