| Author(s) | Anshini Shah; Lynda Ashbourne; Rachel Ward; Rita Isabel Henderson |
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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
Helene Berman, RN, PhD, is a distinguished university professor emerita at the University of Western Ontario and a fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Her program of research, funded by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (cihr), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (sshrc) and Status of Women Canada, has focused on the subtle and explicit forms of violence in the lives of girls and young women. In recent years, she has extended that work to include boys and young men. With a lengthy history of community-based research, Dr. Berman played a lead role in the establishment of the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion and serves as the Centre’s founding academic director
Anshini Shah
Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao is a Métis counsellor specializing in violence prevention and recovery. She lives on the territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation and is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Montreal. Dr. Richardson is a co-founder of the Centre for Response-Based Practice. Her recent research projects relate to violence prevention with Indigenous youth, women and families. She is the author of Belonging Métis and co-editor of Calling Our Families Home: Métis Experiences with Child Welfare and Failure to Protect: Moving Beyond Gendered Responses. Her work has influenced the development of dignity-driven practice in the Child and Family Services of New South Wales, Australia. She is involved in Indigenous community projects and
Lynda Ashbourne
was twice a delegate to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She is co-authoring a forthcoming book related to Métis social policy.Rachel Ward
Kate Elliott, bsn, mph, md, is a member of the Métis Nation of Greater Victoria. She has a passion for Indigenous youth engagement and traditional beadwork. Elliott possesses an undergraduate degree in nursing and a master’s in public health and social policy from the University of Victoria. Elliott is completing her residency in Indigenous Family Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
Alex Werier
Eugenia Canas, PhD, uses participatory and ethnographic approaches to understand how youth perspectives affect the delivery of health services. She is a founding member of the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion (crhesi), which is dedicated to knowledge generation and translation through partnerships between academia and community organizations. Canas served as National Youth Advisory Board co-coordinator in the Voices against Violence project from 2011 to 2017 and is a post-doctoral associate with the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
