Full Description
Children's participation in child protection has become a burgeoning field of interest for scholars and practitioners in the field of social work, and yet there is no edited volume that weaves together recent international contributions on the topic. This volume fills that gap, beginning with the assumption that children can and should have agency in decisions that affect their lives. Child protection is understood as protection from violence in the family and from violence in wider society. Children and youth may encounter public child protection systems in several instances: during child protection investigations, when children receive support services, during decisions about children's removals from home, and when children are in foster, kin, or residential care. Children may experience systemic violence as a lack of personal and economic security, a lack of access to education, and other factors.
This book features pathways to children and young people's collective participation in changing child protection policies and services in multiple countries through examples of participatory research and practices promoting children and young people's participation in child protection. It highlights the change actions and voices of empowered and marginalized children and youth in various international contexts. The global examples featured in this volume can serve as an inspiration for children and youth, children's rights activists, child protection practitioners, students, scholars, and public policymakers to initiate, design, and implement participatory child protection policies and practices.
Contents
Foreword, by Marit Skivenes
Acknowledgments
Contributor Bios
Chapter 1: Introduction by Katrin Kri%z and Mimi Petersen
PART I: CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS CHANGE AGENTS
Chapter 2: The Change Factory's Participation in Social Work Education in Norway, by Roar Sundby
Chapter 3: Child-directed Child Welfare Research and Development in Denmark, by Mimi Petersen
Chapter 4: Care Leavers' Participation in Designing Child Welfare Services and Policy in Israel, by Talia Meital Schwartz-Tayri and Hadas Lotan
Chapter 5: Children Claiming the Right to Live Without Violence in Nicaragua, by Harry Shier
PART II: PARTICIPATORY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
Chapter 6: The Participation of LGBTQIA+ Children and Youth in Care in the Netherlands, by Rodrigo González Álvarez, Mijntje ten Brummelaar, Kevin R. O. van Mierlo, Gerald P. Mallon and Mónica López López
Chapter 7: Children's Participation in Foster Care in Germany, by Daniela Reimer
Chapter 8: Creating and Crossing Age-related Participation Boundaries in Child Protection in the United States (California), by Megan Canfield, Jenna Gaudette, Emma Frushell and Katrin Kri%z
Chapter 9: Arts-Based Research with Children in Program Evaluation in Spain, by Nuria Fuentes-Peláez, Ainoa Mateos, M. Angels Balsells and Mª Jose Rodrigo
Chapter 10: The "Making My Story"-Project in Brazil, by Monica Vidiz, Lara Naddeo and Debora Vigevani
PART III: CONCLUDING REMARKS
Chapter 11: Concluding Remarks, by Katrin Kri%z and Mimi Petersen
Afterword, by Nigel Patrick Thomas
