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Newcomer Youth Seeking Inclusion and Caring Responses
From: Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth
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Topics in this chapter include: a discussion of known challenges facing newcomer youth, case studies of YPAR programs in 4 provinces, an analysis of these programs’ key finding and a list of actions that could be taken in the future.
Contributors
Rita Isabel Henderson
Rita Henderson, PhD, is an assistant professor and models-of-care scientist in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. Her interests in health inequities range from population health to clinical intervention research and the integration of these. She earned a PhD addressing social impacts of multi-generational trauma, which she carries into her current work.
Anshini Shah
Anshini Shah is a student at St. George’s University, in Grenada, West Indies. She earned her ba in international relations from the University of Calgary. She is interested in using her social science background to assess the influence of colonialism on the health of vulnerable populations
Lynda Ashbourne
Lynda M. Ashbourne, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. She is a registered psychotherapist and couple and family therapist. She conducts research examining how broader social systems and events (cultural influences, marginalization, war) influence relationships and meaning-making in interaction with others.
Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward is an md/msc student in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Rachel’s research interests include medical education and exploring how systemic and institutional structures influence the health and well-being of individuals and populations. She hopes to apply a health inequities lens when entering medical practice and aims to help create health-care systems that are safer for patients and trainees.
Alex Werier
Alex Werier is completing a master’s degree in anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Her thesis examines gender, voice and sound, focusing on the ways in which trans women understand, use or alter their voices.
Cathryn Rodrigues
Cathryn Rodrigues earned a bachelor’s of health sciences from the University of Calgary. She works as a research assistant for the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and on projects involving health promotion, community capacity building, structural violence and homelessness.
Wilfreda E. Thurston
Wilfreda E. Thurston is a professor emerita in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary. She worked in the social service sector, including government services, a women’s centre and a shelter for women. Feminist analysis and advocacy for women’s health and gender equality in medicine and society generally have shaped her career. Her research has included the role of the public health sector in prevention of violence against girls and women, especially those marginalized by racialization.
