Child and Youth Care across Sectors aims to reflect the changing field by capturing a diverse array of themes and issues through an inclusive framework. In Volume 2, the contributors continue the discussion on sectors and contexts of child and youth care, with an emphasis on giving space and voice to different ways of thinking about and describing the field. Focusing on acknowledging and confronting the complex issues within child and youth care, this new volume includes groundbreaking chapters on pertinent topics from homelessness to immigration, antiracism, African-centred praxis, and Indigenous ways of being. Expanding from the first volume, this text explores additional settings of child and youth care, including hospitals, schools, day treatment programs, and the complicated youth criminal justice sector. As the field of child and youth care continues to evolve, this timely and thought-provoking text will be vital for students, scholars, and practitioners in child and youth care, in Canada and abroad. FEATURES incorporates discussions on Canada’s northern provinces and territories,specifically Labrador and Nunavut, in child and youth care contexts and regions typically neglected in the field includes chapters centering Indigenous ways of being and thinking, written by Indigenous scholars Table of Contents Introduction Kiaras Gharabaghi and Grant Charles Chapter 1: Being Indigenous is not a Risk Factor: A Sisters Rising Story of Resurgence and Sovereignty Sandrina deFinney, Anna Chadwick, Chantal Adams, Shantelle Moreno, Angela Scott, and Shezell Rae Sam Chapter 2: Mino-Bimaadiziwin Wiidookodaadiwag (Helping Each Other Through the Good Life): Implications for Research and Practice with Indigenous Communities Nicole Ineese-Nash Chapter 3: Towards a Framework of African-Centered Child and Youth Care Praxis Julian Hasford, Peter Amponsah, Travonne Edwards, and Juanita Stephen Chapter 4: Newcomer, Immigration, and Settlement Sectors Francis Hare Chapter 5: Youth Homelessness and Shelter Settings Hans Skott-Myhre Chapter 6: Child and Youth Care in the North Heather Modlin and Kelly Shaw Chapter 7: Hospital-Based Child and Youth Care Practice Agnes Quittard Chapter 8: School-Based Child and Youth Care Practice: A Case Study of Ontario Saira Batasar-Johnie and Kiaras Gharabaghi Chapter 9: Child and Youth Care Practice in Day Treatment Settings Jessica Carrier and Kiaras Gharabaghi Chapter 10: Child and Youth Care and the Criminal Justice System Ashley Quinn and Grant Charles Chapter 11: The Other, Forgotten, Hidden, Current, and Future Settings of Child and Youth Care Practice Kiaras Gharabaghi and Grant Charles About the Editor: Kiaras Gharabaghi is the Director and Associate Professor of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Child and Youth Care, specializing in child and youth care ethics, organizational change, and international practice. He has over 20 years of front-line experience in managing children’s mental health, welfare, and homelessness, and was recently appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services to serve on an expert panel that reviews all residential services in the province. He is the Co-editor of the popular journal Child and Youth Services and a regular columnist for the International Child and Youth Care Network.
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