TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting youth voice in Indian country
AU - Caringi, James C.
AU - Klika, Bart
AU - Zimmerman, Marilyn
AU - Trautman, Ashley
AU - van den Pol, Rick
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is funded in part from a grant from the United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (FIRE: 2009-TY-FX-0010 ).
Funding Information:
In social work, our focus is often on “helping” youth. However, my practice experience, and likely that of others, is filled with examples of how “helping” can silence youth voice, albeit with the best intentions. The value, power, and importance of youth voice cannot be overstated. Youth offer a lens free of the assumptions and biases of professional social workers. Perhaps most importantly youth are open to the power of extreme possibility, the type of possibility often needed to solve the complex problems in their lives today. The failure to include the voices of those children we work with is troubling and may very well be a contributing factor to the lack of success of many programs aimed at improving their lives. To illustrate the importance of youth voice I (Jim Caringi) will use my experience in Alaska Native Communities to set the stage for examining place, power, and possibility in social work practice with youth. Further, through examination of a community-based participatory research project focused on youth voice funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, joined by colleagues from the Institute for Educational Research and Service (IERS) and the National Native Children's Trauma Center (NNCTC), we describe how research can also promote and potentially silence youth voice in Indian Country. My colleagues and I offer a description of the research process, design, preliminary results, and a critical examination of how our process both promotes and silences the voice of youth in Indian Country.
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - In social work, our focus is often on "helping" youth. However, our practice experience is filled with examples of how "helping" can silence youth voice, albeit with the best intentions. The value, power, and importance of youth voice cannot be understated. The lack of inclusion of the voices of those children we work with is troubling and may very well be a contributing factor to the lack of success of many programs aimed at improving the lives of the youth we work with. To illustrate the importance of youth voice I will use my experience in Alaska Native Communities to set the stage for examining place, power, and possibility in social work practice with youth. Further, through examination of a community based participatory research project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, joined by colleagues from the Institute for Educational Research and Service (IERS) and the National Native Children's Trauma Center (NNCTC), I will describe how research can also promote and potentially silence youth voice in Indian Country. My colleagues and I offer a description of the research process, design, preliminary results, and a critical examination of how our process both promotes and silences the voice of youth in Indian Country.
AB - In social work, our focus is often on "helping" youth. However, our practice experience is filled with examples of how "helping" can silence youth voice, albeit with the best intentions. The value, power, and importance of youth voice cannot be understated. The lack of inclusion of the voices of those children we work with is troubling and may very well be a contributing factor to the lack of success of many programs aimed at improving the lives of the youth we work with. To illustrate the importance of youth voice I will use my experience in Alaska Native Communities to set the stage for examining place, power, and possibility in social work practice with youth. Further, through examination of a community based participatory research project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, joined by colleagues from the Institute for Educational Research and Service (IERS) and the National Native Children's Trauma Center (NNCTC), I will describe how research can also promote and potentially silence youth voice in Indian Country. My colleagues and I offer a description of the research process, design, preliminary results, and a critical examination of how our process both promotes and silences the voice of youth in Indian Country.
KW - Alaska Native youth
KW - Community based participatory research
KW - Native youth
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892540308&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.04.006
DO - 10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.04.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84892540308
SN - 0190-7409
VL - 35
SP - 1206
EP - 1211
JO - Children and Youth Services Review
JF - Children and Youth Services Review
IS - 8
ER -