Creating Places of Belonging: Expanding Notions of Permanency with Indigenous Youth in Care

  • Sandrina de Finney School of Child and Youth Care University of Victoria
  • Lara di Tomasso

Résumé

This paper calls for creative pathways of engagement that delineate places of belonging for and with Indigenous youth in care. It draws on two community-based research studies conducted in British Columbia, with urban and off-reserve Indigenous youth to contextualize and extend understanding of permanency for Indigenous youth in care. Our discussion explores permanency in relation to both Western understandings of government care, guardianship, and adoptions, and Indigenous customary caregiving and cultural planning for cultural permanency, such as naming and coming home ceremonies, custom adoptions, and kinship care.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Sandrina de Finney, School of Child and Youth Care University of Victoria
Associate Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, and Research Advisor for the Siem Smun'eem Indigenous Child Wellbeing Network
Publié-e
2015-02-26
Comment citer
de Finney, S., & di Tomasso, L. (2015). Creating Places of Belonging: Expanding Notions of Permanency with Indigenous Youth in Care. Revue Des Enfants Et Des Familles Des Premiers Peuples, 10(1), 63-85. Consulté à l’adresse https://fpcfr.com/index.php/FPCFR/article/view/246