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Those individuals ascribed by children and/or youth to play a significant role in their lives and immediate ecosystem. These individuals may or may not: be connected through biology, reside in the same household, partake in caregiving tasks, etc.
What are Families?
The social environment where young people learn to manage life and where CYCs often interact with them.
What is Life space?
An approach, treatment and/or program that has research outcomes to support its effectiveness.
What is Evidence-based?
Persons from birth to twelve years of age.
What is a child/children?
Presence of difference or variety amongst a socially defined group.
What is Diversity?
Just or characterized by fairness. This treatment can at times differ from everyone having the same treatment.
What is Equitable?
A child’s, youth or family’s or caregiver’s ability to recover and/or adapt effectively from disruptive change, trauma, illness or misfortune without being overwhelmed or acting in dysfunctional ways.
What is Resiliency?
Providing systems of care that recognize and respond to the presence and impact of trauma on children, youth and families.
What is Trauma – informed Practice?
Acknowledges differences between individuals, communities, cultures and that context could and should alter the application of evidence based/informed practice
What is Wise Practice?
An approach to child and youth care practice that focuses on the abilities, skills, resources and cultural and life experiences of children, youth and their families and acknowledges their inherent resiliency.
What is being Strength-based?
The Interpersonal in-between space that the practitioner shares with the child, youth and their family where care provision and solutions to adversity are negotiated; with each party having their own expertise that they can bring to the process.
What is Co-creation?
One of the four dimensions of the life space. It refers to hopes, dreams and imagination as well as the online world.
What is Virtual Space?
It is defined by a person's gender, race, social class, age, ability, religion, sexual orientation, and geographic location. Each group membership confers a certain set of social roles and rules, power, and privilege (or lack of), which heavily influence our identity and how we see the world.
What is a person's Social Location?
Ways of working which emerged from the juvenile justice system involve forming healthy relationships and repairing broken ones through discussion with all parties who harm and are harmed during a conflict or criminal activity.
What is Restorative Practice?
Actions taken by CYC practitioners to ensure that all children, youth, and their families views are heard and considered as integral to the decision-making process that directly affects them, and builds the capacity for children, youth and their families to know about, seek out, and to use community services and resources.
What is Advocacy?
Emphasizes the interaction between people and their physical and social environments, including cultural and political settings. This perspective considers how institutional systems such as justice, health, child welfare, and education can help or restrict the growth and development of children and youth.
What is the Ecological perspective ?
The context within which child and youth care practice occurs. It includes physical, social, emotional, cultural and ideological factors.
What is the Therapeutic milieu?
A process of using past experiences such as those who raised us, our geographical location, culture & so much more, to create our individualized lens that guides us in how we think about the world, people and our experiences in it.
What is Meaning-making?
An agreement regarding the appropriate and acceptable care and treatment of children and youth, signed by all participating nations, with the exception of the United States of America.
What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child?
Includes the use of components of counselling theories, approaches and techniques to model healthy communications practices and to intentionally support the healing and overall wellbeing of children, youth and their families.
What is Therapeutic Practice?
By understanding the behaviours and beliefs prevalent during any stage of human growth and capability, you can determine what stage the other person is in and how to create learning and support for growth into the next stage.
What is being Developmentally responsive?
A concept used to describe the ways in which various aspects of identity interconnect on multiple and often simultaneous levels and can form interlocking systems of oppression.
What is Intersectionality?
A mindful approach to practice where the child and youth care practitioner provides co-created, child-centred and responsive care that meets the needs of children, youth and their families and leads to moments of growth and development.
What is the Relational Approach/Practice?
An approach that involves asking the recipient of care what is right in their life space and that they would like to build upon for their future. This approach acknowledges: Possibility; Collective Experience; Culture as central feature in 28 well-being; and Civic action (political rather than clinical).
What is Healing-centred engagement?
The commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique for redressing the power imbalances, and being flexible and humble enough to say that I do not know when one truly does not know, and to search for and access resources that might enhance the care.
What is Cultural humility?