Dis[s]curse[if] Challenges: Professional Conversations in Child and Youth Care in Fluid Modernity

Abstract

what we sometimes refer to as the child and youth care "academy", challenged ourselves to work with language forms that signal our knowledge of, and affection for, the history, the geneology, of the ideas that support our practices and also show that we can speak the vernacular. New turns of phrase, new ways of employing words that for many of us have had fixed meanings, now force us to meet these words again in different guises, and so create the need for a reacquaintance, for hearing and seeing again in a different way, what we thought we knew:

“We Need to Talk About It!”: Doing CYC as Politicized Praxis

“…These effects are particularly salient for CYC practice. In Canada, for example, Indigenous children constitute approximately 9% of the child population but roughly half of all children in residential care (Child Welfare League of Canada, 2003;Bell, 2012;Trocmé, Knoke, & Blackstock, 2004) and in the justice system (Artz, 2012;Fechter-Leggett & O'Brien, 2010). Yet, social services for First Nations are underfunded by 20%-25% as compared to those for non-Aboriginal Canadian children (Trocmé et al, 2004).…”