Child and Youth Care

Examines a broad range of structural, institutional and ideological factors common across developed nations, and their impacts, to interrogate how poverty in childhood is conceptualized and operationalized in policy and to forge a radical pathway for an alternative future.

Covers numerous issues such as: child welfare, child maltreatment, and responses to child maltreatment, and current issues in social care including mandated reporting and evidence-based policy prevention and preservation. Looks at how to engage children and families at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

Addressing the challenges and issues of the child welfare system reviewing key topics such as child development, resilience theories, current services and potential best practice internationally, family law, Indigenous child welfare and more.

Discusses the numerous barriers and challenges for children who are vulnerable to exploitation, as well as for survivors striving to leave the sex industry. Includes gut-wrenching stories from survivors, social workers, police officers, lawmakers, and activists.

Offers guidance for child welfare and youth care professionals with information about trans or gender expansive identities; including guidance on relationships, discrimination, mental health, foster care and homelessness.

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Break the cycle of at-risk behavior by engaging adolescents and their families in home, school, and community contexts. Exploring multigenerational patterns that shape the lives of poor and ethnic minority adolescents and present innovative strategies for intervening beyond the walls of the agency or clinic. Includes case materials.

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Examines child welfare practices in kinship care, FASD, homelessness, aging out of the system, and transitions for rural youth leaving care. Discusses renewing and decolonizing child welfare work, anti-oppressive practices, the historical legacy of the 60s Scoop, and the needs of marginalized and vulnerable children.

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During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households. This book delves into Colleen Cardinal's journey growing up in a non- Indigenous household as a 60s Scoop adoptee and is a story that informs the narrative on missing and murdered Indigenous women, colonial violence, racism and the Indigenous child welfare system.